Food Matters: Haute Dogs Revisited

Hot dogs

As we pointed out a month ago, last year we published an article that wondered if the humble hot dog—typically found between innings in baseball or bobbing in a city street cart—would ever get the gourmet treatment from chefs. After all, the hamburger managed to beat the odds and shed its low brow-status when Daniel Boulud introduced his DB Burger, a once unimaginable marriage of foie gras and truffles to beef and bun. Would the hot dog ever reach such heights?

It appears that it has. We've seen perfected traditional dogs like Akhtar Nawab's (he'll be serving them at the Beard House later this month) and dogs with Far East accents like the Fatty Dog at Fatty Crab UWS. Let's Be Frank, the popular... Read more >

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Adam Sachs: Screaming fans

Smiling stragglers Wiley Dufresne and Dave Chang are standing together saying something to the diminishing press line. There are some fans and I believe they are literally screaming. Or cooing. Seeing the two of them makes me think of their eponymous hot dogs at PDT. Hungry. How long till the gala?

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Food Matters: Haute Dogs

We recently stumbled upon this roundup of New York City’s haute dogs by Josh Ozersky of Citysearch. Since Mr. Ozersky has declared that hot dogs are finally having their moment, our egos compel us to mention that nearly a year ago we published a piece in our bimonthly member newsletter, JBF Notes, that forecasted the frankfurter’s ascension to gourmet status. Here’s the prescient article by our own senior editor, Cia Glover; check out the recommendations for top dogs in New York and beyond.

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