The West Virginia Hot Dog Blog

Not to be confused with M&M Dairy Bell in Chesapeake , OH, this Dairy Belle is a recent refugee from the Dairy Queen empire. It sits rig...

Across Washington Street from CAMC General Division sits this little building that has houses numerous incarnations of numerous restaurants ...

Reader Jeff Russell needs our help. Especially those in Morgantown or those with Morgantown connections that date back to the 1960's: ...

I got an email the other day from someone who said that the South Charleston Dairy Bar now offers an New England Style bun as an upgrade. Ha...

Pop Quiz: How can a hot dog have no chili or slaw and still earn a Five-Weenie rating on this blog? (You will find the answer is at the end ...

I don't know why, but this blog is definitely getting more visitors from places with different hot dog cultures. I've gotten a whole...

By most definitions of the word, G. D. Ritzy's in Huntington is a pretty cool place to eat. The place is decorated in the fashion of a ...

When I went in search of Kenny's , I passed this nice and neat little restaurant on the road to West Hamlin just outside the Real Hamlin...

Over the mountain from Hamlin, the county seat of Lincoln county and hometown of Chuck Yeager, is West Hamlin. Now I'm not sure of the c...

A while back a reporter from Asheville, NC wrote to ask some questions about WV hot dogs and if I had any theories as to why slaw was a typi...

Kenova, for the geographically challenged among us, is the furthest west one can go in the state of West Virginia without getting wet. The n...

I think I still have a hangover from the big blogiversary blowout and I haven't heard from Chris or Kevin since the party. I hope they g...

The Pour House Sports Bar is located near the intersection of Rt. 25 and Big Tyler Road in a building that began as a garden center and then...

I thought as a final blogiversary post I would share some of the email we've received. So are really pretty cool. First, there's th...

10. People look at you strangely when you take pictures of your food. I'd like to tell you that I got over being stared at, but frankly...

Thanks to Chris working overtime and Kevin coming on board at the right time, we were able to successfully meet our goal to have 100 HDJ rev...

You just never know. Good WVHDs sometimes live in the most unlikely places. That's why I wasn't too skeptical when someone wrote and...

Located at the mouth of Scary Creek just of the St. Albans exit of I64, this little 50's style diner serves up a good food, friendly ser...

As you might expect, the gang at WVhotdogs.com gets bombarded with friendly recommendations regarding the quality of hot dogs at all sorts o...

Hanks Deli occupies an inside corner location in the, now largely defunct, Middletown Mall. It has a rather unassuming styling and decor, wi...