Crave Hot Dogs & BBQ

Mark Poston

Anytime I spend $135 on two people I expect good memories. This is not the case for Crave Hot Dogs. To purchase a beer you have to preload a card that operates the self-serve beer taps. The system let's you choose from multiple taps and charges by the ounce, that includes foam. The problem is during my experience I had to return to the counter five times to get my card re-authorized, that means standing in line ever single time. My son and I estimated we drank 7 beers total, maybe 8 if they counted the one foam filled glass. The bill for the beer was over $70. The food experience wasn't much better. The menu is promising with some great selections, but I am not sure the end result matches the wonderful photos on the menu. I ordered macaroni and cheese topped with BBQ brisket served in a iron skillet. What I was served was a cold skillet with barely warm macaroni and cheese, topped with warm brisket with a handful of cold shredded cheese on top. The brisket was hot enough to melt the cheese, but I was not standing in that line to get serviced. We finished the below average hot wings and requested a take-out box for our main courses to go home and heat them up in the microwave. The bill for the food portion was around $65 and probably fair if it was served correctly.

Michael Tetterton

My wife and I went for the first time this evening. I ordered a $15 brisket plate, asked for fries as the side got cold tots, my wife repeatedly asked for the brisket, Mac and cheese SANDWICH and was served the bowl instead. On top of that my meal which should have been no more than $10 for the amount I was given, the coleslaw was turning brown and gross, my brisket was 90% grease and the other 10% was hard chopped up pieces and fat. The employees were outside smoking and acted like it was a burden to be doing their jobs. We literally watched someone stand waiting to order and then walked out. The man taking our order was obviously intoxicated and all the red flags were there. Also they laughed when my wife told them their sprite was out and the young woman said it was fine until her male coworker said try it. So they knew it was bad and didn't do anything about it!!!! They are rude don't care and the amount of food you get for a $15 "brisket plate" is ridiculous. Will not be returning!!!! The picture below is just and example of some of the grease that was in the brisket the rest of the bowl was at least still half full of grease. I ended up throwing out my food and my wife and I shared her dish which was okay and again though was not what she had ordered but it was definitely a waste of $30 I regret giving them a tip when I ordered but as someone who has worked in the industry I always leave a tip. It was completely dead and they couldn't be bothered to clean the dirty tables or the bathroom that had mildew on the toilet pee on the floor and incredibly unsanitary. Train your employees better and drug test!

Eric Odditorium

Delicious hot dogs & bratwurst with just the right amount of snap. Steamed buns and a wide variety of toppings.

Kelly C

We are not usually in this part of town but I remembered Crave was over here and thought we would give it a try. Extremely disappointed and have no plans to ever return. Three of us walked in and no one said a word to us, we look at the 2 screens in front of us to order and I was looking for the corn nuggets I saw online before I didn't see them. I asked cashier if they had fried corn nuggets, she said yes but they baked. But it wasn't in a friendly way at all, very snarky. I ordered a plain pulled chicken sandwich told her nothing on it and corn nuggets. My mother in law goes order and the lady just says WAIT. I go walk off to get my water and sit down. It wasn't until we were sitting that we noticed there is a 3rd menu screen located on another wall above the register. Look at one of my photos showing all 3 screens. The lady taking our order could have easily mentioned that the sides were on that screen when I inquired about the corn nuggets, but I guess she didn't feel the need.. We are all sitting down when the gentleman who was cooking comes over and basically throws the trays of food at my mother in law & myself. She only had a sandwich and my nuggets are her tray. My sandwich was not plain, they put pickles and some sauce on it but I pick the pickles off and eat it anyway. The bun was cold and sandwich was not very good at all. I end up giving most of it to my mother in law to give to her dog in the car. My husband ordered a sausage dog and it had shredded cheese on top, look at picture I took, cheese isn't even melted! It cost almost $10. I had sandwich and nuggets. MIL had just sandwich and husband had only hot dog. We all drank waters. Meal was almost $40! Insane. Didn't even taste good and service sucked.