Billy’s Gourmet Hot Dogs

Excellent delivery today during the quarantine!! The windy City sandwich was phenomenal. Part of what makes this sandwich great is the juice in it, and they shipped the sandwich separated, and I assemble and eat it, which makes for a perfect consistency, no soggy parts. Couldn't be happier!

Loved this place! The woman working was very polite and friendly. She gave me some wonderful suggestions on what to do around town because I'm from Minnesota! The food was really good as well. I would definitely recommend this place!

Stopped by after hearing about these breakfast and lunch menu specials. Note that these change daily, and are in limited supply. However, well worth it. Willow was very pleasant and helpful with taking my order, and has a lot of great suggestions. Her customer service is absolutely 5 star grade. I got her famous French Toast. Right away I was impressed by the presentation. She definitely has a good eye for this sort of thing. The aroma was magnificent and mouth watering. Upon the first bite, the toast itself was coated in granulated as well as powdered sugar, with what appeared to be a caramel like syrup. Before I realized, I had eaten the 3 servings I was given, and still wanted more! Absolutely delicious, and I would certainly recommend anyone reading this to come in and try it! Make sure Willow is the server you get, and your experience is going to be great!

This place is amazing. The food is very quality and the staff are friendly and helpful. The recommendation I got today one these green chili cheese fries was awesome! Their employee Willow has such a great personality that makes the experience just that much better!

Billy’s downtown restaurant is located at the triangular intersection of Broadway and Larimer, with a patio that offers a panoramic view of downtown life. It also offers the intersection of two pursuits: an affection for Chicago-inspired nostalgia, and the contemporary trend toward exotic meats and artistic accents in our comfort food.

Billy’s standard is the Chicago standard: an all-beef Vienna dog with the steamed bun, but they also offer housemade Italian and Polish sausages. And many other dogs and sausages, such as corn dogs, duck sausage, Cajun sausage, and chicken mango jalapeno sausage. There are vegan dogs, apparently well-regarded by the vegan community. There are also “not dogs,” a clever name for other alternative sandwiches: not just burgers, but grilled salmon and thin-sliced Italian roast beef.

Billy’s has nine (nine!) varieties of fries. The Garlic Pesto Blue Cheese fries seems the most interesting, but I haven’t had them yet. Billy’s also has ice cream and sorbet, all made in-house.

I ordered the Billy Dog, a traditional Chicago dog - Vienna beef, mustard, relish, onions, pickle spear, sport peppers, tomato slices, and celery salt, steamed bun with sesame seed. It was very good. I also had one of the specialties, the White Hot Dog. It’s basically a Coney Island, but the “White Dog” is a combination of uncured and unsmoked pork, veal, and beef. The chili was good, thick and meaty like I prefer, but it masked any unique flavor the meat may have had.

Billy’s is the pride and joy of Billy Feid, a Chicago native. He had what might be humorously seen as a mild middle-age crisis, and the result was that he opened a hot dog joint. Well, there are two or three of them now. It’s a great outcome for all hot dog lovers - the fancy artistic kind, and the old-time Chicago kind, too.