The West Virginia Hot Dog Blog

(OK, I have a confession: When Facebook user Ranson J Stuck nagged me to try the hot dogs at a place called "Suppers to Go" , I t...

When Stanton relayed to me that we had a request to review Mumsey's Iron Skillet in Richwood I was excited to check it out. I had ea...

A couple of weeks ago, Weenie Wonk H.C. Paine mentioned that he had tried to catch this new HDJ open but had to settle for a Montgomery...

Let's take a little trip through the annals of the WV Hot Dog Blog, shall we? Many years ago we reviewed Shaar's Bar and Grill an...

    It's the Citgo station across W.Va. 10 from the Kegley Post Office.  It was an easy choice for me to review one of my favori...

      I've heard quite a bit of hype about the dogs at Rayetta's Lunchbox in downtown Marlinton, but I have never, ever been able ...

I was very excited about checking out Dogs on the Run, a newer hot-dog joint in London, W.Va., whose dogs I had yet to try. However, ...

It took us 6 years to get to Fat Eddie's. After hundreds of emails claiming that this was the best place to get hot dogs in Summersville...

When Master Sushi Chef Eipuri Rufuru decided to open a sushi restaurant in a small West Virginia town like Lewisville, he knew that he would...

In case you are wondering, dear readers, where we've been, suffice it to say that our Weenie Wonks have had a tumultuous year! Chri...

In the United States, the true authority on hot dogs is the National Hot Dog and Sausage Council . Like most associations these folks have t...

Once in a while I am still surprised to find a HDJ that is really old school. Usually that means that they have a 1950s era Sunbeam bun stea...

Today a bill was introduced in the West Virginia House of Delegates to make the Pepperoni Roll the official state food of West Virginia. Thi...

After a long hiatus, partially because of holidays and partially to give our triglycerides a chance to return to tolerable levels, our We...

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...