OUTSTANDING hot dog places in the New York metropolitan area:
ARTIE'S DELICATESSEN 2290 Broadway (83rd Street); (212) 579-5959.
BEN'S BEST 96-40 Queens Boulevard (63rd Drive), Rego Park, Queens; (718) 897-1700.
BROOKLYN DINER USA 212 West 57th Street; (212) 977-2280.
CHEZ LENARD By 454-458 Main Street, Ridgefield, Conn.; (203) 431-6324.
DOMINICK'S Woodhaven Boulevard and 65th Road, Rego Park, Queens. Another truck, D'ANGELO'S, is at Woodhaven Boulevard and 63rd Road.
GRAY'S PAPAYA 2090 Broadway (72nd Street); (212) 799-0243. Other locations: 539 Eighth Avenue (37th Street), (212) 904-1588; 402 Sixth Avenue (Eighth Street), (212) 260-3532.
HALLO BERLIN Stand at 54th Street and Fifth Avenue, (212) 947-9008; restaurant at 626 10th Avenue (44th Street), (212) 977-1944.
KATZ'S DELICATESSEN 205 East Houston Street (Ludlow); (212) 254-2246.
NATHAN'S FAMOUS (Coney Island) 1310 Surf Avenue; (718) 946-2202.
OLD TOWN BAR 45 East 18th Street; (212) 529-6732.
PAPAYA KING 179 East 86th Street, (212) 369-0648; 121 West 125th Street, (212) 665-5732.
SECOND AVENUE DELI 156 Second Avenue (10th Street); (212) 677-0606.
SHAKE SHACK Madison Square Park (Madison Avenue and 23rd Street); (212) 889-6600.
SYD'S 2933 Vauxhall Road, Union, N.J.; (908) 686-2233.
THE PATIO First Avenue and 47th Street; (917) 446-0018.
TOMMY'S ITALIAN SAUSAGE AND HOT DOGS 900 Second Avenue, Elizabeth, N.J.; (908) 351-9831.
TOP DOG 118 River Road Extension, Cos Cob, Conn.; (203) 661-0573.
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