Lucky Louie’s Sausage & Hot Dogs

This was a food «trailer» that came to a parking lot on St. Vincent campus. I ordered a smoky Louis and a Chicago dog. Portions were solid. Definitely recommend 2 dogs/​sausages for a meal. The Smoky Louis was adequate. The sausage itself was rather dry. The giardinera was quite bland. Not a lot going on and would have benefitted from a juicier sausage and more flavorful giardinera. Maybe add some peppers.
The Chicago dog was nice, although it should be called a Chicago-​ish dog as I’m not sure the dog is a Vienna beef dog and for sure the bun is not a poppy seed bun. All the other components were there, however, and it tasted great. Next time I might skip the sausage and order two dogs.
The sides of jalapeño or regular chips are merely an afterthought. Would be nice to have some more options. Either way this was a solid lunch and I’d like to try some other menu items.

I’ve eaten at Lucky Louie’s many times. The service is always fast and the presentation is great. My favorite is the Caprese Dog but the Chili Dog is a close second.

I find myself incredibly surprised that Lucky Louie’s, a food truck serving hot dogs and sausages, isn’t already to be found in the Unilocal universe. Now in its second season, Lucky Louie’s serves up a fairly basic of menu of about a half dozen hot dog combinations ranging in price from $ 5 – 6 with beef, veggie, and other options available. Additionally, they have three different sausage options priced from $ 6 – 7 along with a couple of combo options where you can add chips and a drink for $ 2 more. They do also offer some pretty awesome catering options you can check out on their website — from the looks of it, they’d be a great option for a party or family gathering of some sort.
I ordered the Lucky Louie for $ 5, a 100% all-​beef Hebrew National available with a variety of toppings. I turned it into a combo that included a bottled water and a bag of BBQ chips.
The guy working the food truck, I could only dream it was actually Louie, was incredibly friendly and helpful. Among food trucks, $ 7 for an entire meal is really quite good. I ordered the hot dog plain (I’m boring), though mostly because I’m a spastic paraplegic and I was at work — I could just picture ketchup flying everywhere and heading back to work looking like I’d just starred in Food Truck Massacre.
The Lucky Louie was good and I would certainly eat it again. It was a fairly meaty hot dog with good flavor, though definitely not the best hot dog I’ve ever had. The potato chips were Jay’s — they were also good, but on top of a plain hot dog and my generic Marsh purified water it all felt fairly plain and bland. I felt like I was at a minor league baseball game (Sorry Indians!).
In fact, this may end up being one of my shorter reviews simply because everything I had was simply «good» and there’s not a whole lot to be said about it. If I’m not at work the next time I experience Lucky Louie’s, or there’s some cute blonde around whom I can flirtatiously ask to wipe my mouth, I may get more adventurous and try one of the other options to see if that rating creeps up a bit. If I had my way, this would probably be a 3.5 but 4 just doesn’t feel right and my overwhelming sense was that this isn’t a place destined to be wildly popular if you look around and see a bunch of other trucks. That said, I had a fairly priced meal that I enjoyed and have no doubt that I’d go back. So, 3-​stars sounds just about perfect and there’s a decent chance it’ll creep up to at least a 4 once I’ve tried another one or two of their offerings.