Hot Diggity Baja Jake Dog

Quick wood painting for a Hot Diggity Kickstarter supporter. 

Also was their "dog of the month" a while back and has been featured on the HD2 cart. Nice one with jicama, salsa verde, tortilla strips and queso fresco. 

South Street

Custom neighborhood drawing of South Street for Keith over at Hot Diggity. Pretty current representation of South Street, I'd really love to do more from different eras...  to be honest I probably didn't step foot on south street for 5 years before Hot Diggity and Brauhaus were there.. but it's a fascinating part of the city with so many layers of artsy hippy / punk / touristy / ghetto / hot dog / drunk bros at fat tuesdays  history that more of these drawings definitely need to happen.

Deli Dog

Just finished this the other night for my show at Hot Diggity. Homage to the little known Philadelphia Deli Dog - a.k.a. Kosher Tommy. According to my mother this was common in the 1950's at Philadelphia Jewish delis as a kosher alternative to the popular texas tommy (hot dog wrapped in bacon, usually with cheese).

A Kosher Tommy usually consists of an all-beef dog wrapped with beef bologna or salami, variations including pastrami or some with cheese (I guess for the non-kosher??).

A while back I scoured Philadelphia area delis looking for these things and man some of them were sort of awful. Knockwurst and thick layers of greasy, dried out grilled salami under a mountain of congealing provolone cheese on a stale hoagie roll?!?!

 My favorite was this fairly simple Sizzle from Zeke's, a semi hidden diner-deli around 5th and Spruce, and the inspiration for the painting. 

Anyway you can check it out this month at Hot Diggity (630 South Street) along with a bunch of my work that's hanging in the shop. No word on whether or not they are going to run it as a special but this month's Detroit Coney dog is really really good.

Art Show At Hot Diggity!

Stop by Hot Diggity on South Street this Friday for lots and lots of hot dog art including some brand new work and even a couple of burger paintings.

Also for the first time prints from the Hot Diggity menu will be available for sale. The show will be up until the 29th, opening reception is this Friday the 3rd from 6-9pm. The restaurant will be open for business so come have a beer, eat a hot dog and check out some art. Also exciting, Hot Diggity (and the menu paintings) finally made it onto Hollyeats.com... my life is now pretty much complete.

Hot Diggity
630 South Street
thehotdiggity.com

Hot Diggity Art in Society Of Illustrators 54

Whoa! Two of my illustrations for the Hot Diggity's menu have been accepted into the Society Of Illustrators Annual 54. Totally shocked. Many Thanks to Hot Diggity for hiring me, Tim Gough for reminding me to send stuff in 2 days before the deadline and SI for accepting me into the show (and book).

The Advertising portion of the show will be up from February 23 to March 17, 2012, reception is March 2nd.

Society Of Illustrators
128 East 63rd Street
(between Park and Lexington Avenues)
New York, NY 10065

Philly Surf & Turf

Artwork for Hot Diggity's new Surf & Turf Hot Dog. Hot Diggity is an awesome hot dog restaurant on 630 South Street in Philadelphia. Full color T-shirts (and maybe prints?) will be available soon at the restaurant and online. Check out some process shots below. Read more about the hot dog itself on Drawingforfood.

Hot Diggity Paintings

Hot Diggity just opened last week at 630 South Street in Philadelphia with ten of my giant hot dog paintings as their menu. This job was a blast to do and pretty much exactly what I had in mind when I started doing these things.








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Check it out - the hot dogs are delicious and I'm pretty sure there will T-shirts and prints available at the restaurant in the near future. To read more about the food, check out my post tomorrow on Serious Eats.