If you're not eating enough, and you look a little BONY
And your head keeps playing Billy Idol's MONY MONY
Don't go to some other hot dog shop and get a PHONEY
Get the best dog in Houston at MIDWEST CONEY
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Some of the most amazing hot dogs and wings that you'll ever try. Certainly my fave in Texas that I've had. It's probably my favourite hot dog truck in the whole country, and sells some of the best hot dogs outside Chicago that you'll ever eat.
The owner is energetic and passionate, and I love the location where the actual truck is, at Chimney Rock Food Truck Park, as well as this sit down location way out in Westchase.
Sadly, I don't really come here anymore, because the last couple of times we were treated very badly by employees, not including the owner, although on a separate occasion, I did hear him have an altercation with some rude-ish customers over an online review they'd written, and that kind of rubbed me the wrong way a little bit. It was a little confrontational.
But the problem with us is that we are usually in a hurry when we come here, and I know it takes ages for the food sometimes and I'm okay with that, and we don't stop in unless there's no one in line. So one time we came in and we were just basically ignored for ages, girl serving was on her phone, and then had to wait a very long time for phone orders to be taken (which came in after we were standing there) and while people that ordered ahead of us got food that was more complicated than ours, and then she finally took our order about 10 minutes later.
That trip was nothing compared to our final visit. The most recent time we went, we came up to order and nobody else was in line, the same girl ignored us again. Then one of the people that were sitting down in a group stood up and came and looked at us, laughed, and proceeded to order in front of us. The girl that was working laughed along with it, saw all this happen, immediately took their order while looking at us to see if we were going to do anything about it, as if they were messing with us.
I don't think I described these interactions very well - they were weird - but there were a lot of things going on here that strongly suggested something between "you'll be badly treated here" and "you're not welcome here."
Based on these last two trips I would say that we are customers that they don't want to serve. I don't know if that's the case for the establishment in general, or just the person working those 2 days, but I do think that there was some nastiness towards us going on, blatant, obvious, repeated rather than an isolated incident.
There's a chance I'll still come back here in future, but we were weekly regulars for a couple of months, so it's a shame for both us and the business, as we haven't been back since.
Having said all of that - this is some of the best food in Houston. The best hot dogs, the best wings. I highly recommend you come here and give them a try. But if you experience the same service issues we did, don't be shocked.
So if you're living in Houston under Witness PROTECTION
And hoping that the right wing doesn't rig the ELECTION
And you can't get rid of your all-night ERECTION
Come and try the wings at Midwest Coney CONNECTION
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