Dat Dog — Restaurant in New Orleans

A good go-to spot for a group- pretty much something for everyone because you have a lot of freedom to choose your sausage and your toppings. Unique Louisiana flavors like crawfish sausage, alligator sausage, duck and Vaucresson creole hot sausage and about 40 toppings to choose from, as well as toppings for great tots and fries. You can pretty much get something new every time you go and for about $10 a person. All 3 locations (magazine st, freret st and frenchman st) offer a great experience for grabbing an easy lunch or dinner with outdoor seating.

So why 4 stars: The staff is pretty much all very friendly and helpful and you can tell they're busting their butts, but I think issues come from the top- they need to work on keeping staff morale up, I noticed a change months before the pandemic shutdown and with understaffing, it's understandably gotten worse bc of the customers being impatient with them. The vibe of Dat Dog has always been bright and fun (look at the decor), staff actually looked like they enjoyed where they work, and it's sort of lost that, which made it special. I hope the owners step back and take the time as we recover from Covid and Ida to repair some of the tables and their relationship...

We came in with a group of 10 on Friday to grab a quick bite while shopping. We had heard great things about the place and we’re really looking forward to it! However, the customer service was absolutely terrible from one bartender specifically. There were two bartenders, one of which was solely making drinks and standing there when she wasn’t making drinks. And the other that was taking orders, putting them in, etc. After about 10 minutes of standing at the bar, we called over the bartender making drinks to make sure this is where we were supposed to order. She rudely said to us that they only had one computer working and so we were going to have to wait. This is after 10 minutes of us seeing her make a drink and then stand there and passing by us multiple times without saying a word. As someone with a background in customer service, it would have been really simple for her greet us and let us know they would be with us soon. Instead, she was rude and hostile with us the second we stepped foot at the bar.

However, the other bartender taking orders was so pleasant and kind! We all felt...

This is definitely a casual counter service with really nice people who work there. A friend of mine who visited here from San Francisco recommended I go there and have an alligator sausage. So I ordered the alligator with the sauce that I don’t remember the name of, but it was delicious. I have to admit that alligator or something that we should try yet it’s probably not my favorite… However, the sausage was well-made and the other options looked very tempting. I wish I had had time to get back there and try some of the other ones.

I loved the variety of toppings that they had available. And it was a really fun selection.

I was impressed with the bun. It wasn’t a typical hotdog bun. It was a very light delicious bun that held up to the sausage that had a uniquely fresh taste.

If I get back to New Orleans, I will absolutely go try some of the other things. This is nice because it is reasonably priced great place to bring people who want to try different things and they have both indoor outdoor seating and I believe they also serve adult soft drinks very...