Beef on Weck Hot Dog
The new hot dog joint in town, Dog e Style---ugh don't even get me started on how awful the name is, has the hometown favorite sandwich, in dog form. As soon as I saw the beef on weck hot dog on their menu online, I knew I had to immediately sample it.
The dog: an all beef hot dog, topped with horseradish mayo in a salted caraway seed bun (the bun seemed to be a normal bun, oiled and then covered in a caraway-salted topping).
The actual dog was delicious but the horseradish mayo was a bit muted and the bun was way too salty and caraway-y for me. AND I am not a fan of the toasted hot dog bun. As a Chicagoan, I'm used to a steamed bun when eating hot dogs. The toasted bun ruined my experience since the crunchiness became more of a distraction when trying to eat the hot dog.
Beef on Weck Meatballs
Last summer, seeking out beef on weck meatballs from Providence Social was on my bucket list, but somehow I never was able to cross it off the list. And in the same day I tried the beef on weck hot dog, I later tried the beef on weck meatballs (my day turned into a beef on weck crawl).
The tapas style restaurant seemed to be the perfect setting for a post concert dinner, complete with delicious cocktails. However, all of our dishes were too generously salted. The meatballs, while salty, were also quite tough. But looking beyond the obvious problems, I still liked the flavor of the horseradish gravy and the caraway seeds inside the meatballs. If the meatballs weren't tough, I would have thoroughly enjoyed this variation on the sandwich.
Bar Bill's Beef on Weck
via yelp cause my pic was so bad |
And their wings were also delicious (the hot sauce and the blue cheese sauce were both different and so tasty from any other wings I've had).
I can almost say my beef on weck adventures are complete. I've had beef on weck five times in the past five years in addition to beef on weck pizza, sushi, mac & cheese, hot dog and meatballs. But as I started writing this blog entry, I found out there's a beef on weck cocktail. So hopefully I can try it out in the next week!
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