This is one of my favorite place to visit every time I'm in the Chesapeake area visiting my family. I was on one day trying to find something to eat and I stumbled across this great place here you go in the ambience is great. They have a lot of different signs on the wall with many different quotes, which is the icing on the cake you go and sit down read a couple quotes get a couple laughs and get served with great food I live in New Jersey but when I tell you, this place is worth a drive it's worth every penny of it. The food is top-tier definitely made with love and you can taste it in every bite I had the Ruben, which taste exactly like a Reuben that you would get out of the city from Carnegie. They definitely have that true authentic taste to it. We tried the foot-long all the way as well as the kielbasa and hot sausage all the way please if you are in this area make your way over here you want more bread from the service all the way to the food you're gonna be impressed and you're gonna feel as if you're at home. read more

Food was excellent and service was super fast. The special of the day means free drink and fries.

Best chili in tidewater! Love the decor and people. Been looking for a joint like this since I got here in 1990. Thanks! read more

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Thanks to my friend for suggesting this place. The vibe and staff friendliness are definitely 5 stars! Decor/ambiance is homey, cute, colorful, bright - 5 stars as well. They serve all kinds of hot dogs and sides, even shakes and sandwiches. I ordered their ruff skin dogs (gives you that crunchy bite (all beef) and side of onion rings. You can order sauerkraut, mustard to come with your hotdog or their house sauce and ketchup are just fine condiments. You definitely know their onion rings are not frozen, made from scratch since you get the tip part of the sweet onion as well. I would have liked the batter to be a tad crunchier and with more texture but overall good. read more

L.A. Dog - Hot Dogs Near Me - Chesapeake, Virginia

Waitress was very friendly and welcoming. Love the decor! I really enjoyed my Reuben- bread was toasted just right. I do think the fries are over priced since they are standard fries and you don't get very many. But, I would definitely go back and maybe go side less or choose another one. When you're in the area, check them out! read more

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I love this little spot. Great food and friendly staff. They have a variety of hotdogs types as well as other options such as burgers, etc. read more

Love this place! Great staff! Fun ambience (take the time to read it all. It will put a smile on your face!) It's LA dogs, so we always get the hot dog or sausage. The onion rings are delicious as well as the fries. You can sit at the counter and see the whole operation. Will return again and again! read more

Food was decent but $50 for hotdogs, fries and drinks? Lesson learned... There is making a profit and then there is sheer greed...

I am definitely a tuff skin kind of gal! I mean there hot dogs! There hot dogs keeps returning pretty much once a week. Plus I love the decore and the,staff is pretty awesome! Total local favorite, and mine too. I pretty much order tuff skin all beef with kraut and mustered. Always yummy! read more

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The service and food are constantly good. We'll continue to return. Good tiff dogs and chilli

My husband got a burger and fries - He said the burger was bland , not cooked on a hot enough grill from the texture and taste of burger. Fries portion was small and just run of the mill taste- Nothing to brag about. We could have made everything better at home . The only positive was that the atmosphere was cute and eccentric. People were not too enthusiastic either ! Would not recommend for a $13 . Burger and fries. Maybe try somewhere else for a burger! read more

Wife and I had lunch there one back she got a Reuben. I got a snap dog and fry. Lunch was really great. People are really nice.

This place is so cute inside! I came in for a quick bite on a Wednesday afternoon. They were pretty empty except for 2 people at the bar. I found the end spot at the bar and decided on a chili cheese hot dog and French fries. I noticed they have "tuff skin" hot dogs and from my understanding it's the hot dogs with an extra thick skin that pops when you bite into it. I'm not a fan of those so I ordered the regular hot dog. I like how all drinks are self serve so free refills and no wait. The hot dog was yummy and the fries were hot, well seasoned and crispy! They're priced reasonably and fast. I'll definitely make this a usual! read more

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Check L.A. Dog today with my mom and sister. My sister ordered a hamburger without a bun and really enjoy it. You could tell the burger was fresh. I had the chili dog with fries and I must admit it was one of the best I've ever had. The bun was so soft and the chili was amazing. The fry sauce was also addictive...what is in it?!?! We also got a sample of the chicken salad and cole slaw which we would happily order on another visit. My mom had the sweet potato fries with her chili dog and they were also Great. Waitress was very friendly! Restaurant was very clean and the decor gave you plenty to look at. read more

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Great restaurant. Spotless clean, very creative decor. Awesome food and perfect service. Some creative and delicious menu items

This place is outstanding! Great food and even better service! Try the foot long you can't go wrong!!!

The atmosphere in here was so fun. We are new to the area but loved watching so many costumers come in knowing each other and chatting table to table. It felt so welcoming and lovely. Service was friendly and the food was great for a quick lunch. The fry sauce on the table was especially delicious! read more

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L A Dogs ALWAYS provides an outstanding service and a warm welcome. The food is delicious and served up fresh...YOU ALL ought to come out and join us. The restaurant's wall to wall "beachy decor" is very awesome and makes grwat conversation read more

Small little place in the shopping center. They have great food at a good price and amazing service. We will be back

They would rather stare at you coming in and joke around than take your order. We sat at a table for about five minutes in their empty establishment and was never acknowledged instead the geriatric woman rather played on her phone and laugh with her buddy instead of servicing us. Never had this problem at Perfectly Frank's or Uncle Al's so thank you for showing us who you guys truly are. Their menu stated take out order at register. Dine in sit down and we will come to you or flag us down, lol we were right in front of the server as she laughed it up with her person. So please don't come with that mess. We support our community and we definitely can take a hint when our money isn't wanted or we needed. 10/10 don't recommend if you're BIPOC. Experience is a zero all the way around. read more

Sooooo good. So much more i want to try on the menu. Very warm and welcoming environment. A lot homemade items on the menu. I has the spicy sausage with kraut and mustard and it was superb. The chilli for the chilli dog is made in house as well, and you can tell. read more

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Great hot dogs, barbecue and the best homemade cole slaw ever!! The restaurant is clean, service is efficient and you get your own fountain drinks and refills! Servers are trained well....not teens who are on their phones the whole time and not taking care of customers!! Been coming here a while; best hot dogs in all of Great Bridge! Tried other hot dog places in the immediate area...nothing even close to this place. You have to leave Chesapeake to beat the food at LA Dog!! read more

The food was delicious. Enjoyed every bite. The service was great and the atmosphere was very friendly.

One of my most favorite meals are hot dogs and fries and this place sure hits the spot. If that doesn't strike your fancy, there's plenty more to choose from delicious juicy hamburgers, chicken salad, or how about a good old fashioned fried bologna sandwich. As much as I love the food what I love even more is the cleanliness. The super friendly staff sure know how to please their customers! Do yourself a favor, head on over and give LA Dog a try, you'll be glad you did! read more

LA Dog is a fun and uniquely decorated burger joint that I used to drive 25 minutes for. It kills me to leave this review because I found this restaurant when pregnant, and it completely satisfied my craving for a good burger. The owner was quite friendly and helpful as I looked through the menu and we chatted for a bit. Later on, I returned with my husband, who fell in love with the bologna sandwich. Fast forward to today, I took my dad there because he loves a good burger. I thought it would be the perfect spot after my first two visits there. The younger girl came out and took our order and was very friendly. I will say my 4 year old is quite the gabber and kept talking to her as she tried to take our order, but she was so patient and sweet with her. About 15 minutes later another woman (not the owner) came out and delivered our burgers. Mine was missing bacon so I let her know and she looked annoyed and said, "It wasn't on your ticket." I said, "Okay, well can I have bacon?" She went and got me bacon and then my dad told her his burger was missing lettuce, tomato, and mayo. She became even more frustrated and explained, "That wasn't on your ticket either!" My dad just looked down because he was so shocked by her. I let her know that I heard my dad order and he did request the other items, in an effort to defend him and then she said, "Well that's considered 'all the way!'" It was like he was being fussed at for not receiving his burger how he ordered it. Her attitude was so cold and annoyed, and she treated us as if we wrote our ticket and messed up our order on our own. I honestly couldn't believe how we were treated over a simple miscommunication and could not wait to leave. We were so uncomfortable. So basically, the food is good and usually, the service is friendly, but the way we were treated today was extreme and unacceptable. read more

Great restaurant with finger licking good food. Team work really well together and promote a family friendly atmosphere. Highly recommended on your next outing. read more

Best hot dog place in Hampton Roads! We have eaten here many times, the tough skin hotdogs are my favorite. The restaurant is clean and the prices are good. The milkshakes and crinkle cut fries are our guilty pleasure. This is a hidden gem right in the heart of Great Bridge. The owner is always friendly and treats us like family. Enjoy the eclectic decor that brings the nostalgic 50's dinner meets the tropical islands. Love, love, love this place! read more

Excellent food and awesome service. My favorite spot for a quick tasty meal and it's located in a great spot!

Food was good. The chili was not overbearingly spicy and was just right. Had the all beef hot dogs and fries with sweet tea. Delicious and OK priced. read more

Lori Ann of LA Dog has a wonderful local restaurant with great food. Dogs, burgers, and daily specials (M-F). Take time to read all the little plaques around for a laugh and smile. Our favorite lunchtime place. read more

The owner gaslights me for complaining about using Fabulosa, a chemical cleaner, while customers were eating. Well, let's take a look at what's the main component of Fabulosa: What are the ingredients in the Fabuloso cleaner? Consulting the MSDS (colgatecommercial.com) we see that Fabuloso cleaner consists of: Water (more than 90%) Sodium dodecylbenzenesulfonate (0.1-1.0%) Sodium sulfate (~0.1%) The active ingredient of Fabuloso is sodium dodecylbenzenesulfonate: From Haz-Map|Home|Hazardous Agents Sodium alkylbenzene sulfonate Agent Name: Sodium alkylbenzene sulfonate CAS Number: 68411-30-3 Major Category: Other Uses Synonyms: Benzenesulfonic acid, C10-13-alkyl derivs, sodium salts; LAS, sodium salt; LAS-Na; Linear alkylbenzenesulfonate, sodium salt; Straight-chain alkyl benzene sulfonate; Benzenesulfonic acid, linear alkyl-, sodium salt; Category: Emulsifiers/Surfactants Description: Solid; Typically available as 50% concentrate; [ICSC] Pale yellow liquid or solid; [CAMEO] Aqueous solution: Clear colorless liquid; Sources/Uses: Used as surfactant in industrial and household detergents and cleaners; [HSBD] Used in the chemicals, polymers, photographic, and textile processing industries; Also used in photochemicals and construction materials; [IUCLID] Comments A skin and respiratory tract irritant; Corrosive to eyes; [ICSC] A skin irritant; Corrosive to eyes; [eChemPortal: ERMA] Linear alkylbenzene sulfonate (LAS): compounds with a sulfonated aromatic ring and a linear alkyl chain usually containing 10 to 14 carbon atoms; Commercial product is mixture of more than twenty of these homologues and isomers; Causes moderate skin and eye irritation (increases with concentration); Moderately toxic by inhalation; Effects in high-dose animal studies include increase in relative liver weight and effect on kidney tubular epithelium; [eChemPortal: SIDSUNEP] If you don't wanna read the above, here's the Cliff Notes: A skin and respiratory tract irritant Corrosive to eyes Causes moderate skin and eye irritation (increases with concentration) Moderately toxic by inhalation Effects in high-dose animal studies include increase in relative liver weight and effect on kidney tubular epithelium (if you don't speak medical, it causes the liver to grow and negatively impacts the kidneys) Moderately toxic by inhalation Moderately toxic by inhalation Moderately toxic by inhalation Moderately toxic by inhalation Moderately toxic by inhalation Moderately toxic by inhalation Moderately toxic by inhalation We've already endured one pandemic of respiratory viruses that potentially have affected people's lungs. Did you ask any of your customers who were eating if they had a respiratory condition that might be worsened by inhaling MODERATELY TOXIC chemicals? I don't recall that anyone in your establishment asked if there were any conditions that would prevent the use of MODERATELY TOXIC chemicals while we ate. You blowing off my complaint that I had to breathe this MODERATELY TOXIC chemical as I was eating is beyond reprehensible. Then you blame ME for complaining about the toxic fumes. So it's OK to make me sicker because I might have a respiratory condition that is perhaps triggered by inhaling this MODERATELY TOXIC chemical you used while customers were eating? Even more concerning, are you still using this MODERATELY TOXIC chemical while customers are eating? Is that really a good idea? Isn't that why restaurants CLOSE so that they can thoroughly CLEAN the place with MODERATELY TOXIC chemicals so that customers don't have to breathe them into their lungs? In your establishment, it seems the customer isn't always right, but no worries, we don't care if you get sick from breathing our Fabulosa - everybody just LOVES the smell! Perhaps this should be a public health department issue... or Perhaps you should have just apologized for a poor meal and an even poorer (and more hazardous) experience. Another 1 star that could have been converted to a better rating had you just admitted that your use of toxic chemicals during business hours was inappropriate. Still never returning because of the attitude conveyed. read more

On a whim while shopping in the area, stopped in, and what a nice surprise! Friendly owner and staff and delicious food, especially an amazing milkshake. SO happy to support a locally owned business! VERY clean restaurant and fun atmosphere. Definitely our new go-to place for fries, slaw and a shake for me--dog, burger and sweet tea for hubby. Taking the family there next week and no doubt they will have a great time and meal as well! read more

the food is so good here! Great beachy atmosphere and very nice staff. My favorite is the chicken salad and tough skin hot dogs!

Best hot dogs ever! Fried Bologna sandwich is wonderful and the fresh hamburgers!!! The atmosphere is fun and clean

I received this response from the owner. I noticed the quality of my food order wasn't mentioned at all: I hate to here that your experience was not what you expected. We strive to have happy customers and would certainly hope that if something was wrong that you would give us a chance to fix whatever is not up to par. It's kinda hard to fix something if you're not told that something is wrong. You work for the city which means you probably received a pay check the entire time during this pandemic, however, I was closed for several months wondering if I was going to be able to reopen or would I LOSE my business! So i chose to work my A$$ off during that time cleaning from top to bottom to make sure that if I did make it that I would be ready to re-open. The trash can was completely empty and the bag was put in incorrectly which I corrected. I would have to do a lot of business to have overflowing trash cans that early in the day. So you say that 14 people is 50% of the capacity of my restaurant? I have 52 seats so you do the math. So you had enough time to take pictures, do a headcount, and write bad review which directly affects my business but not enough time to allow me to fix whatever that was wrong which clearly makes me realize that I'm sooooo glad to be dealing with the public again!!! read more

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Hot dogs and chili are very good. Service is great. Very friendly. Good food. Sauces on table were very good.

This quant little restaurant is nestled in the very busy Great Bridge Shopping Center. As the name indicates they have "dogs" foot long and short. It's a great menu of burgers, sandwiches, soups and much more. Prices are competitive with similar restaurants, owner & staff are friendly and the restaurant is very clean. Along with fast service. Stop in for a quick meal read more

I have tried to like LA dog, but the dogs are smaller than the buns by a an inch or more. The chili they use is just okay, it's nothing to get excited about and the fries are a very small serving. I think what may be the biggest thing the staff act like you being there is an annoying. There isn't a greeting or an ask how is your meal is or even thank you for coming in. They will just walk by and slap the bill on your table. There are other places to go in Great Bridge for hot dogs that appreciate your business. read more

Great atmosphere and even better food. I had the hot dog with the works, onion rigs, and root beer

Great food which is reasonably priced. I've eaten here twice. The fried bologna sandwich was really really good and their fries are so crispy and good. My husband got a hot sausage and agreed that it was pretty tasty. Good place for a bite of lunch. It's nothing fancy, but they clearly take pride in what they offer. Will definitely be going back :-) read more