There’s something magical about a place that doesn’t need to shout about its greatness.
Gus’s Hot Dog King in Newport News is that unassuming A-frame building with the red roof that’s been serving up some of Virginia’s most spectacular burgers while maintaining the kind of low profile that only true culinary legends can afford.
You know those places that time forgot? Not in a cobwebby, abandoned way, but in that perfect preservation of an era when food was honest and restaurants weren’t trying to be your Instagram backdrop?
That’s Gus’s in a nutshell – or should I say, in a burger bun…