Coney Dog appears as a signature dish in 1 United States cities. See each city's local variant and where to eat it.
Coney dog · Detroit
The Coney dog is a Detroit hot dog topped with chili-style meat sauce, yellow mustard and chopped raw onion, served on a steamed bun. Greek immigrant invention.
Around 1917, Greek immigrant Gust Keros opened American Coney Island at 114 W Lafayette. His brother William opened Lafayette Coney Island next door in 1924. Both claim the same Coney dog recipe with different chili-style meat-sauce variations. The rivalry has run for over a century and the two storefronts still stand side by side. Detroit Coneys differ from New York hot dogs and Cincinnati chili: the dog is a natural-casing beef and pork from Dearborn-based Koegel or Kowalski, the bun is steamed, the meat sauce is finer than Cincinnati and beanless.
Where to eat in Detroit:
- Lafayette Coney Island
- American Coney Island