Dishes /
Dish
Hot dog
Where it shows up on confirmed Upstate menus.
On confirmed menus
Every restaurant whose confirmed menu lists it, with each item’s confirmed date. No prices.
- 5 places in 5 towns: Little Falls, Indian Lake, Cortland, Penn Yan, Warsaw
- Regions: Central NY (1), Finger Lakes (1), Mohawk Valley (1), North Country/Adirondacks (1), Western NY (1)
- How it’s served: dinner at 1 place, kids at 1 place
- Menu sections it’s listed under: Burgers & Dogs (1), Dinner (1), Hot Dogs (1), Juniors (1), Kidee Menu (1)
Based on 5 confirmed menus out of 20 restaurants whose menus we’ve confirmed, among the 379 places listed on this site. Other places may well serve it; their menus aren’t confirmed yet, so they aren’t listed here.
Fresh: confirmed on the official menu within 30 days (7 days for specials). Aging: up to twice that. Stale: older. Status updates in your browser from the confirmed date.
- HOT DOG Fresh
- Kid Hot Dog Fresh
- Hofmann's Frank Snappy Fresh
- Hot Dog Fresh
- Hot Dog Fresh
- Kiddie Hot Dog Fresh
What it is
From the upstate.lol menu taxonomy.
- Cuisine: American
- Kind of dish: hot dog
- Also listed as: boiled frankfurters, frank and audrey petron, frank and lula carbrey, frankfurter, frankfurter and potato salad, frankfurter and sauerkraut, frankfurter in roll 25, frankfurter sausages
On old menus
From historical menus indexed for this guide (NYPL What’s on the Menu? and the CIA menu collection).
Earliest dated Upstate menus in the indexed library collections that list it:
- 1901 · “Imported Frankfurter with Sauerkraut or Potato Salad” at LUCHOW'S PAN-AMERICAN RESTAUANT CO., Buffalo · library record ↗
- 1907 · “Frankfurters and sauerkraut, Bread and Butter” at BUFFALO FIRE DEPARTMENT BNEFICIARY ASSOCIATION, Buffalo · library record ↗
- 1907 · “Imported Frankfurters and Sauerkraut” at ORPHEUS MASQUERADE, Buffalo · library record ↗
Earliest among the menus indexed, not the dish’s first appearance anywhere.
Related dishes
Same kind of dish in the taxonomy, on confirmed menus.