The West Virginia Hot Dog Blog

 A few years ago we put up 55 different posts on our Facebook page, one for each county in West Virginia, and asked people to tell us their ...

Long known as purveyors of one of Charleston's best hot dogs, Swiftwater Cafe's owner Teddy Queen has staked out a new location of h...

While we typically shy away from reviewing hot dogs from chain restaurants unless the chain is West Virginia based, we are making an excepti...

We've long maintained that the fancier the Hot Dog Joint, the worse the hot dogs will be. It's been a rule that has held up for the ...

Most people in West Virginia know the story of Hank William's death: That he was discovered dead on New Year's Day 1953 in the back ...

Last year we were excited when a new HDJ opened in North Charleston and reviewed it a few weeks after it was opened. You can read that revie...

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...