Shady Dawgz Barks Up the Midtown Lunch Tree
On another jaunt through midtown, I stumbled across this truck bragging they were “Voted NYC #1 Gourmet Dawg” – I was born & raised in NYC, but the only time I say “dawg” is with extreme sarcasm, or when I’m extremely inebriated. Regardless, pictures of the menu and why ML readers probably aren’t too interested in this truck, after the jump…
I was pretty surprised to see no less than 5 people interested/ordering from this truck. When I approached to take a photo of the menu, the guy in the front/cab portion of the truck shoved open the window and leaned out, appearing ready/willing to talk to me. I quickly snapped it and ran away; I actually thought I took pics and posted about this when I spoke with a girl in the truck a few months ago, but I can’t find the pics nor the post so I must’ve imagined it.
Yup – each hot dog costs you $6.50 ($4.50 if you want it ‘naked’), and they have a “lunch special” for $15.50 that includes 2 ‘dawgs’, a fry and a drink. If you find a friend, you can drop that price pretty drastically to $23.50 and get 2 ‘dawgz’, 1 fry and a drink each. Still over the ML “limit” though unfortunately.
When I visited months ago (and declined to sample anything), I recall asking the girl the origins of the Frito dog in particular – was the chef southern at all? Frito Pie is a THING OF BEAUTY (and I won’t take guff about that!), and I could totally see it being amazing on top of a hot dog. Shredded cheese, chili and Fritos on top of a hot dog? Umm, yeah!! (At its basic form, of course you can add all your accoutrements!) So my question was why the FLIP is there COLE SLAW added to that?! That actually takes it from sounding really good to just sounding goopy…
Don’t even get me started on the “Brotherly Love” dawg that presumes to be a wink at the Philly cheesesteak (personal preference on cheese type).
In any case, I AM curious and want to try some of the dawgz – lucky me, I am sure one of these ‘dawgz’ would be enough for me for lunch. I’m not sure about the bigger eaters among y’all, though – that may require the ‘dawgy bag’…
Has anyone tried them? Let us know in comments what you had and what you thought!
Shady Dawg – location varies, check their Twitter for up to date info (and deals for free fries occasionally!) – unfortunately, it doesn’t seem like they update their Twitter frequently and I know they change location daily; I’ve seen them at the northwest corner of 51st and Park usually Thursdays or Fridays, and a friend reports he’s seen them on Park between 32nd and 33rd.
Posted by Yvo at 12:00 pm, April 2nd, 2015 under Shady Dawg.
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New winner of most overpriced dog in NY, surpassing even the baseball stadiums where dogs are $6 and at least come with unlimited toppings
Screw this pooch … shady like Madoff