Hummel Bros

i absolutely love this place, the food, the prices & the staff. the best place for lunch with so many things to choose from. if you haven’t been here yet, you don’t know what you are missing.

Hard to find, weird once found, totally worth it!
Ok let me start off by saying the address on google maps might be their mailing address, or something but it will not get you to the Hummel factory store. I used the gps on my phone because the Long Wharf industrial area is ridiculous to navigate. This was a mistake. They are on the Church street extension, which you can’t actually get to from Church street anymore, but is also called Brewery street, see what I’m talking about? So, I called the store from the long wharf theatre parking lot, got directions from a very nice woman who clearly has helped wayward customers before, drove to the end, walked through the strange gravel fenced off section, and hopped the guard rail. This works just fine.
Inside, it was like a luncheonette with no chairs. For a moment I thought I was in the wrong place. It’s a weird sparse deli-​like store, but you can buy hummels 5 lbs at a time, or order a cooked one to eat right then and there (and accessorize it with chips and a snapple) so, yeah, I will be going back for that, now that I know about it.
I got a small pack each of knockwurst, skinless franks, and the red hots people always tell me are awesome. They were. (And totally worth the adventure.) Oh, and they close at 3:00pm, so plan ahead. Here’s my advice:
GPS B
rewery Street New Haven CT, keep going, stay to the left when it splits, and look for the Hummel bros sign, it’s right there.

If I ever leave the state of CT this will be one of the things (besides the great pizza) from NH that I will never find anywhere else. I LOVE HUMMELS and there is NO better hot dog. I don’t care what you think about «Ball park franks» or «Oscar Myer» and their weinercar, nothing is as good as a hummel hd. I love their flavor and they taste amazing crispy and grilled. A+++++++++

Good food, good prices, friendly staff. I haven’t had a bad meal from them yet and will continue to eat there

This Just in****HUMMELS HOTDOGS GO INTERSTATE****
New Haven native (NHN) returns home in search of REAL hot dogs. That’s right folks, real, flavorful, large hot dogs, better known as dinner franks. During BBQ season and tired of skinny, odd flavor meat scraps compacted into what looks like a hot dog, NHN goes to the best place for hot dogs– Hummel Bros.
Feeling overwhelmed by the potential to have real hot dogs, NHN gets 13lb Skinless Dinner Franks AND a pack of delicious Red Hots for the return trip down I-​95 to Maryland. And just when you thought it couldn’t get any better, NHN learns they can order these dinner franks and red hots on-​line and they can be shipped to MD.
Summer BBQ season in MD has been saved for one NHN now that REAL hot dogs have made it back to MD. Let the grilling begin!
*****This Ends the Breaking News Cast*****

$ 18.35 for 5lbs of natural casing dogs, $ 59 to fedex them to Chicago and you would think that would be an automatic NO but these are HUMMEL hot dogs and god dammit I am sick to death of these ridiculous Vienna beef monstrosities these poor Chicago people think are good. They clearly have never had a Hummel Hot Dog.
If anyone knows a way to get them out here for cheaper let me know.

AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW DOG
I HAD no Idea Hummel bros was a new haven thing THIS CHANGES THE GAME
all nite hot dogs, eat them hot dogs!!! WOOP WOOP swag!!!
I been eating there VERY RARE hot dogs since I was a lad and NEVER did I know they were grinding and casing these bitches right down the street from my face area
holla at me if you do tours hummel dudes ill be there ill rep you
this just in carl s is now official rep for hummel bros catch me at the owl shop giving out samples from my hibachi grill
EDIT: hummel dudes acksed me to tell u i am not offical rep, so im here to tell you i am unofficial rep for hummel hot dogs

Hummel Bros. makes good hotdogs.
The problem with Hummel Brothers is not their hot dogs, but their deli counter. It is disgusting. They are located in the terminal area off Sargent Drive. Everybody I work with gets his lunch there, and the place is unsanitary. There are large, nasty, sweaty women with tattooed necks who handle the food in a most unhygienic manner and then bark at the customers. The guys who work there aren’t much better. I have seen some really unclean practices at their deli counter. It is truly revolting.
On the other hand, they make good hotdogs.

Hummel Natural Casing Hot Dogs & Hummel Corned Beef = bliss.
Even the best, homemade European wieners have never given me this much pleasure and I have traveled a lot.
How best to rate Hummel quality? Off and on, I go vegan and raw vegan — and whenever I fall back on the meat-​wagon you can blame Hummel hot dogs.
Nothing the brothers produce is second-​rate. Not a gram of waste on the corned beef and the bologna is the only bologna I’ll eat.
If you’re in greater New Haven, you can go to Xpect discounts, a cut-​rate supermarket in East Haven (and Milford), where a 3-​pound box is 10.99, maybe a bit more. Unfortunately, I no longer live in CT, so I don’t have access to Hummels, except on those occasions when my ex– is driving into Manhattan and brings some in.
Worse, I may be moving to Pittsburgh for a job. Pittsburgh’s great, but Primante’s stick-​the-​french-​fries-​in-​the-​sandwich don’t do squat for me, so I’m thinking about getting Hummels frozen and sent to me Priority Mail.
No doubt they’ll lose a bit of taste, but a bad Hummel’s worth ten Hebrew Nationals or Nathans any day.
Did I mention they’re really really really good? Really? Yes, Priority Mail’s the way to go. And if they arrive a little slimy? Woohoo! Hot dog sliders come to Mama!

I’ve been eating Hummel corned beef for St. Patty’s Day for the last several years. We bought it at Stop&Shop that first year, but this year I got it at BJs. The first time we had Hummel’s corned beef, I liked it so much that I cleaned and saved the front of the package, folded into my favorite cookbook, so I’d remember the name. Now I remember the name without prompting and recommend it to all my friends. The first time we had it, we bought the point cut and loved it, but I was able to get the flat cut when I bought it at BJs this year. Happy St. Patty’s Day!

The Hot Dogs are to Die For. Best Hot Dog I ever had. My cousin Lives in CT. and introduced me to them and now I’m hooked. I live in New York and I make a trip to CT. Just to buy these. (My cousin never saw me so much in her life). I have purchased other cuts of meats from them as well as they have a great selection of smoked and cured meats that no supermarket can match. For an original flavor and a taste of quality this place is a must. They do have other things like salad and soup that I have not tried yet but if they are as good as the meats, I’m sure you won’t be disappointed.

Just had their lean pastrami and it is outstanding. You can get their stuff at many local supermarkets, so no need to go out to their Longwharf HQ. But New Haven should be proud to have them.

Hummel Brothers is a New Haven tradition. Hummel’s is known for their fabulous hot dogs. Family-​owned and operated!
I did business with Hummel in the past, and let me tell you… the family is as nice as can be. And I’ve been inside the place… now I have in mind what you might normally expect for a hot dog maker… but let me tell you that this place is as clean as can be. The inside is spotless, and they only use the freshest ingredients.
They also have a really great deli out front that serves great soups, sandwiches and, of course, Hummel dogs.
Good people, great dogs. If you’re buying hot dogs for the next big picnic, go with Hummel’s!

Hidden in the industrial center of New Haven, in the largest parking lot around, stands the faded brick building of Hummel Brothers. The Brothers Hummel provide hot dogs and deli meat to the world and New Haven’s finest local businesses. While Hummel’s produces several different kinds of cured and boiled hams, turkey, and countless other cold cuts, it is hot dogs that they are the most renowned for. Hot Dogs are summer food. You can eat one or a hundred depending on your mind set and stomach lining. Being that it is summer and the bloggers just relined their stomachs, they set off to enjoy this most New Haven of food.
The surrounding buildings, including Hummel’s processing and shipping plant itself (along with another New Haven food plant Lamberti Sausage) provide a very cinematic environment. Giant yellow concrete bricks and trash cans filled only with caution tape are placed around great lake puddles that form in industrial areas such as this. Metallic clangs of machines could be mistaken for either a rehearsal of «Stomp» or the music of the spheres. Film in Cinemascope and you’ll make Antonioni proud.
The chemistry of the hot dog is unknown to Hans and Mendez. The way that scrap parts of pig are brought together to form a sausage of uniformed smooth texture and reliable taste is one of the great mysteries of our time. To share our love of this food with you, we will not mention meat slurry, variety meats, sodium nitrate, or MSG. To be honest, after researching hot dogs Hans is unsure about eating one again. Also uncertain are his feelings regarding hot dog flavored water, a seminal musical expression of our time.
The Hummel Bros house a compact deli; Think of a large handicap bathroom, multiply the square footage by two and you have the perimeter of the store. The walls, soda cooler, and shelves are lined with bright brand names: Wonderbread, Coca-​Cola, Ruffles, etc. There is a salad bar next to the cooler which, on this day of visitation, would turn off a vegetarian from chlorophyll forever.
The menu offers a variety of options including a daily special of soup or pasta. Who goes to Hummel’s for soup on a summer day? The stuffed shells and meatballs looked fresh and homemade, but the bloggers were not here for Sunday dinner. Hans and Mendez ordered a hot dog each and shared a kielbasa. Mendez ordered his dog with the «works», just to say it. Once out of the deli clerk’s eye sight he scraped the sauerkraut into a paper bag. Hans stayed modest with relish. The dogs are split in the middle and cooked on a grill, allowing the condiment to stay firmly in place atop the dog. The pinkish color of the hot dog is not tainted by this cooking process. The meal was delicious costing us around ten dollars total. For the full New Haven experience, Hans and Mendez suggest Foxon Park Soda.
The location of Hummel brothers is off putting; you really have to be in the area or a hot dog fiend to seek it out. The clientele suggested truck drivers stopping off either the I-​91 or 95 highway for a bite to eat. It suggest that they might be picking up or dropping off product to the factory itself. The deli’s hours of operation are from 11 am to 2:30 pm, so plan ahead. Asides from two other delis (Johny Salomi being an exact replica of Hummel’s, but with a better name, only a few hundred feet away) and a silly Teen Center for Twentysomethings, the Long Wharf Theater neighbors Hummels. Look out for Hans and Mendez’ world première of «Choco Taco: An All Musical Review» starting in late September.

HUMMEL hot dogs (hotdogs) are the best. That’s why Duchess Restaurants uses only that brand. The Hummel factory, in Long Wharf, New Haven, is a «must see.» The Hummel factory operates a real, complete deli that’s open to the public. Great soups and, of course, deli sandwiches made with perfectly thin-​sliced Hummel meats.
If you’re courteous and patient while waiting to get to the head of the line, you might be allowed to see hotdogs being made. Hummels with casings on get nicely crinkled and crunchy when roasted! Gimmie a Hummel with a shmear of mustard and a forkful of kraut!

My boyfriends from the East Coast and one thing he always says is, «you haven’t had a hotdog until you’ve tried a Hummel’s hotdog.»
I actually boycotted hotdogs because … well, I was always unsure of what was actually in hotdogs.
So I went to the East Coast and was introduced to the Hummel hotdog and frankly, as good as these hotdogs are, I don’t care what’s in them. ;)

Best hot dogs PERIOD. Get ‘em here or get ‘em cooked at the Glenwood Drive-​In in Hamden, CT.

Well, I finally made it to the Hummel Store on Sargent Drive.
I got there 10 min. before closing b/​c it is a bit tricky to find and I got lost.
I am not really sure if I got a better price then I would have in the store.
I was just so excited that I found the place I didn’t care.
I bought Kielbasi, knockwurst and 2 types of frankfurters… the natural casing and the big bites.
I made the Kielbasi on the BBQ grill… totally awesome.
The owner must have thought I was nuts… I told him that he has no idea how hot Hummel hotdogs were in N.Y. Actually I don’t think he was to impressed either… maybe b/​c it was the end of the day or whatever. Hell, ya think he would of been as excited as I was.
All I know is I have enough Hummel products in my freezer to last quite a
while and the friends and relatives are happy also.
Also, thanks to Ed… I bought the kielbasi.

Amazing hot dogs. I don’t care if you like Nathan’s or Dietz & Watson or Hebrew National or Vienna Beef. As far as I’m concerned, Hummel Bros. makes the best hot dogs you will ever find.
If you are looking for something with a little more «kick,» then get some of the Georgia Red Hots. Also made by Hummels, they are seriously good spicy hot dogs that will leave you teary eyed.

Hummel’s hot dogs are the BEST in the nation. Hands down. No contest.
I chuckle when my friends in other parts of the country say their favorite brands are Nathans, Sbarrett or Hebrew National. Those brands don’t even remotely compare to Hummel’s hot dogs. It’s unfortunate for many out-​of-​staters that Hummels only distributes locally.