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5 stars cuz your blasted from all the alcohol so anything taste like a good.. on most of the clubbing nites if you are on the mission you may get the savory smell of grilled onions and bacon lingering around, if you check the corner or maybe further down the street and follow your nose you will find a late nite hot dog vendor
these dogs are special just because after you go clubbing you usually want to fill up on something greasy and for your better judgement this is the closest thing to a quick bite before heading to your regular dennys, lucky chances, peters cafe, arujos and several other spots that are open 24 hour..
watching them cook your dog is part of the fun the smell is always intoxicating who doesnt like grilled onions, and a bacon wrapped hot dog when you drunk this is definitely a five course meal. haha
you won't find these folks carting around during the day only during the nite in front of if not down the block from a club or watering hole
relatively cheap and no they do not take cards so bring some cash and bite into one or more of these bacon wrapped hot dogs with grilled onions, add some ketcup, mustard, mayo and you set for the nite some of these carts carry sauercraut hope i spelled that rite.
food ***** your drunk the smell calls you
price $ soda and dog under $10
ambiance ***** it's a freakin cart and a lil cooler for drinks
service ***** despise some of these folks not being able to speak english just point and you will get everything you want.
thursday nites levende lounge would be a watering hole where these dogs would be available. we know them as levende dogs hahaha
for the extra info listed below
good for groups yes
good for kids yes
takes reservations haha hell yeah
take out you always take it to go like 5 feet away from the vendor
waiter service if you want another they are rite there
wheelchair accessible it is on a street haha
outdoor seating if you lucky to find a chair on the street then yes if not any car in the area is fair game.
I stumbled like 10 blocks looking for this guy. Asking random Mexicans on the street "Senor, donde esta el bacon dog cart man" I know my Spanish sucks. Perhaps thats why I was up and down Valencia and then Mission hunting for this dude at 11 at night on a Wednesday. Finally there he was at the alley of 16th and Valencia!!! Woot!
I found him! (http://www.yelp.com/bi...)
You could hear his amigo who seemed to be luring the neighborhood to his cart by yelling "Hot Dogs! Get your Bacon!!" It worked!
Had mine with everything on it. Jalapenos, Mustard, Mayonaise, Crispy Bacon, Onions and some other random sauce. I wanted it all.
Only 4 bucks!! I tipped him a buck! I was a happy drunk. (http://www.yelp.com/bi...)
I will find you again Senor Bacon Dog Cart Man.
Avoid the ones by the BART stations
Get the footlong ones!
The guy on Mission by the bankof america on 23rd has the best ones but he packs it in earlier than the other carts. He's gone as early as 12 or 1 sometimes.
I'm a giggly drunk.
But I also realized that I get more ghetto as the alcohol-filled night goes on.
Words like foo, what's crackin, yo, hyphy, shizzle does not belong in a classy girl's everyday vocabulary.
But then again, I don't get tipsy every single day.
The only thing that would shut me up and bring me back to my original self is a dose of greasy goodness. With ketchup, mayo, mustard and grilled onions topping it off.
It's also on the Big Eat SF list:
#92 Bacon wrapped hotdog from a cart in the Mission (preferably when you're drunk)
5 freakin stars HELLA GOOD FOO!
BTW, posing with the hotdog man with a cheesy ass smile and a corny peace sign is NOT ghetto.
It's ghetto fabulous.
I think I ate two of these last night.....did I? That seems a little excessive.
I think I had 4.5 pints of beer (half pint spilled on the floor) and one mojito last night....did I? That seems a little excessive (esp. for someone who stands at 5'3" and weighs *cough.*)
In any case, if there were such a thing as "best food to be consumed when intoxicated" contest, I would like to nominate these bacon dogs as the winner, with chashu ramen being a close second and soondubu placing third. El Farolito wouldn't even make the first cut.
Note 1: the bread is no good. I peel that stuff off.
Note 2: my reviews are dollar-weighted.
But how in the hell did I wake up hungry after eating two of these around 2AM anyway?
What can we eat passed 2am when the line at el farolito's is too long?
Bacon Dog Cart!
We found the cart around 23rd and Mission once we decided we needed to drive around for food. The grilled onions make this dog worth the $3. Greasy and delicious.
These reviews are part of a series where my Vancouverite friend wanted to try a bunch of food carts all weekend. We ended up deviating to some other cheap eats.
The contestants: Lers Ros Thai, Fritzj, Adobo Hobo, Pizza Hacker, Gumbo Cart, Lumpia Cart, Bi-Rite Creamery, El Farolito, Bacon Dog Cart, Pho Garden, Zante's Indian Pizza
This review is about the Bacon Dog Cart. Dude, where are you guys? I read all the reviews about where to find you. I trolled up and down the Mission late at night with my face sticking out in the freezing drizzle just to smell you out! Alas could not find out after 30 minutes of driving around the mission on a cold night. Very disappointed. You guys should twitter like all the other food carts to save us some time. Maybe next time!
Just like a rainbow, you don't really go looking for the magical Bacon Dog Cart guy. Stars align, and it just happens.
THAT'S!.... what makes the bacon dog cart guy so magical. That indescribable feeling when you've been bar hoppin', laughin' it up with friends and then step out onto the throw-up filled street at 2am. You're buzzed, quasi-hungry and once you get that irresistible whiff of bacon, onion, and hot dog freshly grilling oh my - it's mothereffin ON.
My momma always told me that the best way of keeping stuff down was putting more stuff on top of it. So if you think you're about to throw up - throw a bacon dog on it. Yes, bacon dogs have been known to cure hangovers.
Me and the boys felt like teenage pimply faced girls going to a Nsync double headlined Backstreet boys concert the way we were giddy and jumping for joy first time meeting the BDC!
The effect wears off awhile but your first time is always magical. I know mine was.
I F-ING LA LA LA LA LOOOOOVE THESE HOT DOGSSSSS!!!!!!
This cart knows exactly where to find me at 2am when the bar closes by 16th & Valencia. Always soo good, I'll be the first in line for these babies. The line gets long at night with crazy, hungry, drunkies ready for their next fix.
The bacon wrapped around the doggie is already good, but topped with sauteed onions you can't go wrong!!! I top it off with some jalapeno's, mustard, and ketchup and I'm in heaven. Sometimes I get disappointed that I didn't get one, then I get reminded "Oh no you did eat one, you devoured that shit!" LOL ahhhh I don't care how crazy I look eating these, they are soooo worth it! Don't miss out on these, this cart is like an ice cream truck for adults.
one of these days im going to hook up a GPS to this guy so i always know where he is.
get one with the works and grab a few napkins and you will die happy.
Hahaha, I usually try to keep my reviews as impartial as possible, but I really have to give this place a five despite the fact that it's probably really a _THREE_ (when sober).
A bacon wrapped hotdog is the epitome of what drunkies want after a night of drinking and partying. The more you drink, the better these things taste. I only vaguely remember wanting to cry -- of joy -- after eating one of these in 2-3 bites even though it was (most likely, don't remember this part) burning hot.
The best way to locate the cart is to follow your nose and "stumble-upon" them.
Once my friends and I went out for a night at Bruno's, but on the way we smelled grilled onions and sizzling bacon and followed our noses to the hot dog cart. So we just stood as a large loitering Asian mob eating hot dogs on the sidewalk. Two of our guys ate 3 or 4 at a time. Then we forgot about Bruno's and went home.
I love the hot dog cart!!!
It usually sits on 19th and Mission, and is the mecca for drunks, midnight snackers and people who generally want to have cardiac arrest at the tender age of 25. Yum....
You can choose what to put on top, but I highly suggest just going with everything! Caramelized onions, Jalapeno's, Mustard, Ketchup and Mayo. Together it creates a wondrous food. The Onions add a sweet texture to it and the jalapeno's add a much needed kick to it. Somehow, the last time I ate it, I ended up with just a tiny bit of a crispier bacon in my last bite...and it was a perfect ending to a food-gasm.
Total cost for this treat is a mere $3.
There isn't much to say about how amazing the bacon-wrapped hot dogs are that hasn't already been said, so I'm not really going to waste my breath.
All I will say is that one time I went to the Asian Art Museum and ate tofu that made me ill and I had to go home and lay down. A kind soul brought me a bacon-wrapped hot dog from the cart and even though I still felt sick, I ate it. Guess what--I instantly felt better! GOOD even!
So, the moral of my story is that not only are these hot dogs delicious (especially when you're drunk as f*ck), they also have miraculous healing powers. Is there anything they can't do???
Found it with my nose once whilst biking, old school styles. Needs neither introduction nor improvement. Pure perfection, totally astral when you're three sheets to the wind.
OMG
I have heard the legends of this.... I have only lived in S.F. since October 2008 and have STILL heard about bacon wrapped hot dog.
Well, I tried it tonight. 12:30 am, outside of the Cat Club.
I very very rarely ever eat meat, but HOLY SHIT. BACON + HOT DOG + MUSTARD + KETCHUP = INSTANT ORGASM.
Yes.
OH, BACON DOG CART, WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN ALL MY LIFE?
*my friend and I came across sed bacon dog cart outside the cat club on 9th and folsom in the SOMA district, but it was so extraordinary, i must yelp it*
it was fate, i tell ya. super yelper mel v. wanted 2 things : 1) a cigarette and 2) to dance to some really cheesy current radio hits. we exited cat club and tried to scam our way into icon. EPIC FAIL. however, this then became a great moment, because she spoted THE BACON DOG CART.
There they were, grilling up, wrapped in bacon, caressed by a pile of onions, ready to be devoured by the masses. its everything you think i t will be and more. the buns are perfect, the bacon-covered hot dog divine, the grilled onions sheer perfection----then she adds mayo mustard, ketchup, jalapenos---if you want---, and you are on your way to sweetfunkyflavortown!! we gobbled up these savory treats, and headed back into cat club. when our other friend realized we had had bacon dogs and failed to bring him one, we were chastised severely.
After years and years of avoiding these carts, I finally broke down and tried their bacon dog after a night of drinking at Bruno's. They were camped out right in front, floating the smell of bacon into the air...how could I not with those post-drinking munchies to satisfy?
Although I didn't get the raging stomach aches I feared as I sobered up, they shorted me my bacon! How do you short a grown man the BACON on his BACON hot dog?! Minus one star! In any case, the hot dog still slayed those late night food cravings, despite the absence of tasty bacon goodness.
I still don't know if I would ever get one of these sober (who really wants to spend the night vomiting alcohol AND hot dog chunks?), but I might be singing a different tune with some liquid courage in me.
bacon wrapped hot dogs with grilled onions. need i say more?
Left lovefest when the cold started coming in and was in desperate need of some warmth. started to smell something wonderful and turned the corner....THE BACON DOG CART!! i was so happy because i always have wanted to try one and there was no line!!
I fell in love yesterday.
Oh, bacon-wrapped hot dogs...you seduce me with your irresistible smell, just begging me to eat you. AND YOU ARE DELICIOUS.
While the bacon-wrapped hot dog is a genius idea, the grilled onions just put you over the edge. NOM NOM NOM. Fresh and hot off the grill, this bun-full of meaty goodness is the drunk partygoer's jackpot.
As mouth watering as these are, I couldn't give it 5 stars because you never quite know where to find them. There's one consistently by Bruno's (but you have to battle a long line most of the time, which is the worst when you're drunk and want to inhale that dog RIGHT NOW). That being said, if someone has these dog carts mapped out and doesn't mind sharing, he or she will be my new favorite person.
Also, what's up with the arbitrary prices? I've seen them sold from $3-5 over the past MONTH. Granted it's only $1 or $2, but hey, we're in a recession here, and you can't help but feel a little jipped when you've paid $5 one night, and $3 the next DAY.
As much as I bitch about the arbitrary locations and prices, you can bet that I'll be back for more...
$4 a pop for drunken food goodness.
The smell of the bacon wrapped hot dogs will draw you in and entice you to buy one, especially if you are intoxicated. They operate mostly late night to catch all the unsuspecting bar-goers in the Mission. It takes you one step closer to soberness and tastes uh-may-zing!
There are several carts in the area and all of them are pretty much the same. Topping choices include grilled onions, jalapenos, ketchup, mustard, and mayo. The hot dogs are fresh off the grill and are uber juicy. Be careful of burning your tongue and try to beat the crowd by leaving the bar a few minutes earlier.
Whoever came up with the bacon dog cart is a genius!
Minus 1 star!
Dirty dog cart: where were you on the 4th of july? We drove up and down your usual streets and you took the day off. We had to get nachos instead.
Boo. How we missed you!
dirty dogs. my drunken saviour.
walking out of a nighlifin scene in the mission
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I love you bacon dog cart. You know what I want, before I even know. Something so wrong, that is so right.
Super Delicious, and full service! they dress it for you, probably because they know you are way too drunk to be handling a ketchup squeezy bottle.
It's a little past midnight. Apparently I've had a little too much to drink. I run outside and what do I see? oooooh.... bacon wrapped hot dogs.
I've never had one of those!
One please!
Everything on it?
Yes please!
.... a few minutes later in my drunken stupor it is devoured. mmmmm yum.
out comes my sister and friend
Um... what are you doing?
I've eaten a bacon wrapped hot dog with everything on it and i love it.
ooooh we want one too!
We proceed to get three more bacon wrapped hot dogs.
I down yet another hot dog and hop in the back seat in my drunken silliness all the way home.
the end.
Stay tuned for next episode of Jennifer eats bacon wrapped hot dogs in the mission after having one too many drinks.
This review goes out to all my Bacon Cart peeps!
Shout outs!...
Thanks to the girl who kicks my craving on the corner of 23rd & mission at 3pm on any given day!
To that guy who sold us the bacon dog right after we stuffed ourselves silly at Bissap Baobob, gracias!! Estoy llena!
Bacon Dogs are the best thing ever! Especially at 2am =)
The cops shut all these guys down, and nowadays only the brave ones come out on the sly -- so if you find one, be sure to support him!
We were talking to one guy in Spanish and he told us how the cops were always shaking him down for bribes.
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After drinking one night, we had to find the legend that is....
The Bacon Wrapped Hot Dog....
And upon doing my research here on Yelp, I noticed that one of the pics of the Bacon Wrapped Dog had Beauty Bar in the background so that is the intersection we went checking at first and low and behold, it appeared out of the corner of our eyes....
Sweet! So the corner is 19th and Mission and once we got to the stand, we asked the guy if they were there all the time. He said that they are here every Friday and Saturday nights from 10p until about 2:30a
A great combination of meat, bread, sauce, grilled onions... I think it does probably taste better after a night of drinking but it would probably taste pretty damn good without a night of drinking...
However.... if you haven't drank that night and got a little buzz on, you might feel extremely guilty eating one of these puppies... So my suggestion is to get buzzed and then come to order your guilty pleasure...... Happy Eating!!!
So we stumble out of Bruno's because that's what people do. An intoxicating smell washes over us. We let the smell guide us to the corner, where the bacon-wrapped hot dog cart was waiting for us with open arms.
Give me one, with ketchup and mayo, and extra grilled onions.
So what if I burnt my lips eating that first bite because I was an eager beaver?
So what if I dropped my last bite because I was too giddy to hold on too tightly?
Sigh...til next time...
Yo
To the dude down there who gave a one star rating: shame on you. Anyway, the bacon dog cart holds a very special cholesterol-filled place in my heart, and I find myself crying whenever I can't find one of these carts, especially late at night when I exit the club tipsy, with two honeys on each arm and cocaine residue on my nostrils and ears. Ladies.
These hot dogs are to die for, and although ironically you would probably die from eating too many of them, I would buy a bacon dog off these dudes even if I wasn't hungry. Word is bond.
CULOOOOOOO
yelp make me elite
I'm not a believer in God but when I was hungry and a little inebriated after drinks @ the delirium this place was`a god send. I had one of these scrumptious niblets and the tasty, juicy, greasy goodness filled my stomach, heart and soul. It was just what I needed.
All praise the bacon-wrapped hot dog cart.
One of my most guiltiest pleasures is the bacon dog.
It's so sick and disgusting. Like a hot dog, for one... and then add bacon to it. It's so bad.
I was introduced to this one when after a drunken night in Castro, we were walking back to the Mission. My friend Ayn who is a resident of the Mission was like, we are going to sniff out the bacon dog. She had the sensor in her nose (I'm jealous) and she sprinted across the street and next thing you know...
It was gluttonous bliss.
But I read the review about someone getting sick and it's totally one of those things where you have to take into account that you are drunk when eating these. So as it goes, the person cooking them is probably drunk as well.
Mmmm...
Stumbling down Mission. A vision. A faint figure. Is that Christ? No. Even more incredible. More spiritual. It's the Bacon Dog Cart!
I honestly can't think of anything that is a more welcome sight when your drunk, hungry, and stumbling home. Well, maybe a few things. But those are too graphic to talk about here.
I think this is one of those 'only in America' foods. I mean really no one can top this. Oh, wait. I forgot. Us Americans always strive for bigger. Better. Fatter. http://www.nytimes.com...
Use your nose and find these guys when they work out of their vans on Mission St.
Pure genius.
Anyone that's done some solid boozing in the Mission has probably ran across a couple of these carts. They might be a little tough to spot from the road, but if you're walking down the street they are impossible to miss.
You can smell the carts half a block away, as they are busy grilling up onions to be used as fixings for your bacon dog. They also had a jar of mild jalapenos on hand if you liked a bit of extra flavor on your dog.
The dogs set us back 3 bucks each and I much prefer them to the tamales that Tamale Lady was selling. Sometimes you just crave something fatty and greasy after a lot of drinks.
My only regret was that although the bacon dog hit me like a brick, I wasn't quite satisfied. I'm pretty sure it was too small for my ravenous appetite that late at night. Unfortunately we still do not have Roberto's in SF or the North bay, so my ideal drunk food (Carne Asada chips and guacamole) will have to wait.
And for my third review of hot dogs around the US....the bacon-wrapped hot dog cart on Folsom! The scent of bacon-wrapped goodness wafts through the SOMA air when you're either doing the ho stroll in front of Cat Club or picking up Gaysians at Dragon and beckons to you with a far louder voice than any of those tramps could. This is food for when you're drunk, not sober. They're $4, you get your choice of onions, jalepenos, ketchup and mayo. They're not the best hot dogs ever because they're not Sonoran hot dogs, but fill the void when you've had a few drinks.
The obsession sweeping the nation.
*drool*
I find this evil dogs everwhere now, including the LA Auto Show
How many times have my friends and I driven around trying to find you, I can no longer count.
24 Hot Dogs (bulk from Costco) $10-12 = 41-43 cents/dog
24 Buns (bulk from Costco) $7 = 29 cents/dog
Miniscule costs as they last much longer:
Mustard, Mayonnaise, Ketchup combo pack (Costco) $12
Huge Jar of Jalapenos ($3)
3 Onions ($3)
I pay you $4 for one dog....that probably costs you somewhere around $1 to make. Seriously banking some cash there mama. Maybe I should open my own baco-dog cart. I mean, taking a cookie sheet and putting it on top of a hot plate on a cart would cost maybe upside of $100. In one night you could recover or double in profit.
BACON!!
I'm pretty much a vegan now. I mean, I don't care if you're not. I'm not one of those types of vegans. That's the commonest misconception I encounter now that I'm a vegan. People think you're all like preachy and judgmental and thinking they are bad because they're not a vegan like we are. But I think there is room for namaste to every kind of people. Even non-vegans. (But try telling that to the dying cows ;) )
Anyway I'm pretty much vegan so I may not be qualified to rate. But you can't say no to the bacon dogs when you've got your buzz on!
As I stumble out of another bar after having a few too many drinks, the only thing on my mind is, "Where the fuck am I, and how am I getting home?" The next thing I'm thinking is, "Jesus Christ I am so fucked up!" Once I get that out of my system I immediately think of where to get some cheap, greasy, artery-clogging, heart attack-inducing, GRUB. I roam the streets, listening for the sizzle and smell of bacon, praying to the late-night binge drinking Gods that they will lead me to the promised land.
Alas, over yonder I see a group of people standing on a corner. My eyes and ears focus on the scene. Sizzle. I get a hard on and make my way towards the corner as if there were a pot of gold there for the taking, except this is better. Basking in all it's glory is quite possibly one of the greatest sights to behold when you're piss drunk, the elusive Bacon Hot Dog Cart.
These guys (and gals!) don't mess around. You have a cart with a flat grilling surface and they bang these out like nobody's business. The formula is pretty simple: you take a hot dog, wrap it in bacon, grill it with some onions and jalapenos, and slap it with ketchup, mustard, and mayonaise. Charge $3 and serve the next one. I buy two every time and make no apologies.
Check out the full review with photos on my blog, see profile.
This is possibly the best hot dog I will ever have in my life. I don't know who came up with it, but I'm thankful because it's so amazing and beautiful. Thank you.
I was wondering around looking for all the mythical carts full of food that people are always yelping, about when I turned a corner and the smell of bacon lured me across the street. At freaking last! I found a cart! And the Bacon Dog Cart at that. Yeah, it's just meat wrapped around more meat but what better way enhance the flavor of a hot dog but by adding another type of processed meat product. Yum!
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