A grilled hot dog or Polish sausage in a toasted bun, smeared with cream cheese before the dog goes in and topped with grilled sweet onions, jalapeños and sriracha. The post-bar dog of Pike Place and Capitol Hill.
The Seattle Dog was reportedly invented in 1989 by hot dog cart vendor Hadley Long at his Pioneer Square location, who added cream cheese to a bagel-and-dog after a customer asked for an alternative to mustard. The cream-cheese-and-grilled-onion combination spread across late-night carts through the 1990s. Dick's Drive-In and Monster Dogs in Pike Place are the canonical city versions.
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