Top Wieners

By WJamesWood32 in USA
May 16, 2011
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Do you love hot wieners? What a dumb question, of course you do! What about the best hot wieners in all of Rhode Island? Hey, you! That’s enough! Wipe that drool off the floor this minute—have some class! We all know how much you love hot wieners, so never fear. We here at Let's Go love hot wieners, too. So, as always, we've got you covered on your wiener-hunt through Providence. But do us a favor: don’t call them hot dogs. Never. Ever. Ever. You can call them wieners and you can call them “gaggers”—so of course, you should call them gaggers (pronounced "gaggahs")—but you absolutely cannot call them hot dogs. No excuses. Now that that’s out of the way, here we are: the three best wieners in Providence!

1. Olneyville N.Y. System – “R.I.’s Best Hot Wieners” is their slogan, and they aren’t kidding. Even though Olneyville is about a five minute bus ride from downtown, the wieners are absolutely irresistible. The quality of the wieners coupled with the unbeatable price (less than two dollars per wiener, but let’s be real: no one’s going home after eating just one) puts Olneyville’s pride and joy at the top of the wiener charts for Providence. Order up two or three wieners—despite being “gaggers,” they really aren’t that big—topped with the “special” wiener sauce and mysterious chili-onion-like substance, a plate of fries, and a large coffee-milk and dig in. Wieners don’t get hotter (or better) than this. It might have a New York name, but this baby is all Rhode Island.
Traveler’s tip: It’s marketed as “hangover food” and the place stays open almost until dawn, but go earlier. Some travellers report that Olneyville is not a place you want to be past midnight.

2. Haven Brothers Diner — Imagine a diner, then put that diner on wheels, and then put that diner-on-wheels at the intersection of Dorance and Fulton Streets for over two hundred years. And there you have it, folks: Havens Brothers. Everything that was said for the Olneyville “gagger” can be applied here, except the wieners are a little more expensive, but the price is easily surmounted by the diner’s location in the middle of downtown. All in all, one of the neatest places I’ve been—Haven Brothers is the only place that you can order “in” and still eat in a car.

3. Modern Diner — This diner is technically in Pawtucket, R.I., just ten or twenty minutes outside of Providence. But if you’re a diner junky, you can’t pass this one up. It's the first diner in American history, and their hotdogs are still remarkably fresh. Shoot, I said hotdogs! Their wieners I mean, and they're are delicious. If you get a chance to head north to Pawtucket, these wieners are the only real attraction, so you’ll probably end up at Modern whether you want to or not.