The West Virginia Hot Dog Blog

Cock of the Walk is a brand new restaurant that specializes primarily in hot wings. It shares space (but thankfully, not breathing air) with...

Good news travels fast. Yesterday a new hot dog stand opened for business in Kanawha City. This evening two people emailed with the news, bu...

Humbled is not the right word for how this makes me feel. Humbled Squared maybe. The bloggers extraordinaire over at Hillbilly Savants hav...

Despite winning the Weenie Award for having Charleston's best weenie in 2006, Swiftwater Cafe in downtown Charleston only merited a 4 W...

I was cruising through west-central Huntington today and snapped this photo: (Thanks for the heads-up, TFG) For those who do not remember, ...

The organizers of the Third Annual West Virginia Hot Dog Festival have got a brand new website with all of the information on this year...

I've been getting mail about Bob's for a long time and I was glad when a recent trip to the mountains afforded me the opportunity to...

Last month it was a bad encounter at this HDJ that gave the initial inspiration for second chance month at WVhotdogs.com. I have eaten here...

Skeenies Hot Dogs was one of the very first HDJs that was reviewed on the WV Dog Blog. It scored a 4 Weenie rank, primarily because you don...

"You've gotta come to the cruise-in this weekend and try our Kruzer Dogs" said email after email. The Klassy Kruzers Car Club ...

Actually, this is a third chance review. A while back, Stanton gave the restaurant that arguably has Huntington's most iconic and memora...

A brand new building: Something that usually doesn't shout "great hot dogs here!" As a general rule, the best WVHDs are found ...

A little known fact about WVhotdogs.com is that our corporate charter was originally drafted to closely resemble the Texas State Constitutio...

I've written before of the charming main street in Buckhannon, West Virginia. A big part of the charm of the place is the old buildings...

When we came up with the idea to make June "Second Chance Month" it was primarily to give those HDJs that just missed a second cha...

For your listening pleasure, our June DogCast is now available for download . In this edition: Chris James talks about the whole "sauce...

If I were doing reviews of West Virginia towns instead of West Virginia hot dogs, I would give Buckhannon a Five Weenie rank. It has everyth...

At WVhotdogs.com, June is a month of second chances. One HDJ in particular has shown a willingness to take constructive criticism from a bad...

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...