A Banner Month for The Red Hot (30. June 2010, 09:31 by Daniel Rahe) ~
It is no secret that the month of June has been good to The Red Hot (2914 6th Avenue). The much-loved hot dog, beer and wine joint has been featured on Food Network’s Chef Vs. City program, and has recently been listed on Yahoo! Travel as one of the country’s top hot dog destinations.
At this Tacoma tavern, the experience is as much about the beefy bundles of joy as it is about the cold brews. It’s like Cheers, only better—a watering hole with some of the most delicious and inventive red hots.
Against the urgings of my better metabolic angels, I am a regular at The Red Hot. It is a mere two blocks from my front door, and has often served as the decompression chamber after a rough day at the office; or just as frequently, the reward for some dreary fitness regime. For me (and many others, I’m sure), The Red Hot is already an institution and a necessity. I am happy to share its greatness with television viewers and Yahoo! Travel readers — but only as long as I am still able to find a seat.
Since opening its doors in the summer of 2007, The Red Hot has swiftly won a place in the pantheon of Tacoma gathering places. The ever-rotating beverage selection reflects a solid knowledge of ales unaffected by even a hint of snobbery and a genuine focus on quality wines (check out Wino Wednesday). This focus on quality and variety perfectly complements the menu of famously hearty frank fare.
So, to the crew at The Red Hot, we at Exit133 offer our sincere congratulations.
More information at RedHotTacoma.com
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My kids are the only hot dog fans I know. My kids eat vitamin and mineral free fats and sugars. Exclusively. The want to be nothing like their day who eats low fat/sugar vitamin/mineral rich foods.
I do like beer however and I am impressed by their beer menu.
Please don’t anyone try to sell me on “it’s ok if you only do it once in a while” You can say that about anything. Theres always another once in a while and before you know it you’re a schick-shadle trying out aversion therapy to help you kick the hot dog habit.
3 | Posted by Altered Chords | Jun 30, 01:02 PM
OK, veggie brat is just so wrong I don’t know where to start.
5 | Posted by Squid | Jun 30, 03:17 PM
you can get corn dogs at save a lot. frozen “food” section.
7 | Posted by Altered Chords | Jun 30, 04:55 PM
Try the North End Not-Dog.
It’s very, very good. Don’t judge before you taste, Squid….
8 | Posted by Thorax O'Tool | Jun 30, 11:57 PM
Actually you can probably get corn dogs at most supermarkets. A staple item in the frozen, so called, foods section. Save-A-Lot has no monopoly on the corn dog.
11 | Posted by crenshaw sepulveda | Jul 1, 12:16 PM
Is there such a thing as a meatless corndog or are they all actually meatless anyway?
12 | Posted by Altered Chords | Jul 1, 01:39 PM
I lived on corn dogs for a few years.
Do not recommend it. Your wasitline and cholesterol levels will take years to recover.
13 | Posted by MASTERblaster | Jul 1, 02:02 PM
I would rather just eat vegetables in their native state, the way god intended, thank you very much.
14 | Posted by Squid | Jul 1, 02:56 PM
Squid – Please define “god”. While I’m waiting for that definition, I will define “meat” as the following:
food consisting of the muscle tissue of mammals, reptiles and some anphibians. According to the A/C nutrition guides, to be considered meat, the muscle tissue must have an after cooked fat to protein ratio of no more than 25%. As such, foods such as bacon, fatback and many sausages do not qualify as meat.
16 | Posted by Altered Chords | Jul 1, 04:17 PM
Bacon is “The Frosting of Meats” in the meat hiarchy here at my house.
18 | Posted by Jesse | Jul 1, 07:10 PM
I completely omitted poultry from my list. That’s meat isn’t it?
Jesse – I love the slogan!
19 | Posted by Altered Chords | Jul 2, 08:09 AM
Most hot dogs are not made from what we’d typically think of as “meat” (animal muscle)… hot dogs are mostly slaughterhouse remnants of bones, blood, skin and organs swept up off the factory floor, then ground, artificially colored, seasoned (with nitrate preservatives, MSG) and pressed into hot dog shapes. Seriously, there’s no secret about it, but you’d have to be in serious denial to eat one.
20 | Posted by Slim Jim | Jul 2, 08:19 AM
Kosher just means the animals are killed a certain way. Then they make kosher sirloin, rib eye, brisket, ground beef, new york steak, chuck etc. The left over stuff that slim describes is kosher left over stuff that is combined w/ kosher seasoning to make kosher dogs.
Jim’s post makes me envision a filthy factory where sweating guys wearing dirty boots use dirty brooms to sweep the crap off the floor and turn it into hot dogs. Pretty sure those days are long gone. I’m sure it’s clean as a whistle.
If you eat a hot dog, you’ll make yourself happy and live longer. If you eat nothing but hot dogs, you’ll suffer from malnutrition.
It’s all about balance people.
I still like their beer menu.
22 | Posted by Altered Chords | Jul 2, 10:36 AM
Hot dogs are the leading culprit in children’s choking. see food designer Eugene D. Gagliardi Jr. latest invention the safer hot dog
23 | Posted by RR Anderson | Jul 2, 01:08 PM
AC: your dog is barking up the wrong tree if you think I can define “god”, which I notice is dog spelled backwards. Coincidence? I think not. Circle of Life.
I wish I was an Oscar Meyer wiener…
24 | Posted by Squid | Jul 2, 01:30 PM
@23: Must be why they don’t let kids in the Red Hot.
Kids don’t choke on beer though so what the heck?
@24: Defining meat wasn’t so easy either Squid but at least I didn’t just give up.
25 | Posted by Altered Chords | Jul 2, 02:33 PM
I SAID dog spelled backwards, is that not sufficient? It’s a zen thing.
26 | Posted by Squid | Jul 5, 09:26 PM
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