Post by ssmynkint on Sept 5, 2011 14:56:19 GMT -5
The Good Dog
34 Frazier Ave.
Chattanooga
Urban Dog
Good Dog has pretension of being an upscale Hot Dogery. Except for fries, a few salads, sides and chili, hot dogs, bratwurst & Italian sausage are all the food that’s offered. A variety of beers are available, most at “market price” a particularly weird affectation for such a place.
The space is rustic by virtue of having no meaningful decoration except for Good Dog memorabilia and such (tee shirts, etc) available and heavily touted a la Hard Rock Café. Rough, paint-pealed benches and chairs abrupt tree slab tables with holes bored out to accommodate the paper cones of fries. The room reeks of frying oil. .
Our chipper and chirpy server greeted us and began a lengthy recitation of the concept, toppings and awesomeness of the Dog as if indoctrinating us into a secret society. She was happy to inform how much each otherwise unlisted beer cost as one pointed to the specimens in the cooler.
A basic dog is $2.75. One with chili and onions was $3.75, the “Chicago Dog” was $4.75. There are other “designed” dogs (including one with cream cheese!) or you can build your own for $0.50 per topping. Sabrett’s skinless hot dogs (without the “snap” of natural casing) are a good product and cost about $0.90 retails. The overall impact of the dog with chili was good. The Chicago Dog was a travesty. It came with 2 (two) sport peppers, one at each end, 3 (three) rounds of dill pickle and scatterings of tomato, onion and neon relish. There was no uniformity of flavors once the limited items were gone. The only thing it had in common with a real Chicago dog was that it was messy to eat. Sonic’s version for $1.99 is infinitely better.
The two bean vegetarian chili was more of a bean soup with chunky vegetables and was boring. The fries were worse. A small size, $2.85, enough to serve two, contained flaccid fries, long out of the oil, barely warm and without crispness. As the house was empty when we arrived, I can’t fathom why the fries were not made to order. Perhaps I should have asked the proprietress but she seemed too engrossed with her laptop at another table. Several ketchups were on the table; an insipid curry/sugar, a purported wasabi and a regular, one of which was needed to coax flavor out of the fries.
The two dogs mentioned, two small fries, chili, two coke and a beer totaled $24.
Ambiance: Poor
Service: Fair
Food: Poor
Value: Insulting.
5-Sept, 11
34 Frazier Ave.
Chattanooga
Urban Dog
Good Dog has pretension of being an upscale Hot Dogery. Except for fries, a few salads, sides and chili, hot dogs, bratwurst & Italian sausage are all the food that’s offered. A variety of beers are available, most at “market price” a particularly weird affectation for such a place.
The space is rustic by virtue of having no meaningful decoration except for Good Dog memorabilia and such (tee shirts, etc) available and heavily touted a la Hard Rock Café. Rough, paint-pealed benches and chairs abrupt tree slab tables with holes bored out to accommodate the paper cones of fries. The room reeks of frying oil. .
Our chipper and chirpy server greeted us and began a lengthy recitation of the concept, toppings and awesomeness of the Dog as if indoctrinating us into a secret society. She was happy to inform how much each otherwise unlisted beer cost as one pointed to the specimens in the cooler.
A basic dog is $2.75. One with chili and onions was $3.75, the “Chicago Dog” was $4.75. There are other “designed” dogs (including one with cream cheese!) or you can build your own for $0.50 per topping. Sabrett’s skinless hot dogs (without the “snap” of natural casing) are a good product and cost about $0.90 retails. The overall impact of the dog with chili was good. The Chicago Dog was a travesty. It came with 2 (two) sport peppers, one at each end, 3 (three) rounds of dill pickle and scatterings of tomato, onion and neon relish. There was no uniformity of flavors once the limited items were gone. The only thing it had in common with a real Chicago dog was that it was messy to eat. Sonic’s version for $1.99 is infinitely better.
The two bean vegetarian chili was more of a bean soup with chunky vegetables and was boring. The fries were worse. A small size, $2.85, enough to serve two, contained flaccid fries, long out of the oil, barely warm and without crispness. As the house was empty when we arrived, I can’t fathom why the fries were not made to order. Perhaps I should have asked the proprietress but she seemed too engrossed with her laptop at another table. Several ketchups were on the table; an insipid curry/sugar, a purported wasabi and a regular, one of which was needed to coax flavor out of the fries.
The two dogs mentioned, two small fries, chili, two coke and a beer totaled $24.
Ambiance: Poor
Service: Fair
Food: Poor
Value: Insulting.
5-Sept, 11