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Chili Dogs And Long Flights: LAX To Get Pink's Hot Dogs
The need for in-flight Tums just increased dramatically. Although they are already building a new outpost in Vegas, the famous Pink’s Hot Dogs is now coming to LAX airport. Let’s just hope the long lines don’t prevent travelers from boarding their planes on time.
This wiener palace will be situated within the airport’s Tom Bradley International Terminal, so you’ll need to leave the country to get one of their hot dogs for your carry-on snack. The place should open by the end of the year, and they’ll be offering up 11 of their 21 famous creations. We’re pretty sure that their chili dogs will be one of the different varieties—in-flight curious smells warning!
For now you can find them at their original location at the corner of Melrose and La Brea Avenues in Los Angeles. Just look for the line that snakes around the building, and be prepared to wait for a bit.
Related Stories: [Photo: Pink's]
·Pink's Hot Dogs To Open At LAX [LAT]
·LAX Will Fill Its Belly With Fresh New Concessions [Jaunted]
·LAX coverage [Jaunted]
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Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest Throws Pachyderms in the Mix This Year
BBQs and fireworks are great, but for us the most thrilling part of the Fourth of July has always been the gluttonous spectacle that is the Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest in Coney Island.
If you’ve ever watched grown men down 60 hot dogs in 10 minutes at this annual New York freakshow and thought “I wish this could be weirder,” this year you’re in luck. The 2009 contest will be preceded on July 3 by a hot dog bun eating contest, in which three professional eaters will take on three semi-professional eaters: elephants from the Ringling Brothers Circus.
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Are Windy City Reports Full Of Hot Air?
It's hard to know whether the experts are giving you useful information or just the same old song and dance. That's why we're introducing Guidebook Says to commend or correct other travel media. Feel free to commend or correct us in the comments below! This week, we hang out in Chicago.
The Second City played host to some very important tourists this week -- an evaluation team from the International Olympic Committee taking a look at the place for the 2016 Summer Olympics. It lost the bid to London for the 2012 games, but things are looking up this year -- so long as the visitors don't get any bad advice. They got an intricately designed tour, though, and we have to rely on these guys:
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The Five Best Comfort Food Restaurants in New York
If we have one rule about eating in New York, it's never frequent any establishments that promise to specialize in more than one cuisine. If you see a pizza/chicken/subs/Chinese food joint, keep walking. There's no reason to settle for a restaurant that does five things decently when there's a specialty shop for everything.
In that spirit, we're running down the list of our favorite New York one-stop-shops for comfort food classics:
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Hot Dogs At Hot Doug's
Zagat recently released America's Top Restaurants 2009, a comprehensive guide to all the restaurants Americans can no longer afford. But wedged in between the Jean Georges and the Nobus of the country, our eyes stopped on one of the book's few entries that boasts a score in the price category we can get behind.
Hot Doug's not only serves up some of Chicago's best hot dogs, but they do it in style, with duck fat fries on the side and daily specials like foie gras and duck sausage with black truffle butter.
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Eating Through the Recession: Even the Recession Special Is Going Up!
For years, New Yorkers and savvy visitors have eaten through good times and lean by relying on the dirt-cheapest deal around: The ubiquitous Gray's Papaya hot dog chain.
Gray's "Recession Special" started nearly 20 years ago--offering two hot dogs and a drink for the ridiculously low price of $1.95. It's crept up to $3.50 over the years, but now it's set to take another massive jump:
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New NYC Restaurant: Dogmatic Sausage Systems
The New York food scene is always looking for some fancy-free food to gourmet-up, be it Gorgonzola burgers, duck-fat French fries or thin-crust artichoke pizza.
This year's candidate for yuppie-fication is the simple hot dog, currently being fancified at Dogmatic Sausage Systems, a new Union Square-area eatery run by the former chef at West Village hot spot Employees Only.
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Street Food in Peril: LA Cracking Down on Bacon Hot Dogs
OK, it's not quite the '92 riots, but the Los Angeles streets are indeed boiling over with the latest friction between cops and everyday folks. The burning topic this time: Bacon hot dogs.
A marquee staple of LA street food, bacon wrapped hot dogs have been declared unsafe by the LA Health Department, which deems bacon too risky health-wise to be fully cooked on the street. The cops have subsequently cracked down on the pork-on-pork action, ticketing offending vendors. Earlier this year, Drew Carey took to the streets for reason.tv to investigate. (He's sympathetic to the hot dog vendors, if you couldn't guess.)
Now LAist reports that just last week, there was a major bust right on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, with police literally picking up hot dog carts and throwing them in the garbage. What gives, law enforcement? Those dogs were the only decent eats on Hollywood Boulevard!
Related Stories:
· Battle of the Bacon Hot Dogs [reason.tv]
· Killin' the Bacon [LAist]
· Street Food coverage [Jaunted]
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Miami Dining Scene: The Best Hot Dog
David LaHuta is scouting the Miami dining scene for us this week.
We realize that no one travels all the way to Miami just to get a hot dog, but if you're in town and you've got a craving, then we've got the spot for you. Plus you might be on the hunt for something a little more casual. A bit more ballpark, if you will.
Considering you've already sampled the city's best Cuban sandwich and dined at a sweet spot for sushi, a hot dog sounds just about right. Prepare your taste buds and head directly to Dogma Grill.
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More Haute Hot Dogs in Miami
We think of Miami as having more or less two types of restaurants. You've got your divey Cuban spots-slash-seedy diners for hangover nursing and you've got your over-the-top small-plates-sharing hot spot of the week.
But Dogma Grill deserves a category all its own--and with a new location opening up next month in North Miami--it's making a bid to be the city's foremost gourmet hot-doggery.
At the current Design District and Miami Beach locations, you'll find dogs beyond the basic, if that's your thing: Chicago (onions, tomatoes, peppers and pickles), El Macho (brown mustard, cheddar, tomatoes, onions and jalapenos) even the Tropicale (secret sauce, mozzarella, bacon and pineapple). Speaking of foods that could nurse a post-clubbing hangover: How do two gourmet dogs for under $10 sound?
Related Stories:
· Dogma Grill [Official Site]
· Miami Beach hotels [HotelChatter]
