Dog Haus To Open In Santa Ana

In 2010 I reviewed a great hot dog joint in Long Beach called The Dog House. It served all manner of sausages on great bread. Around the same time another joint called Dog Haus opened in Pasadena. The Dog House shuttered after less than two years,...

Sumo Dog. Photo by Edwin Goei Is there anything more American than taking what was originally from another culture and improving it a little? It allegedly happened with the hot dog in the early 1900s when a German sausage vendor in St. Louis lent...

Angels versus Dodgers: Who makes the better hot dog? That’s a loaded question. Plain Angel Dog at Angels Stadium (Photo by Brad A. Johnson, Orange County Register/SCNG) Neither is great. Let’s be clear about that. Ballpark hot dogs don’t aspire to...

Ah, the hot dog. Humble. Cheap. The stuff on which empires are built. Empires like the Irvine-based Wienerschnitzel, which lost its founder, John Galardi, in recent months. ] To honor him and in celebration of National Hot Dog Month (no, I had...

I don't usually read the Costco Connection — the corporate propaganda Coscto puts out every month and sends to every member in the mail — but this month is different. The cover story was all about the food court, its past and future. And I've...