Smoke Joint has best New York hot dog

[John]

I was looking at the newest issue of New York Magazine which came out in the mail today. It was their "best of" issue. For hot dog, they named a place called the Smoke Joint which is located at 87 South Elliot Pl. near Lafayette Ave. in the Fort Greene section. I forget if that is Brooklyn or somewhere else, as I don't have the magazine.

The review said that the Smoke Joint is a barbecue restaurant, but the owner loves hot dogs and added one to the menu. It became very popular and people go for the dogs. It is a Hatfield angus beef dog. This particular dog is served at a few carts and hot dog restaurants in Jersey. It is made in Pennsylvania but not sold there. In Pennsylvania they are familiar with the Hatfield beef/pork dog, which is mediocre in my opinion. The angus dog was made to be sold in New Jersey and New York and to compete with Sabrett. It is a quality dog with a good spiciness and a pronounced smokey flavor.

At the Smoke Joint it is prepared on a griddle, but you can request it deep fried if you wish. It comes with hacked chicken or pork. Or, like me, you can get it with just mustard.

[raji]

Hey John! I met you at Jimmy Buff's!

Fort Greene is indeed in Brooklyn.

My favorite dog is what you fed me!

I think we even talked about how there's not much of a hot dog culture in the city. Shit, many people consider dirty water dogs "NY dogs", or perhaps the papaya king, which I don't mind all that much because you can suck down like, 4 of them, and you get a very high char to tender ratio because they're the skinny little sabretts... My favorite in NYC is probably at Lederhosen, which is a German bier garden which sell frankfurters on rolls with sauer kraut and mustard. Some austrian and scandanavian places have very good sausages too, but not sure if any are frankfurters.

Perhaps some of our Brooklyn guys can report back - don't think many would commute to Fort Greene for a hot dog but you never know!