The West Virginia Hot Dog Blog

Thanks to the magic of youtube, we can now relive some of the most memorable hot dog commercials of all time. Today we will look at a couple...

Maple Valley Meats reminds you a lot of those general stores/restaurants your find in some of the West Virginia state parks in terms of the ...

There are some hot dog chains/franchises that have become the accepted standard bearer for hot dog quality in their respective localities. W...

A while back an AP article aired in several small town WV newspapers about WVHotDogs.com and this blog. It spawned a lot of suggestions for ...

When T&L Hot Dogs closed and/or consolidated some of their locations in the Harrison County area, one of the casualties was the location...

Rumors of our demise have been greatly exaggerated. While October was just about the slowest month on record for hot dog reviews, I assure y...

Clarksburg's Hometown Hot Dogs is housed in a building that could easily win an award for "Most Nondescript". The small brick...

We often get letters from expatriate Mountaineers who have run across our site and want to thank us for reminding them of the hot dogs of th...

I continue my review of the Grafton area HDJs with another stop along Route 50 with a trip to the Dairy King, which sits within several yar...

I am forever getting email from folks, mostly expatriates in faraway lands, that are looking for authentic WVHD chili recipes. We've dec...

Biggie's, which sits along U.S. Route 50 heading towards downtown Grafton, gets your attention immediately when you near it; not necessa...

Some WV Hot Dog Blog fans may be old enough to recall that almost an entire generation of WVians in the 1940s-1960s moved to Ohio to find wo...

I recently ventured to Grafton in a hunt of all of the known HDJs in town. My first stop bought me to the Grafton Dairy Queen. I had passed ...

Right off of exit 115 of I-179 rests the small township of Quiet Dell, home of the Sports Grille. A sign for the Sports Grille can be easily...

An alert reader of WVHotDogs.com recently sent word that a new HDJ had appeared in the Morgantown area, but the thing that stood out about t...

Lodge #78 of the Fraternal Order of Police opened not all that long ago at the former Jim Reid’s restaurant in Nutter Fort. Jim Reid’s alwa...

So, I get drafted by the Band Boosters of the high school where my daughter is in the band to volunteer in the concession stand at Laidley F...

Here are some hot dog updates from in and around the Jewel City: Chili Fest: One of the chili vendors (can't remember who) thought it wo...

In July our fair city was paid a visit by hot dog royalty: Paul, of "I am an American and I eat Hot Dogs" fame came to town with ...

We would have never, ever found this little HDJ if a reader hadn't emailed us. In the out of the way town of Cedar Grove, inside an obsc...