The West Virginia Hot Dog Blog

The 2009 North Central Region winners for the Weenie Awards contains some returning faves and a couple of new entries, including a new winne...

Due to severe budget cutbacks at WVHotDogs.com, we have had to restrict the far-flung tasting junkets of our Weenie Wonks. Their loss is you...

For the second year running, Swiftwater Cafe takes the prize for Best Downtown Hot Dog Joint in Charleston . The decision wasn't as eas...

Once again Huntington tried to play host to the West Virginia Hot Dog Festival. This year's event featured 9 hot dog joints, one wiener ...

While Big Daddy in still recovering from el dio de los perros and Stanton is fighting a Kazakhstani spambot (apparently the blog "iss ...

On July 18th downtown Clarksburg played host to the first annual " Day of the Dog ", which was a fund raising event to benefit the...

I had been reminded that I was far behind on conducting a review for the blog, so I was eager to get on the road for an impromptu business t...

Here's to Joey Chestnut for his third straight Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest title. 68 hot dogs in 10 minutes! It was an am...

Yes indeedy it's time for the 2009 Weenie Awards! Soon our wayward Weenie Wonks will be returning from their far-flung travels into the ...

While I like my homemade WV weenies to be as local as possible, in the name of fairness I figured that I'd let some out-of-state product...

In no order at all, here are some of my observations and comparisons of Utilitarian Dogs, Genteel Dogs and Artisan Dogs. Feel free to add yo...

While certainly a minority in the WVHD world, our discussion of hot dog classes can't overlook the hoity-toitiest of the species. These ...

Genteel ( jen-teel ' ) - adjective - 1. Striving to convey a manner or appearance of refinement and respectability. Genteel Dogs are t...

While not exactly snowflake-like, it isn't often that you find perfectly similar West Virginia hot dogs at two HDJs. Just the variation ...

Enough was enough: I had to intervene to help fallen (or at least falling) comrades from their wandering in the desert. You see, ever since ...

Here is a video of a guy named Sean eating the Homewrecker from HillBilly Hot Dogs. That's a 3.5 lbs dawg featuring a 1 lb weenie toppe...

I had heard that there was a new HDJ in Marmet that serves yellow slaw. After making one or two fruitless trips (once I couldn't find it...

I ran across this charming old building while cruising on Route 19 one day while killing some time between meetings. Ironically, it's l...

Three years ago, before the Weenie Rating System had even been invented, I reviewed Whitey's Sandwich Shop in North Charleston. I reprin...

In April we will be revisiting some HDJs that have already been reviewed. The reason for the revisit might be that we felt they could do bet...