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| - Roll up, roll up for the Brighton Hot Dog Shoppe experience! There are quite a few locations to choose from, but the one on Noblestown Road is my regular stop. Now, if you know Pittsburgh, you know its residents have a love for the hot dog. All sorts of hot dog eateries have come and gone, but Brighton Hot Dogs (as I like to refer to them) has been a mainstay, and rightly so.
The hot dogs have their own unique taste, and that's key to any successful hot dog joint. Hot dogs you get at restaurants shouldn't remind you of ones you can make at home. To me, they should be better than that. When I think of great hot dogs, I think of cheese Coneys from Skyline in Cincinnati, or Yocco's hot dogs with their funky chili sauce out in Allentown, PA. Brighton fits this bill as well. The flavor of the hot dogs they use is unique on its own. They certainly don't taste like any of the supermarket majors I've had, which is a plus.
Like Yocco's, Brighton Hot Dogs' chili is a thinner type of chili sauce than a full-blown meat and beans type of chili. It's there to complement the hot dog, not overwhelm it. The consistency is spot on. Add some mustard to it and you have one terrific chili dog. I usually get a pair of them.
The hamburgers are also good. Now, these remind me of the types of burgers I would grill up myself, and that's just fine. It's a basic burger and you can get whatever myriad toppings you'd like on it. I usually just go for mustard and ketchup and some lettuce. It's not a huge gourmet burger, but it's tons better than anything McDonald's or Wendy's are serving just up the street. The homemade taste is what counts.
Of course, it wouldn't be a Pittsburgh eatery if there weren't fresh cut fries. Lo and behold, Brighton has those, too. It's funny, when I moved from Pittsburgh for a few years, the one thing I seriously missed was fresh cut fries everywhere. You just start to take them for granted after a while. And when you move to a place where everyone uses frozen fries mainly, you really start missing them. Anyway, Brighton's fries are tasty and as often is the case around here, go great with some vinegar on top.
I've also enjoyed the breakfast here, and this place definitely gets crowded on weekend mornings. Heck, you can't beat the prices for all the food you get. The pancakes are awesome, as are the eggs and sausage. It's a basic breakfast menu and it satisfies greatly. Brighton Hot Dogs is really about getting good food at a sweet price to its customers and not about bells and whistles and all the sort of things that jack up the price of a meal for no real reason.
One of my favorite things at this location is the wacky drive thru speaker box they have inside the restaurant. It looks like some sort of relic and always seems to be turned up to 11. It adds to the low key and charming atmosphere.
The staff is always super friendly and the food is always served at a decent pace. The prices are perfect (the combo number one is two hot dogs or a hamburger however you like plus fries and a drink for six bucks) and the food is really good. So if you like hot dogs or groovy breakfasts at a nifty price, Brighton Hot Dog Shoppe is the place for you. Sometimes the classics need not be improved upon.
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