The West Virginia Hot Dog Blog

Sitting at the foot of the 35th Street bridge, Murad's was Charleston's first real sports bar, and remains arguably the best such jo...

A common theme in Huntington politics are the real and perceived inequities that exist between the East End, Downtown/South Side, and West H...

With the most charming atrium dining area on the East End of Charleston, you might think the Allspice Cafe would be a well-known dining dest...

No one could argue with the suggestion that there ain't much in Scary, a little town about half way between St. Albans and Scott Depot o...

I drive by Rally's on Washington Street East nearly every day. I never have considered it to be anything resembling a hot dog joint, but...

Life has been something of a mixed bag in East Huntington for the past decade or so. On one hand, St. Mary's Hospital has brought jobs a...

Loudendale , for most West Virginians, is just the community you drive through on the way to Kanawha State Forest. But for those of us who k...

In a magnanimous gesture of mercy, the WV Hot Dogs team will be providing a second chance to HDJs that scored disappointing marks on their f...

While most of the co-eds at Marshall probably think of Hillbilly Hot Dogs as that kitschy place near campus on 3rd Ave.; most local folk, ho...

After overcoming some technical difficulties, DogCast Number 2 is now available for your listening pleasure. In this edition: Bill Haley ...

OSKEES Family Restaurant is a recent addition to the Kanawha Valley. Sitting alongside MacCorkle Avenue in the very same space where Mayberr...

As I told you before , a certain professor at Marshall University has offered extra credit to any student who will write an essay about the ...

Read this post from Huntington Blogger Jelly Filled .

One of the fixtures of Appalachian cuisine is the family-owned dairy bar. Many of these locations make their own ice cream, have a walk-up w...

In the midst of all of the many diverse food offerings at the Flatwoods exit of I79 sits a little sign that attempts to direct part of the v...

Another case of a HDJ that makes us wait until Spring , I had waited since last November for the the Gassaway Dairy Queen to reopen because ...

Some of you will no doubt be wondering why on earth I'm reviewing this chain when so many better HDJ's exist in North Central WV. T...

When I found out in November that I would be traveling to Atlanta for a meeting in April, I immediately made my plans to visit one of the mo...

Never one to buck a fad or a trend, I have decided that this blog needs to do a podcast. What could be more fun than a podcast about hot dog...

Many Fairmont locals will, no doubt, recognize this eatery. If not now, since it has changed hands, then perhaps when it was B&L Hot D...