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The Sonoran hot dog is a bacon-wrapped grilled link in a steamed bolillo bun, loaded with pinto beans, onions, tomato, mayo, mustard and jalapeno salsa.
The Sonoran hot dog crossed the United States border from Hermosillo, Sonora in the late 1980s and 1990s through Mexican-American street vendors who clustered on South 12th Avenue in South Tucson. Daniel Contreras started El Guero Canelo as a 6-by-8 foot cart in 1993; Benny Galaz of BK Tacos sold a thousand dogos a day from his cart at age 21. The James Beard Foundation recognized El Guero Canelo with America's Classic 2018, naming Contreras the 'leading hotdoguero' in the American epicenter of the form.
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El Guero Canelo ★ 4.8
south-tucson · 5201 S 12th Ave, Tucson, AZ 85706
El Guero Canelo on South 12th Avenue in Tucson is the James Beard 2018 Sonoran hot dog flagship from Daniel Contreras, the founding Tucson dogo.
BK Tacos ★ 4.6
south-tucson · 5118 S 12th Ave, Tucson, AZ 85706
BK Tacos on South 12th Avenue in South Tucson is Benny Galaz's Sonoran hot dog chain founded as a cart in the 1990s, with bacon-wrapped dogos and caramelo.
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