Capitol Lunch in New Britain has been voted the best hot dogs in the state many times. Most recently they won an NCAA type tournament bracket sponsored by Channel 3 for the best Connecticut hot dog, defeating Blackie's of Cheshire in the finals.
I stop here often to get a hot dog with their special meat sauce. They have the hot dogs already on the grille ready to go. You can be in and out of this place in 1-2 minutes.
Working the ambulance yesterday, my partner Jerry and I stopped on the way back from New Britain Hospital to Hartford. We had done a call in Newington, and like many EMS calls, we get to suggest the hospital if the patient doesn't already have one in mind. Earlier in the day we had talked about getting hot dogs for lunch, so we suggested New Britain General, which is now called the Hospital of Central Connecticut. We took the patient to New Britain and then got our dogs.
Capitol Lunch uses the local Martin Rosol hot dogs, and the dogs with the sauce go for $3.99. They have a sign on the wall from olden days where hot dogs were just 45 cents, 50 cents with condiments.
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