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The Original Coney Dog at Lafayette Coney Island
The Original? Just before my last visit to my Detroit homeland, I happened to watch a TV show called Food Wars. This show goes all around the country and pits local restaurants against one another....
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Rainy Day Chili at Tub’s
Is this the Texas way? Having never spent a significant amount of time in Texas, Texas-style chili remains a mystery to me. However, if I were to imagine chili in Texas, it would pretty much look like...
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Beefing Up at Soul Dog
And who is Otis Jackson? A few months ago, a sign appeared in North Hollywood for a soon-to-open restaurant called Otis Jackson’s Soul Dog. The sign claimed “premium hot dogs & soul fixins” and...
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Scaring Vampires at The Stinking Rose
This is the story of when I ran away and joined the garlic circus. With the ever-growing popularity of vampires in silly stories like Twilight and edgy television like True Blood, it seems that...
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Overloading on Larry’s Chili Dog
Classic dog-in-bun. Up in Burbank is a classic-looking hot dog shack called Larry’s Chili Dog. They have an awesome neon sign that looks like it was built in the 1970s at the earliest, but likely goes...
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Meat Stacks at Smoke Shack
Chili? In Wisconsin? In February? Shocking! Here we have a long-awaited new guest blog from none other than @RGspiegel. Catch more of his writing here. Disclosure I: David Marcus, one of the owners of...
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Not Addicted to Chili Addiction
I'd like some chips with my salt. My quest for challengers to the Chili John’s and Coney Dog empire of LA chili led me to Chili Addiction in West Hollywood. Their menu of insane chili concoctions...
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Pickled by The Greasy Wiener
Hot dogs lurk in this Brisk truck. On the way to basketball one night, I stumbled upon what appeared to be a food truck festival in a high school parking lot. I am nothing if not a man who takes...
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Gettin’ Jinky’s With It
Cheesey chili. In Sherman Oaks and a few other places in LA, there is a breakfasty-dinery type of restaurant called Jinky’s. But it is no ordinary breakfasty-dinery joint. I mean, sure, it has...
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Rabid for Mad Dogz
It’s splitsville for you. Once upon a time, a sketchy-ass hot dog and sandwich hole in the wall sat upon an uncomfortable and small lot on Venice in Culver City. I meant to make it there, because...
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Off the Wheels at Rounds Burgers
The burger on the bus goes round and round… Back in January, some family friends were in town and encountered a burger truck called Rounds Burgers. To say they wouldn’t shut up about it would be an...
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Down and Dirty at the Original Hot Dog Shop
Chili, cheese and more. Shortly after moving to Pittsburgh, my friend and site designer alerted me to the existence of a hot dog place called The Original Hot Dog Shop in Oakland that had been around...
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No Beans About It Chili Recipe
Core chili ingredients. I am a man of strong principles and one of these is that beans have no place in chili. Sorry, that’s not how we did it where I’m from and I intend to keep it that way. To see...
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A Long Time Coming at Ben’s Chili Bowl
Always a line… Some cities have restaurants that have been around since the beginning of forever. In Washington, D.C., that place is Ben’s Chili Bowl, which I believe has been serving up chili since...
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Hunting Down The Hunter House
Now that’s a burger joint. Like its cousin in Farmington Hills, The Hunter House in Birmingham is home to a true slider. It sits in a building reminiscent of White Castle with simple black lettering...
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A Greek-American Lunch at Tom’s
Like having a coney in Pasadena? Throughout the LA area are places called Tom’s, Tommy’s and any other variety of that name. They all specialize in chili-covered food and while Tommy’s is supposedly...
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What’ll Ya Have at The Varsity?
Can you guess which side is mine? Every city has its share of iconic places to eat. In Atlanta, one of those places goes by the name of The Varsity and has been around since 1928. They still do the...
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Feeling South Beach at Burger City Grill
Miami gets sloppy. Did you know that May is Burger Month? Well, in all my burgerness it slipped me by, but fortunately Burger City Grill was there to remind me and to invite me out to try a burger,...
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Hunting Down The Hunter House
Now that’s a burger joint. Like its cousin in Farmington Hills, The Hunter House in Birmingham is home to a true slider. It sits in a building reminiscent of White Castle with simple black lettering...
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Gettin’ Jinky’s With It
Cheesey chili. In Sherman Oaks and a few other places in LA, there is a breakfasty-dinery type of restaurant called Jinky’s. But it is no ordinary breakfasty-dinery joint. I mean, sure, it has...
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