A Banner Month for The Red Hot
It is no secret that the month of June has been good to The Red Hot (2914 6th Avenue). The much-loved hot dog, beer and wine joint has been featured on Food Network’s Chef Vs. City program, and has recently been listed on Yahoo! Travel as one of the country’s top hot dog destinations.
At this Tacoma tavern, the experience is as much about the beefy bundles of joy as it is about the cold brews. It’s like Cheers, only better—a watering hole with some of the most delicious and inventive red hots.
Against the urgings of my better metabolic angels, I am a regular at The Red Hot. It is a mere two blocks from my front door, and has often served as the decompression chamber after a rough day at the office; or just as frequently, the reward for some dreary fitness regime. For me (and many others, I’m sure), The Red Hot is already an institution and a necessity. I am happy to share its greatness with television viewers and Yahoo! Travel readers — but only as long as I am still able to find a seat.
Since opening its doors in the summer of 2007, The Red Hot has swiftly won a place in the pantheon of Tacoma gathering places. The ever-rotating beverage selection reflects a solid knowledge of ales unaffected by even a hint of snobbery and a genuine focus on quality wines (check out Wino Wednesday). This focus on quality and variety perfectly complements the menu of famously hearty frank fare.
So, to the crew at The Red Hot, we at Exit133 offer our sincere congratulations.
More information at RedHotTacoma.com
Filed under: tacoma-business, 6th-avenue
25 comments
A Altered Chords June 30, 2010
Are kids allowed at the Red Hot?
R Razorhoof June 30, 2010
nope.
A Altered Chords June 30, 2010
My kids are the only hot dog fans I know. My kids eat vitamin and mineral free fats and sugars. Exclusively. The want to be nothing like their day who eats low fat/sugar vitamin/mineral rich foods.
I do like beer however and I am impressed by their beer menu.
Please don’t anyone try to sell me on “it’s ok if you only do it once in a while” You can say that about anything. Theres always another once in a while and before you know it you’re a schick-shadle trying out aversion therapy to help you kick the hot dog habit.
D dolly varden June 30, 2010
The Red Hot does have a veggie brat…
S Squid June 30, 2010
OK, veggie brat is just so wrong I don’t know where to start.
R RR Anderson June 30, 2010
but do they have corn dogs?
A Altered Chords June 30, 2010
you can get corn dogs at save a lot. frozen “food” section.
T Thorax O'Tool July 1, 2010
Try the North End Not-Dog.
It’s very, very good. Don’t judge before you taste, Squid….
K K. Malone July 1, 2010
Yeah!!! Congratulations Red Hotttt!
Y You're Welcome July 1, 2010
Thank you TRH and congrats.
C crenshaw sepulveda July 1, 2010
Actually you can probably get corn dogs at most supermarkets. A staple item in the frozen, so called, foods section. Save-A-Lot has no monopoly on the corn dog.
A Altered Chords July 1, 2010
Is there such a thing as a meatless corndog or are they all actually meatless anyway?
M MASTERblaster July 1, 2010
I lived on corn dogs for a few years.
Do not recommend it. Your wasitline and cholesterol levels will take years to recover.
S Squid July 1, 2010
I would rather just eat vegetables in their native state, the way god intended, thank you very much.
S Squid July 1, 2010
AC: define “meat”.
A Altered Chords July 1, 2010
Squid – Please define “god”. While I’m waiting for that definition, I will define “meat” as the following:
food consisting of the muscle tissue of mammals, reptiles and some anphibians. According to the A/C nutrition guides, to be considered meat, the muscle tissue must have an after cooked fat to protein ratio of no more than 25%. As such, foods such as bacon, fatback and many sausages do not qualify as meat.
C Christine July 2, 2010
Bacon may not be meat, but it may be god.
J Jesse July 2, 2010
Bacon is “The Frosting of Meats” in the meat hiarchy here at my house.
A Altered Chords July 2, 2010
I completely omitted poultry from my list. That’s meat isn’t it?
Jesse – I love the slogan!
S Slim Jim July 2, 2010
Most hot dogs are not made from what we’d typically think of as “meat” (animal muscle)… hot dogs are mostly slaughterhouse remnants of bones, blood, skin and organs swept up off the factory floor, then ground, artificially colored, seasoned (with nitrate preservatives, MSG) and pressed into hot dog shapes. Seriously, there’s no secret about it, but you’d have to be in serious denial to eat one.
R RR Anderson July 2, 2010
The Hot Dogs in SlimJim’s world are kosher right?
A Altered Chords July 2, 2010
Kosher just means the animals are killed a certain way. Then they make kosher sirloin, rib eye, brisket, ground beef, new york steak, chuck etc. The left over stuff that slim describes is kosher left over stuff that is combined w/ kosher seasoning to make kosher dogs.
Jim’s post makes me envision a filthy factory where sweating guys wearing dirty boots use dirty brooms to sweep the crap off the floor and turn it into hot dogs. Pretty sure those days are long gone. I’m sure it’s clean as a whistle.
If you eat a hot dog, you’ll make yourself happy and live longer. If you eat nothing but hot dogs, you’ll suffer from malnutrition.
It’s all about balance people.
I still like their beer menu.
S Squid July 2, 2010
AC: your dog is barking up the wrong tree if you think I can define “god”, which I notice is dog spelled backwards. Coincidence? I think not. Circle of Life.
I wish I was an Oscar Meyer wiener…
A Altered Chords July 2, 2010
@23: Must be why they don’t let kids in the Red Hot.
Kids don’t choke on beer though so what the heck?
@24: Defining meat wasn’t so easy either Squid but at least I didn’t just give up.
S Squid July 6, 2010
I SAID dog spelled backwards, is that not sufficient? It’s a zen thing.