A chili dog smothered in red and green chile, wrapped in two sheets of parchment paper in a red plastic basket, beside french fries and a cup of nacho cheese mixed with red chile.
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Dog House Drive In

1216 Central Ave NW · Albuquerque, New Mexico
On Route 66. The board says DOGHOUSE; the dachshund says everything else.
Where1216 Central Ave NW
Albuquerque, NM
Phone(505) 243-1019HoursMon–Sat 10:30–9
Closed Sunday
1/2 chili dog$3.50

What we can tell you

Each line says how we know it.

It is a machine

The line moves. The founder watched the cook split hot dogs by the dozen about as fast as you can say a dozen.

Attested by the founder, 4 September 2026, standing there watching it. His advice, in his words: the Dog House moves quickly, so don't waste time taking it in.

The chili

The founder's claim: the best damn green and red chile in the city.

Attested by the founder as his own opinion, and published as an opinion. There is no score on this page and no ranking behind that sentence.

The Christmas dog

Red and green together. It takes two sheets of parchment paper to hold it.

Attested by the founder, who ate one and called it ridiculous with affection. Photographed below.

The nacho cheese and the ketchup

The chili-cheese fries come with processed nacho cheese and red chile sauce mixed together. There is ketchup. The founder did not use it.

His reasoning, attested 4 September 2026: what is the point of ketchup when you have that to dunk fries in. He called the ketchup “such a Pittsburgh thing.”

A correction the founder made himself

He first said he was forced into the fries. He was not. He ordered a half chili dog Christmas style, the fries were discussed as a maybe, and they ended up in the basket anyway.

Corrected by the founder within the hour, on the record, and kept here because the correction is the more accurate account and both versions stand on the tree.

What the board does not say

There is no full-size chili dog price on it. The board lists a 1/2 chili dog at $3.50, or $3.80 with cheese, and a footlong at $7.00.

The founder said he came for a four dollar chili dog. The closest thing on the board is the half with cheese at $3.80. We publish the board, and we publish the discrepancy rather than quietly reconciling it.

The line and the basket

Photographed on site, 4 September 2026. No face is legible in any frame.

Two cooks working a stainless steel line under a hood, both with their backs to the camera, order tickets and mustard packets stacked in the foreground.
The machine the founder watched. Both cooks are working with their backs turned; no face is visible, and that is why this frame is here.
French fries in a red plastic basket beside a paper cup of nacho cheese swirled with red chile, an unopened ketchup packet resting on the tray.
The unopened ketchup, which is the whole point of the photograph.
A chili dog under red and green chile wrapped in two sheets of parchment, in a red basket with fries and a cup of chile-cheese.
Christmas style, in its two sheets of parchment.

Ate here? Tell 'em how it was.

A photo and a line. It goes on the record as yours - not as the business's, and not as a change to this page.

Recorded, unsealed. Nothing on this page changes until the founder seals it - and what you send never speaks as the business.