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| - I like a good hot dog. Can a hot dog be gussied up enough to elevate it to gourmet? That remains to be seen. But it seems like the Station Street Hot Dog place is taking a crack at it.
As other reviewers have mentioned, it's a 1970's retro building - all open with high ceilings, so the noise level can be high when there's a lot of people there and the staff is prepping potatoes for the fryer.
Not a place to linger, either, just rows of stools on counters that line the periphery of the restaurant. As an aside, I went on a very rainy, cold Saturday and the place was nearly full. Sousa brothers, if you're listening, please re-configure the floor space to allow for more seating (Kevin's wife did tell me that plans are in place to add a deck for seasonal seating).
You go up to the counter and order. Menu is very basic. When asked if there are plans to expand, Mrs. Sousa (sorry I did not catch her name) said that a Chicago style is being considered but "Kevin wanted to do it right". If you don't like fries, you're out of luck, that's the only side. There's the choice of fountain drinks or Mexican Coca-Cola. I'd be nice to have other options such as Root Beer from East End brewing or other locally-produced soft drink. Or Jones Soda if local isn't an option.
I got the Chili Dog and my friend got the Chili Dog and a New York Dog. We split an order of fries (not cooked in duck fat). The hot dog is very high quality, a tad bit bigger than what you get at Frankuary, for example, and had a nice spice and snap. The chili was unremarkable and not spicy hot. A disappointment. The spices I discerned in the chili were cumin and maybe nutmeg, with chili powder WAY in the background. Maybe so it wouldn't clash with the spices in the hot dog?
The cheese was curiously cut into cubes, so there were three "pockets" of cheese in the sandwich rather than cheese throughout, which is what you get using shredded cheese. The buns were okay and extremely unremarkable. A step or two up from grocery store buns, but they were fresh.
The fries were undersalted, which was okay, since there was salt on the table and preferable to being oversalted. It was a large-ish portion but again, nothing spectacular. A very friendly fellow customer offered me a few of his duck fat fried fries, and like many of the other reviewers, I couldn't tell the difference between the duck and non-duck fries.
My friend liked his NY hot dog. The person at the counter said that the sauerkraut was homemade, but the uniform cut and taste of the cabbage suggested store-bought.
As hot dog places go, this I liked but didn't love. I thought $5 was a reasonable price to pay for a hot dog and $3 for the fries was also reasonable, given the portion size. If you're on the east end and have a hankering for a hot dog, I'd give it a try. But I wouldn't go out of your way to go here. Other places (Dee's Six Packs, Frankuary, even the O) give you the same quality at about the same price.
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