There's a new hot dog spot in town, which is big news in this corn dog city.
A Chicago-style hot dog: Vienna beef hot dog with tomato, mustard, pickle, relish, sport peppers and chopped onion, all in a poppy seed bun sprinkled with celery salt. Nailed it. , are from Cicero, a Chicago suburb that shares a border with this food writer’s home village. The city gets name-dropped in"Cell Block Tango," one of the showstoppers from the musical, and more recently was the hometown of Jimmy McGill, aka Saul Goodman, from"Better Call Saul.
The owners, who didn't want to give their last names for this story, have lived in Texas for seven years now. Last month they opened a Chicago hot dog spot in Garland in an effort to bring this Chicagoland specialty to the folks of North Texas.The small spot has seating for about four and shares space with an auto mechanic garage. You could say it pretty much nails the lack of pretension that real Chicago-area dog joints are known for.
Since our visit was on a Thursday, we couldn’t try the Italian beef, but we ordered a Chicago dog, a Maxwell Street Polish and a pizza puff. Alexis told us the puff would take about five minutes because they fry them on demand, so we settled in at a bar stool and enjoyed the two dogs as they were ready.The Maxwell Street Polish was ready first, a plump sausage with a good snap to the bite and generously slathered in mustard.
A Chicago-style hot dog: Vienna beef hot dog with tomato, mustard, pickle, relish, sport peppers and chopped onion, all in a poppy seed bun sprinkled with celery salt. Nailed it. The Chicago hot dog was correct and perfectly dragged through the garden with tomatoes, a kosher pickle slice, mustard, sport peppers, chopped white onions, and the correctly hued neon green relish.
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