Famous Hot Weiner- Downtown Hanover

one of the best hot dogs in the country, the reason some of the reviews are bad is that most of these people don’t know hot dogs, complaining about thick skin and too many onions, really, you retards need to eat at 7 – 11, thick skin is called snap in hot dog circles, now I know that real hot dogs such as the texas kunzler weiner that famous uses,(one idiot complained that you could buy these dogs in any store when the only store that retails these dogs is myers meat market) are not for everyone. but please refrain from writing negative reviews when you just don’t like a quality hot dog. now I have tried some of the best hot dogs in the country including Lafayette and American cony island in Detroit and the original hot dog shoppe on the university of Pittsburgh campus along with any hot dog shop I come across and this place stacks up.

It is OK. Nothing famous about the dogs. Regular dog massive pile on onions. Did not like Chili sauce. Hubby did. Must be a guy thing. Clean, friendly staff. Menu with large selection of other items beside wieners.

Meh. Milkshake was very good and fries were fresh/​hot. Weiner… warm at best.
Meh.

Well this place has a long time in the market I could say historical meaning had. Very clean, hot dog ok. Clean and friendly staff

Something about diners, particularly ones with history or apparent-​history, draws in the public regardless of food quality. I’ve seen this «diner nostalgia» all over the country: there’s a collective memory of some place where we all used to gather and have fun, and of course it’s still amazing. Not only must we eat there, but we must return repeatedly and gush about it to everyone we know.
Famous Hot Weiner, amazing you are not. I thought my meal was just below average, although my wife’s dislike was much greater. It tasted plasticy and bland, like everything had been purchased from the «cheap meat» bin at the supermarket.
Recommendations? Fix the food. There’s a trick done here with the preparation of the hot dogs that makes their meal unique, but I didn’t think it was particularly amazing. The sides were of lesser quality. You need a creative chef that’s willing to experiment with richer and higher quality components to the meals.

Hanover staple! Im not a hotdog fan so I go for the fries and chili. They have chicken sandwiches and burgers but all are shaped like a hotdog and come on a hotdog bun. The burgers are dry and don’t have much flavor until you cover them in chili. The service is fast even when it is packed. Im giving it a 3 stars cause the chili is its saving grace. It also has history, its been around for as long as I could remember.

One thing I like about this place is thick skin hot dogs but the dog tasted bland, just thick skin I like… Chili is horrible, it doesn’t taste like chili, more of watery tomato sauce with cheap ground beef. The hamburgers are horrible. The place is very small, a baby stroller will block everyone because there is no place to put away. Famous? It is either folks have no taste buds or they are lying to get you to stop by.

I use to love the place food is awesome… Great place to catch up over awesome pancakes or hot weiner. Plain and simple what made me forsake the broadway location is the mother daughter waitress team there in the mornings, ignorant is doesn’t even describe there attitude toward the customers. Do I expect cart wheels and rainbows no but I haven’t set foot in the broadway location as long as they are there I go to the dart drive one instead. i have tried and tried to get the daughter fired, complained, wrote letters and shes still there bringing the place down

I grew up on these dogs and burgers best ever!!! I feel any negs of the stale bun is mistaken for they flip dogs/​burgs w/​cheese top down on griddle toasting cheese bun? If i could have famous dogs/​burgs everyday i would!

This place is just Awful. The hotdogs are so bland that personally I would rather go to a convenience store and get one. Somehow the chili onions and hotdog (with a gross thick skin) all taste watered down. The «Shake» is just stirred up soft serve that is lacking in flavor as well. Our server was so pregnant she was about to pop, and wanted nothing to do with us. She spoke so softly you couldn’t hear her, and never checked on us. Despite 5 employees standing behind the counter I could not get the attention of any of them or our server and had to walk up and ask for a refill. You would think that with all of the «extra help» the place would be clean but it was the opposite! Bad food, bad service, bad standards.

local iconic insitution. if you like hotdogs this is your place. grilled hotdog with chili, mustard and the tiny minced onions that will give you bad breath for a week. their milkshakes are also fab.

What a great treat in the middle of hanover, pa!
The hot dog was perfect. Fries delicious. Service fantastic!

Just ate here and woah– I was blown away. I had a hot dog w/​everything, ham egg and cheese w/​everything, French fries with everything and washed it all down with a strawberry milkshake.
Whatever you order you should get «everything» on it. That means loads of homemade «secret recipe» beef chili (simple but delicious) along with a mountain of sweet onions. It’s messy and you will defiantly smell after you’re done but it is awesome.
I never hear anyone talk about the milkshake but it really hit the spot and is highly recommended. I’m planning/​craving my next trip back already

I didn’t like this hot dog. I couldn’t eat all of it. Very tough skin. The onions smelled awful too and I love onions. The fries are good though!

This establishment is just a Mediocre place. The meal consisted of a rubbery, bland hot dog. The chili was mediocre, and the bun was too dense. Each bite consisted of too much bread with bland hot dog. The place is still popular more because of its history in the community, not because it has a good weiner. And «famous fries» that come out of a frozen bag from cisco aren’t famous. If you are in Hanover, PA you could try it, but don’t go out of your way for this place.

Good dog! Loaded with chili, chopped onion and mustard grilled to crispy perfection. All you can ask for a «famous hot weiner». In the weiner business since 1923 for good reason, and cold beer available.

At first, you snicker at the name if you are not from this town as I did, then the townies will stare at you blankly like they just don’t get what is purely comical about the name «Famous Hot Wiener». In fact, they might get a little rowdy thinking that you are insulting their long standing hot dog institution, but I giggle with nothing but love for the love on a bun that place pumps out.
They have some kind of crack in the food here because hot dogs shouldn’t taste this good. They split and grill them, then make them disappear under a 2″ slab of chili, cheese and onions (or whatever you ask for really). So great. Wash one down with a frosty beer and an order of gravy fries and you just might give yourself a heart attack from grease overload, but its pretty damn tasty even if you reek like body oder when you leave from the onions.