Skiddle loves Sausages at Salt Dog Slims

Image: Salt Dog Slims

It's national sausage week, don’t you know. A whole seven days dedicated to those meaty cylinders that epitomise the ultimate in carnivorous excess, celebrating them in their many shapes and sizes and culinary compositions. With that in view we’re throwing some love towards one of our favourite drinking emporiums where we get to gorge on these delicious meaty morsels, Liverpool’s infamous Salt Dog Slims.

Nestled right at the very top of Seel St in the city’s Ropewalks area, this bar (and kind of restaurant) has been open for just shy of eighteen months, rapidly becoming one of the most revered drinking establishments in the Scouse stronghold. Despite being relatively small, their ‘Brines and Steins’ concept has unashamedly raided everything that is great about German boozing by offering a selection of hot-dogs alongside huge litre sized tankards of Warsteiner. 

As the menu above showcases the varieties comes thick and fast, much like the dressings in which they are doused in. Personal favourites include the Atomic Dog, just about on the right side of blow your balls off, and the Aye Carumba, which adds a good slab of Mexican excess to the tried and tested sausage and bun formula. Be wary of the Suicide Dog however; this seemingly innocuous meal is literally dancing with death.

What makes the boozer all the more hotly nestled in our affections is the litany of other options; the owner’s prowess in cocktails has clearly seeped into the selection. And their infrequent but thoroughly enjoyable eating contests are an absolute marvel (main image), if thoroughly disgusting. As grotesque spectacles go this is as good as it gets. Who would have thought watching men shove sausages in their gobs could be so much fun?

Salt Dogs Slims is open every day of the week from 5pm to 2am, and you can find it on 79-83 Seel St, Liverpool.

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