Time-tested establishment featuring traditional hot dogs & hamburgers since 1918.
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Texas Hot Dogs is an Altoona institution. My father and his father snacked at this exact location. The rustic setting inside remains unchanged from my past 30 years of memory, complete with the classic "Pepsi" lunch board listing the items and their prices.
The go to order is "Two with everything," meaning, two hot dogs with their homemade Texas sauce, onions, and mustard. I like to add pepper. The Mac and Cheese with Texas sauce is always a good selection too, but much more filling. There's also a number of other standard lunch grill items to order-- the Fried Mushrooms are really great, homemade and juicy. Wash it all down with a Chocolate Milk or a Birch Beer. If you're lucky, they do sometimes have pies in the cooler. Get the Lemon Mirangue!
Did I mention the prices? A Texas Dog is $1.70. Not too much more than when I started coming here over 20 years ago. Truly a must visit if you...
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I am confused why this place is rated so highly. Food was pretty awful. Dogs are just store bought and grilled on a flat top - they were chewy/rubbery with nothing special about it. Additionally, with a name like Texas Hot Dogs I was expecting the dogs to be a bit bigger than they were, but no. I even got my dogs with all of the fixings and still killed each one in three bites. Mac n Cheese was flavorless with nothing special about the chili that went on top of it either. Same chili is on the dogs. Giving it a two star because the people there were really nice, service is good, and it's cheap. But you get what...
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Criminally underrated food at every location. When I walked into this location I felt like I was looking at a 1980s list of prices. A burger for $5.20, sides for $3.65 but hot dogs being $2 is a more than other local spots. This is easily reconciled by quality. As soon as I related my order it was brought to me before I could even fully sit down. The service was faster than the cars that speed around the 12th avenue corner the shop is located on. My friend mushrooms were a undercooked in the middle but they had the batch fried up for me only 3 minutes later. I am never disappointed when I get hot dogs...
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