Saturday, October 06, 2007
Chicago Style Dog and Duck Fries from Hot Doug's, Chicago, IL
As our second stop in our Chicago food tour, we headed over to Hot Doug's. Hot Doug's specializes in sausages, and despite toting themselves as an 'Encased Meat Emporium', it doesn't seem like you can buy sausages in bulk, just for eating. On weekends they also offer french fries fried in rendered duck fat.
Service is of the queue up and order at the counter, and then wait at the table to wave down the cute waitress shouting your name out variety. Though they offer a wide variety of sausages, including enticing daily and weekly specials (like the Bacon and Chedder Elk Sausage), we were on a mission to taste the classic Chicago Style Dog.
Duck Fries $3.50
This was a huge basket of hand-cut, skinny fries from real potatoes. They less like potato and more like fat, which for us, was a good thing. We couldn't eat even half this basket, even though they were quite tasty, so we replated.
"The Dog" $1.95
This is a classic Chicago style hot dog and it consists of a grilled (or steamed) hot dog, a soft bun (which we weren't too fond of), a dill pickle sphere, tomato slices, chopped onions, relish, mustard and celery salt. The toppings were good, but we think this could be improved on with a higher quality bun and a bigger, thicker sausage.
Food: 1
Decor: 0
Service: 1
Website
Health Code Violations
Service is of the queue up and order at the counter, and then wait at the table to wave down the cute waitress shouting your name out variety. Though they offer a wide variety of sausages, including enticing daily and weekly specials (like the Bacon and Chedder Elk Sausage), we were on a mission to taste the classic Chicago Style Dog.
Duck Fries $3.50
This was a huge basket of hand-cut, skinny fries from real potatoes. They less like potato and more like fat, which for us, was a good thing. We couldn't eat even half this basket, even though they were quite tasty, so we replated.
"The Dog" $1.95
This is a classic Chicago style hot dog and it consists of a grilled (or steamed) hot dog, a soft bun (which we weren't too fond of), a dill pickle sphere, tomato slices, chopped onions, relish, mustard and celery salt. The toppings were good, but we think this could be improved on with a higher quality bun and a bigger, thicker sausage.
Hot Doug's
3324 N. California Street
Chicago, IL 60618
Ratings:3324 N. California Street
Chicago, IL 60618
Food: 1
Decor: 0
Service: 1
Website
Health Code Violations
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