The Wiener's Circle

We heard about an event of discounted hot dogs due to Chappell Roan's performance at Lollapalooza. Many fans came to get some hot dogs. We arrived at Weiner Circle close to 4 pm, we stood near the entrance with our dog. We saw some fabulous drag queens all donned up looking absolutely beautiful. When 4 o'clock rolled around, we went in to place in our order. I ordered the Chicago style hot dog (for Joseph) and a vegetarian hot dog for me. The service ended up being quick. Weiner Circle developed a reputation of the staff cursing at the customers. Upon seeing a long line build up outside of Weiner Circle, the staff worked quickly. The female manager used the microphone to get the customers pumped about being at the Weiner Circle. The vegetarian hot dog tasted fine. It came with small hot green peppers, radish, and tomatoes. The drag queens made the experience fun and noteworthy. When placing orders, expect to hear from the foul mouth staff.

Based on one visitSaw this place on Adam Witt's You Tube video with Dennis Lee who is a Chicago food writer. So decided to give it a try.We bought a few Vienna Red Hot Char dogs with everything. The dogs came off what appeared to be a charcoal grill. The hot dogs were excellent just as advertised. They were around $7.50 each. Ingredients seemed very fresh and flavorful. Crispy pickle and onions, and tasty tomato. The ordering was chaotic and be advised there will be heckling as part of the service. Its pretty fun but not for everyone. Totally fine with heckling but the confusion of what I owed seems to be due to the fact they took orders 3-4 people deep then forgot who ordered what when time to pay between the two people. Should you come here? I think so. The picnic tables outside offer allot of space to sit and the hot dogs were great. Old style charm is abundant.If you come at night apparently its pretty loud and crazy at times. We came during the afternoon and it was calmer.

They weren't rude, but maybe that's because I was here on a Thursday.The hot dog and fries here are solid and good, but unexceptional. Dog had a nice char, Chicago-style toppings were fresh, and fries were fresh-cut and well-salted but could have been crispier.I probably wouldn't go out of the way for this when there's more interesting other options as a Chicago visitor, but I'd definitely go late at night (even sober!) when it's the last thing open.

When in Chicago you need to get your hot dogs from the Wiener Circle. The key is to get on the good side of the staff. You may know this place by reputation, so don't mess this up. How to do this - be confident and precise in your order. They don't have time to deal with your wishy-washy indecisiveness. I recommend the char polish Chicago style, but I don't think you can go wrong with anything on the menu. It's been a while since I've been here, and love what they did with the back. Came during the day so didn't get to experience the nighttime bar, but a great upgrade from the dusty parking lot.

Finally made it to the weiners circle randomly. We passed by the Vic and saw pop star Chappell Roan was playing an aftershow for Lollapalooza and she set up a pre-aftershow party at the weiners with drag queens serving up some... you guess it weiners! The line was around the block. The drag queens weee super friendly and nice and as usual the counter service was rude and comical with a nice GTFOH on the way out. So Chappell Roan whole style is over the top drag style. There were camera and a free ticket giveaway and a DJ spinning Chappell Roan's music so I got familiar with that. The food was pretty stock chicago dogs. It was crowded and I was hungry so I didn't get to snap a pic but they do have vegan dogs too. The fries were too saturated with grease though. But this is the second event held here. That I've seen. Last was a pop up with the DJ Marshmello. So definitely worth checking out. It's a great strip of restaurants with plenty to do. Fun times!

THEY ADDED THEIR OWN TIP TO MY TRANSACTION!! BEWARE! The food is trash anyways and over priced. How do you explain $20 for a drink and one hotdog

Carbon copy of the old Ed Debevic's thing of giving customers sh*t that has gotten old. And how many times do we have to hear the shake joke?The food is average at best with some things like the burgers being below average. Look at the relish. It looks radioactive. You can get a much better dog at Red Hot Ranch, Gene & Jude's, Superdawg's or Jimmy's. Even Portillo's is better. And all of them are a lot cheaper.

I lived a brief walk from The Wiener's Circle for a decade and had to return on a recent visit to my hometown. I got what I deserved!I miss their parking behind the building, but that's neighborhood progress, maxing out property space. About 20 interior spaces are marked by stools, but the experience is the staff's sassy approach, which is the visit's fun. They crushed me, and I enjoyed the heck out of it, particularly all of the abrupt sexual innuendo!I loved my chardog, but I received much criticism about using ketchup. Well, I am a native, and I don't give a damn. Relish rocked, and celery salt is a MUST in this town. A heaping order of fries was precisely as I remembered them. My friends who came with me loved every minute and enjoyed me bearing the brunt of the verbal barrage. But we all loved our food, which ALWAYS kicks ass.

5 stars got to come here 3 times during this trip (twice in one day!) so tried a bunch of different menu items. Suggestions - don't ever change Weiner Circle. Sat outside and enjoyed weather on the back patio expansion with the new added bar. Looks great but wasn't open. It's a must tourist stop, for bike tours the backspace makes it easy. Please keep the front room the same with the Yelling. I loved it Had a burger with perfect crisp fries! And a couple of different hot dog links. Now Remember the hotdog lady yells cause she cares. She has to be heard over 5 fryin pits, grills, steamer, old men that have lost their hearing and now have questions about the next 25 orders. She need you to hear her over all that noise. That's why she yells. She's not mad she standing in the middle of White noise. So dig deep and use your big big voice and Order your Weiner so she can hear you.

Came here to get cussed and fussed out. That didn't happen, but the food was good. My son and I watched some videos about this place and thought it would be a fun place to visit. When we went in, they were not too busy. They weren't super friendly, but not as rude as we expected. This might have been because I had a kid with me.They talk pretty fast and take orders pretty quickly. The prices are good and the food came out fast. I did notice that the cashier asked all of the other patrons for tips. Again, she probably didn't give me a hard time about a tip because I had my son with me. I ordered the Char Cheddar dog with fries. My son ordered a cheeseburger. The fries were really good. it seemed like they were fresh cut. They were seasoned perfectly, not too salty. No ketchup needed for the fries. The cheddar dog was amazing. All of the flavors blended well. If I had known it tasted so good, I would've ordered two. My son said that he enjoyed his burger.Char Cheddar Dog 1-5=4.5.Fries 1-5=4.