Overpriced street food. What you end up paying for a gourmet hot dog is what you'd pay for good French, Indian or Italian food with decent service. The food is good but not great. The biggest problems: You serve yourself in this restaurant. This means getting up and looking for the right counter to place your order. Most irritating, the machine-like bus-girl tried to swipe our food/drinks from the table even though we hadn't finished (the glasses were half full!); nothing worse than an overzealous bus-person. Positives: The bread was good, freshly baked in fact, and the duck fries were also tasty.
In an trendy place like this you expect to be served and tip for it. At Vwerst, you end up feeling like you need to tip but without the service. If you're jonesing for an upscale hotdog then this is for you but in the end all you're getting is meat, bread, and potatoes. Tasty but not a lot of selection. A bit pretentious and poorly thought out.