monkey nonsense

so one of my coworkers heard about this fancy hot dog place near adams morgan (a little over a mile away from my office)… we decided to make the trek a couple of wednesdays ago.

the place is owned/started by the same people who run the late night falafel shop in adams morgan too.  my coworker had heard good things about the place, but also that it’s a bit pricey.  $5 hot dogs?  and there’s even a $20 special kobe beef hot dog!

one of my coworkers ordered the spicy DC halfsmoke.  another ordered beef & pork NJ ripper; it was deep fried which is the first time i’ve ever seen a hot dog deep fried.  one coworker and i both ordered the andouille which wasn’t too spicy.  we split an order of fries, which were nice and crispy and most importantly, saltly .  i got the $1 “uptown” fixing bar which was pretty impressive.  a lot of different toppings, but i honestly didn’t use that many of them.  it was kind of annoying because i pretty much paid that $1 so that i could get sauerkraut on my hotdog… i think that should’ve been part of the free fixing bar.  oh well, i ended up adding bacon to my hot dog to maximize my $1.

overall, the hot dog was good.  but i also didn’t seem too special.  perhaps i should’ve tried the deep fried hot dog or the $20 kobe beef hot dog (my coworker was regretting not trying it) so that it would’ve been a more unique experience.  i don’t think it’s a place i’d frequent often (because of distance, but also because of cost)

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