Locally, Barker's Red Hots in Marietta (3000 Windy Hill Road, 77, ) sells its red hots by the pound and offers party packs with sides, condiments and lump charcoal.

Or get an entire Chicago-style hot dog kit with beef franks, poppy seed buns and all the fixings from Vienna Beef ( ). You can order Let's Be Frank ( ) and Usinger's ( ) hot dogs online. And if you like them snappy, look for natural casings. But for more taste, seek out traditional or handcrafted beef or beef and pork hot dogs. Putting your own Chicago, chili or Southern dog together can be as easy as gathering the right condiments and lighting the grill. Smith’s carefully constructed Chicago-style dog is named the Abe Froman, for the “Sausage King of Chicago” from “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.” Chef Andrew Smith loads his knife-and-fork chili-cheese dog with house-made chili and cheese sauce. The beef dogs come from Usinger’s, a traditional Milwaukee sausage maker. But his Southern Dog, topped with creamy pimento cheese, chopped Vidalia onions and sweet-hot Wickles relish, is a revelation of hot dog creativity with a down-home twist.Īcross the street from Yeah Burger, in the basement of the White Provision building, Ormsby’s is a speakeasy-style tavern doing fun stuff with pub grub. Doty offers Let’s Be Frank brand grass-fed beef dogs from California on organic buns with a variety of toppings, including beef and red bean chili and cheese. Yeah Burger on the burgeoning West side may be chef Shaun Doty’s new take on the fast casual burger joint, but there are three hot dogs on the menu. At Young Augustine’s near Grant Park, the Chicago-style Wrigley Dog is a big hit. Hobnob Neighborhood Tavern in Midtown features a “one-dollar-make-you-holler” hot dog on its Midnight Special bar menu. Though Atlanta doesn’t rank among the top hot dog-consuming places, hot dogs have shown up on menus at several recently opened restaurants and bars.

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