Wannabe Celebrity Birria Dogs

Preparation info
  • Makes

    5

    hot dogs
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Birrias: 65 Recipes from Traditional to Modern

By Jesse Valenciana

Published 2025

  • About

There used to be an iconic restaurant in Chicago that was dubbed an “encased meat emporium,” by its beloved owner/operator, Doug Sohn. Doug is a friend, and I’ve never told him, but I have always looked at him like a mentor. So much so that I have a tattoo on my right butt cheek of the logo of his now closed sausage superstore, Hot Doug’s.

Doug made art with his encased meat creations. One of my favorite food claims to fame was havi