Holes-In-The-Wall

If you ever go to a PawSox night game, a trip to Olneyville New York System is a must. One of Rhode Island’s most famous hole-in-the-walls features Hot Wieners: an Ocean State specialty. If you go to Olneyville and order a hot dog, they won’t know what you’re talking about. In fact, they’ll probably bust your chops. It may be embarrassing to order a hot wiener, but the dish itself is worth any brief humiliation you may suffer.

The NY System is a Weiner smothered in hot mustard, celery salt, chili, and onions. Messy, greasy, heavy, absolute bliss. The perfect meal after having a few drinks at McCoy Stadium or hitting up the bars in Providence.

Hot wieners aren’t the only state specialty available at Olneyville NY System. Coffee Milk (the official state beverage of Rhode Island) is proudly served, and the perfect beverage to accompany your meal. A good preventative measure before partaking in any of these Rhode Island delicacies is to take a Prilosec. You don’t want to be tasting chili dogs and coffee milk on your ride back home, if you catch my drift.

The inside of Olneyville is a typical late night diner, a perfect hole-in-the-wall, but a relatively famous one. Olneyville has three locations in Rhode Island, but as is most restaurants, the original is still the best. Olneyville NY System is a ‘can’t miss’ restaurant for anyone visiting Rhode Island.

Olneyville NY System: Providence, RI: A Rhode Island tradition, the Hot Wiener is a grilled beef, pork and veal natural casing wiener served "all the way" on a steamed bun covered in meat sauce (don't even think of calling it "chili") with onions, mustard and celery salt. Then washed down with sweet coffee milk, another Rhode Island original.

There are dozens of different stands with the words "NY System" and "Hot Wiener" in the Providence area, but Olneyville is considered one of the best, where cooks line 10 or 20 dogs "up the arm" dressing them with mustard and sauce at a lightning pace.

Olneyville NY System: 18 Plainfield St, Providence RI;