Hot Dogs And Burgers With 4505 Meats And KronnerBurger | San Francisco

By Tasting Table Staff/Jan. 15, 2013 2:51 pm EST

January is no time for resolutions. Why set ascetic eating goals when there are new burgers and hot dogs to eat?

Like the Cole Dog ($8) at the new 4505 Meats shop in the Mission. To celebrate the opening of the shop, Ryan Farr and company have concocted a series of dogs that one-up his legendary 'Zilla-style dog.

The Cole Dog, named after kitchen manager Cole Mayfield, is the signature bacon-studded hot dog smothered in thick chorizo queso (yes, made with Velveeta). It's then piled with Fritos and pickled onions. This may sound gross; it is actually life-affirmingly good. 4505 Meats Butcher Shop, 1909 Mission St. (at 15th St.); 415-525-4239 or 4505meats.com

Chris Kronner's KronnerBurger has finally morphed into a Sunday-through-Thursday pop-up, hosted in a midnight-dim side bar connected to Bruno's. His master burger ($11), perfected during his Bar Tartine days, is a fat patty of 21-day-aged chuck and trim from Magruder Ranch, so tender it threatens to collapse with every bite.

If the house-made dill pickles, grilled onions and cheddar mayonnaise on top seem too puritanical, Kronner will add a slab of quick-melting bone marrow ($4). [2014 UPDATE: Kronnerburger has closed.]