Frank talk: Hot dog cocktail bar is coming to Walnut St.
Destination Dogs, out of central New Jersey, has a deal for the old Farmers' Cabinet.
What happens when your hobby is world travel and your guilty pleasure a hot dog?
Destination Dogs - a hot dog emporium-slash-cocktail bar with four-year-old roots in New Brunswick, N.J. - is planning to take 1111 Walnut St., which until its July 2014 eviction was The Farmers' Cabinet.
DD got good notice in 2014 from the New York Times,
The extensive, pun-filled menu includes house-made wieners topped with ingredients suggesting far-flung destinations, such as the Charles Dog Gaulle, bearing the airport callsign CDG and consisting of duck sausage with duck confit, shaved foie gras, and Dijon mustard. And The Howlamo, which has San Antonio (SAT) as inspiration; it's as wild boar sausage with pork belly, chicharrones, baconaisse, and scallions. HAN is a Vietnam-inspired dog dubbed as a bun mi, with pork sausage, shaved foie gras, pickled vegetables, jalapeños, sriracha mayo, and cilantro.
Cocktails, beers, and a few wines make up the drink list. There's a game room, too.
DD partners Jimmy Cronk, whose wife was a travel agent, and Haddonfield's Sean Hosty met while worked together at Clydz, also in New Brunswick.
Hosty says they hope to open in late spring.
Perhaps by coincidence, Bareburger - a New York-rooted bar specializing in burgers - is next door.
