The West Virginia Hot Dog Blog

Let's wrap this up, shall we? After struggling to find HDJs on Charleston's West Side, I have given up trying to find lesser kno...

Unfortunately this round is going to be a walkover, since I made 5 visits to Sistah's Rib Shack at lunch time and twice at dinner time a...

We reviewed Sam's Hot Dog Stand's West Side location on its very first day of business in 2008. You can read that review here . Not ...

The first round of our West Side HDJ Death Match pits the venerable Smokehouse - the oldest remaining HDJ on the West Side against the newes...

After taking a little time off following the Downtown Charleston HDJ Death Match, reader complaints have motivated us to get back to work. O...

After it had been resurrected to fight another day, you had to be rooting for The Fresh Seafood Company to complete the comeback by knocking...

Sam's Hot Dog LOOKS great, but... First, before ugly rumors get started, there is NO HDJ Death Match curse. It is complete happensta...

WVHotDogs.com admittedly has a love/hate relationship with Sam's Hot Dog Stand. Here are some of the reasons we love and hate them: Lo...

After defeating Diana's Snack Bar and then winning in two walkovers of HDJs who failed to make an entry, The Fresh Seafood Company now h...

Well, heck. After a week off to allow my triglycerides to recover, I set out on a recon mission for the next round of our Downtown Charles...

Not that anyone at WVHotDogs.com is going to shed a tear about it, but why were we the last to know that the Town Center Maggie Moo's st...

Yesterday's winner, The Fresh Seafood Company - a small locally owned establishment - today takes on a corporate giant: Dairy Queen. N...

The Fresh Seafood Company Today we have yesterday's survivor (just barely) Diana's Snack Bar on Summers Street taking on The Fre...

Round 1 pits Diana's Snack Bar against Donna's Cafe. Donna's Cafe sits in the building formerly known as "The Carbon Buil...

At WVHotDogs.com we believe that the single most important questions that we face as a society is "who has the best hot dog in town?...

The town of Welch in McDowell County, West Virginia has seen its share of changes over the years. This once thriving city that was the e...

Almost as soon as I began the West Virginia Hot Dog Blog in 2006, people began to write in about their favorite Hot Dog Joints in places all...

One small but very important piece of legislation that was passed in the recently concluded regular session of the West Virginia Legislature...

When we were contacted by The Travel Channel about doing a West Virginia Hot Dog segment for the "Pit Stops" portion of their New...

Salem has long been on the list of places that was in need of a visit to research any hot dog joints that it may home too. I had already mad...