![]() ![]() “I noticed people taking pictures … and it spread like wildfire.” $5.50 With bacon, grilled onions, tomatoes, mayo, ketchup, cream sauce, avocado, cilantro, and mustard, this even more colorful version of Reynoso’s original Dave’s Style Dog became Instagram-worthy from the start. ![]() Santa Barbara Style: The release of this dog caused “things to really take off,” Reynoso recalled. The Santa Barbara dog with onions, tomato, mustard, ketchup, bacon, hispanic sour cream avocado, cilantro, with a grilled jalapeno Dave’s Dogs.The chili dog with grilled onions, sharp cheddar, and beef chili at Dave’s Dogs.The Chicago Dog with neon green relish, sport peppers, celery salt, poppy seeds and a side of a pickle at Dave’s Dogs.One day, the entrepreneur hopes to return to the parking lot off of Milpas to open an additional location. Reynoso also added a veggie dog option and sides like wings, fries, corn, and tater tots. The larger location allowed the menu to expand to more than 20 richly unique dogs with various toppings, including barbeque sauce, chili, mozzarella cheese, and spicy mayo. So Reynoso moved Dave’s Dogs to a brick-and-mortar location on Turnpike Road across from San Marcos High, and his regulars followed him. In no time, the parking lot salesman was moving upward of 50 hot dogs a night, and by 2017, the cart simply couldn’t handle the volume of lunch-hour orders. Soon enough, though, word spread about Dave’s decadent dog creations, topped with bacon, grilled onions, tomatoes, mayo, mustard, ketchup, and cream sauce, and people started coming from all over to taste Dave’s twists on a barbeque classic. “The first night I sold less than 10 dogs,” he recalls. With just an umbrella, a small sign, and one hot dog on the menu, he was nervous. “I wanted to change the game on the hot dog concept,” Reynoso explained. It was less than four years ago that the Santa Barbaran noticed a lack of hot dog options in the community and set out to sell specialty dogs out of a cart on Milpas Street. Reynoso’s become accustomed to running the business side of Dave’s Dogs as a one-man operation. “I can make someone happy by feeding them something so traditional,” says Reynoso, beaming during a break in his 14-hour day. Hot dog visionary David Reynoso claims regulars like these keep him inspired to create new menu items nearly each week. ![]() Nestled in the corner of a shopping center on Turnpike Road in Goleta, Dave’s Dogs Grill wafts out the scent of mouthwatering hot dogs as San Marcos High School students file in after a long day of classes. ![]()
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