Our favorite thing about baseball? You guessed it. And our favorite thing about hot dogs is all the stuff you can load ’em up with.
Think these dogs above look naked? Check out our ideas for the ultimate hot dog fixin’ buffet.
Some favorites, frankly speaking
Don’t feel like making your own? Relax, the city is teeming with hot dog vendors. Here are a few of our favorites, just the tip of the dog-berg.
-Tucker Shaw
Chicago
This place may be Cubbies central, but Rockies fans are always welcome. Big Chicago-style dogs on poppy seed buns, and no ketchup in sight.
6680 W. Colfax Ave., Lakewood, 303-233-0500
Mustard’s Last Stand
Great deals, great dogs, smart locations: Mustard’s, in business for 30-plus years, knows its way around a dog.
2081 S. University Blvd., Denver, 303-722-7936; 1719 Broadway, Boulder, 303-444-5841
Old Fashioned Italian Deli
Bring on the Buffalo-style hot dog, piled high with shaved onions, spicy mustard and red pepper relish. Pair with a frosty mug of fizzy root beer and bag of chips and call it lunch.
395 W. Littleton Blvd., Littleton, 303-794-1402
Chicago Jim’s
A tiny southlands storefront with excellent dogs. Pick up a half-dozen and race home in time for the national anthem. Bonus: awesome roast beef sandwiches.
10143 W. Chatfield Ave, Littleton, 720-922-1484
Plenty of other ways to stuff a sausage
Find locally made sausages for your World Series party at these retailers.
-Kristen Browning-Blas
Continental Sausage and Deli
This European sausage maker in Cherry Creek makes wieners, frankfurters, debreziner and cocktail wieners, as well as all kinds of sausages.
250 Steele St., Suite 112, 303-388-DELI (3354)
Edwards Meats
Sixty kinds of sausage, including all-natural skin-on hot dogs.
12280 W. 44th Ave., Wheat Ridge, 303-422-4397
Herb’s Meats & Specialty Foods
Hot and mild Italian, bratwurst, kielbasa, Sicilian, buffalo Italian, turkey Italian.
2530 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-499-8166
Sir Loin Meat Shoppe & Fresh Seafood
Try the asiago, parsley and garlic, or the chianti, basil and parmesan. They also make hot and mild Italian, Polish, German, boudin and chorizo.
1910 S. Havana St., 303-751-0707; sirloinshop.stores.yahoo.net
Tony’s Meats
Sweet or hot Italian, Milwaukee-style bratwurst, Polish, German, Portuguese, chicken, turkey and many others.
4991 E. Dry Creek Road, Littleton, 303-770-7024; 7421 W. Bowles Ave., Littleton, 720-377-3680; Tony Rosacci’s Fine Catering, 12001 E. Caley Ave., Centennial, 303-662-9353 (closed Sunday); 874 W. Happy Canyon Road, Castle Rock, 303-814-3888;
Wally’s Quality Meats & Delicatessen
“I got smoked and I got regular,” and 25 other kinds, including German, Italian and Polish, says Steve Thompson.
11187 Sheridan Blvd., Westminster, 303-439-8024
Your Butcher Frank
Hot and mild Italian, German, Polish and bratwurst.
900 Coffman St., Longmont, 303-772-3281
