The West Virginia Hot Dog Blog

The land that lies between the greater Charleston area and the hot dog rich land of Logan has long been barren of good HDJs. Recently we r...

During the recent heat wave we decided to head for the cool Pocahontas County mountains for a respite, which gave us a chance to stop in a...

Last year in a review of a new Charleston HDJ named Hot Diggity Dogs , we erroneously wrote that the phonetically similar HDJ in Morgantow...

Start a conversation about hot dogs with someone from Fairmont and you will likely find that they are either fans of Yann's  or Woody...

Before the tragic 2015 flood, Clendenin was home to one of the truly great 5 Weenie Hot Dog Joints in West Virginia, the Clendenin Dairy Que...

First of all, let me get this out of the way. This is not one of those posts  like we do on our favorite day of the year . This is real life...

For years we have been hoping to find a real WVHDJ in the Eastern Panhandle, and recently an Associate Weenie Wonk stumbled upon a place t...

Super Weenie began life as a hot dog cart that sold pretty good hot dogs on the corner of Lee & Capitol Streets in downtown Charlesto...

After a bit of a dustup over on the  West Virginia Hot Dogs Facebook page a few weeks ago. we decided to go re-review Huskey's Dairy Ba...

Top Dog can be found in the Spruce Knob parking lot. Perhaps the most aptly-named HDJ we've ever seen, Top Dog, situated near the su...

"Location, location, location" is the most common advice given to businesses. A great location can definitely help a restaurant ov...

Consistency is the hallmark of a great Hot Dog Joint, and something we value at the WV Hot Dog Blog, because when we give a place a good rev...

Fran's Restaurant and Coffee House, a Summersville Tradition Fran's is one of those places about which  we've had dozens of ...

While we consider creamy mayonnaise-based coleslaw with a slight sweetness to be standard issue for West Virginia Hot Dogs, we do allow for ...

Morgantown artist Liz Pavlovic has come up with another great gift for the WV Hot Dog lover in your life. "Slaw Thing" prints are...

Look at the picture on the left. I ask you, does this look like a flying dog? Is it just me or would it be more aptly described as a flying ...

We've been getting messages about this new HDJ on Seventh Avenue in North Charleston for a few weeks. After waiting for the new business...

We have a lot of fun on this blog at the expense of those unfortunate souls from Marion County who live a slawless existence, while believin...

Tusie's is across Quarrier Street from the Civic Center I read somewhere that West Virginia has more places to gamble than any...

This venerable Hot Dog Joint has been getting more than its share of love lately on FaceBook reviews. It seems every time we review a less-t...