I just wanted to let everyone know that New England Hot Dog Company has opened on Route 9 North in New Jersey recently. I went there and think it's really worth a trip. It's in Freehold near Burlington Coat Factory, in the same mall.
First off, the dogs aren't fried like a Rutt's or anything which was a little disappointing for me at first, they're grilled or steamed (you decide), BUT what made up for that is the sheer number of toppings and dog types!
First, there's 12 types of dogs. Okay they're not all dogs. They have: all beef kosher, big beef dog, bratwurst, foot long dog, kielbasa, italian sausage, organic, natural casing, pork/beef dog, vegetarian dog, and black angus. So many choices. I went with two natural casing dogs. Those are standard.
Then there's the toppings! 39 of them to be exact! I won't go through them all here, but there's some of your standards such as 5 types of mustard, ketchup, green and red relish, etc. Then there's some more unusual stuff such as peanut sauce, russian dressing, poppy seeds, jalapeno ketchup, blue cheese dressing, etc.
They make their own ipswich mustard, baked beans, brown bread, coleslaw, and chili right in store. I could be wrong about the mustard, but I think that's what he told me.
Their hotdog rolls aren't exactly rolls. They're kind of like a nicer slice of white bread. It's like white bread folded, but better and stronger.
You can put whatever toppings you like on your dogs, but I tried some of the premade combinations. There's thirteen different combinations. Here's what I had:
AMHERST - Buffalo sauce, blue cheese and celery salt. --- Excellant. Not too hot and the blue cheese gave it a really nice flavor as did the celery salt. My only worry is that when I go back I won't want to try new flavors, I'll keep eating this one.
IPSWICH - Covered with the “world’s best Ipswich Ale Mustard”, sweet red pepper relish and chopped onions. --- Loved it as well. Don't know what I'll order next time as I loved them both.
My Girlfriend had an Amherst also as well as:
BOSS DOG - Bacon bits, sauteed onions, chili, nacho cheese, and jalapenos.
There's a few other things you can get there and Boylan's soda. You can check out their full menu here:
http://www.nehotdog.com/Freehold%20menu.pdf With a name of "New England" I had no idea what to expect of their hotdogs. Now I expect I'll be back there every few weeks I think. It's about a 20 or 25 minute drive for me. Rutt's Hutt is about an hour unfortunately.
