Zog's Dogs Not Exactly Artisan, but They Do Have a Zippy Sense of Humor

M. Brody

A kielbasa receives a squirt of mustard.

Tucked behind the FiDi's One Post building (where Post, Market, and Montgomery meet) is Zog's Dogs, a new, bright yellow stand serving up an array of dogs and widely sourced sausages. Prices range from $3 for a corn dog to $6 for the Prop 8 Dog (two wieners snuggling in one bun). The quarter-pound sausages include hot links, spicy Italian Calabrese, bratwurst, lemon chicken, and low-fat turkey spiced with peppers and cilantro.

M. Brody

A Zog Dog with Texas chili.

​Bacon nestles alongside the Matrix Dog ($5) and wraps around the Mexico Dog, which comes dressed with grilled onions, jalapeños, and mayo. At $5.50, it's pricier than the version you'll find on Mission at 2 a.m. on a Saturday -- then again, it's street legal. Indeed, bacon can be added to any dog for a buck. The meat-averse might try a veggie tofu dog on a wheat bun ($4.25), and for the conflicted there's the Moral Conundrum: a tofu dog wrapped in bacon ($5.50).

We chose to add Texas chili ($1 -- a commercial product Zog's doctors up with its own seasonings) to our snappy all-beef Zog Dog ($3.75), sourced from the Home Sausage Co., aka Engelhart Gourmet Sausages. It didn't make us any less homesick for Pink's in L.A., but the wait at Zog's was about two minutes -- a hell of a lot shorter than the hour or more you can wait at Pink's. Freezer fries ($2.50) were cooked to order in soybean oil. We saved two bucks on our fresh-squeezed lemonade by downloading a coupon from the Zog's Web site.

M. Brody

Zog's is tucked behind the One Post bulding.

Word has it that owner Jesse Herzog had been wanting to open his own stand since he was a boy, citing a fateful day when a seagull cruising the San Francisco Zoo swiped the family's dogs right off a tray. We didn't see any low-flying seagulls as we perched on a convenient set of concrete blocks on Market, but we did dispatch our chili dog so fast they wouldn't have had a chance.

Zog's Dogs 1 Post (at Montgomery), 391-7071. Mon.-Fri. 10 a.m.-6:30 p.m., Sat. 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Closed Sun.