Stroops is a small spot, with 8 stools across the front windows and one 4-top booth. It’s a casual operation – you order from the menu above the counter and then wait for your name to be called.
The menu is deceptively simple – a selection of seasonal hotdog choices, fries or salad, 4 desserts, and homemade sodas.
The food is elevated without pretense. All of the dogs are made in house, sourced from a sustainable local family farm, and inventively topped. These guys have been field testing this for years at the weekly Dutch & Co. Back Door Dogs.
I didn’t make it in until the 4th day open, and there was a lunch rush line to the door. The place seems to just flow, though. Michelle from Dutch & Co. was working behind the counter, Chef Phil on the line. Some of the best restaurant talent in the city, making your lunch.
Stroops
Tues – Sat / 11AM – 6PM
2709 East Marshall Street
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I LOVE that they use Martin’s rolls! I just toured their visitors center in Chambersburg, PA, and the entire company is outstanding. Plus, their rolls are just delicious.
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RT @chpn: Stroops is casual and awesome https://t.co/acwVrnUYVk #rvadine
I agree they limit their customers by only offering meat and no other options.
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I, for one, applaud their focus (on meat dogs). Not every restaurant needs to accommodate everyone. Better restaurants are the result. No dilution of vision. I’m all for it. And this doesn’t need to be seen as an aggressive or dismissive act by Heroic Dogs (or any establishment). It’s an editorial one. Or curatorial.
I am however all for a greater diversity of restaurants. By all means this city would benefit from more plant-based restaurant options: Indian, Israeli, Chinese—not only modern hippy. It’s something I’ve been craving since we’ve moved to RVA. Progressive, plant-based restaurants are not an *out-there* idea, and Richmond is behind-the-times in creating more of these types of establishments.
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Awesome photos, John!
I agree, they have the right to serve whatever food they want. It’s a hot dog restaurant, vegans are not their target customers.
Maybe they will add non meat options as they become more established.
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This place is great and a welcomed addition to the neighborhood.
#hotdogsforlife
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Cant’ wait! I will try to make it by 6!
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Yeah they have been serving their hot dogs on the sidewalk for quite a while now – the fact that they serve meat(!) surely hasn’t hurt their business. Can’t wait to try them out!
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Sure, they have a right — for now — to serve whatever they want, but don’t dress it up in some outlandish language like “curatorial,” which sounds all craft-oriented and progressive and thoughtful, when actually it is just a pose to keep doing harmful, obscene things like being the *unnecessary* cause of the death and suffering of animals.
Those are my four girls in the header photo! John can you send me the pic?
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Those dogs are delicious!
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aren’t fries and waffles and ice cream vegetarian? salad is vegan. Can meat eaters get meat at vegetarian places? what? no…imagine that. Let’s let each restaurant be what they want to be people!!
One of the owners, Phillip Perrow is the son of one of my best friends. Watched him grow up to become one fine chef. Hope this new venture will be as successful as Dutch and Company.
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Such a great addition to the neighborhood. Excellent pics.
mmmm…delicious animal meat! can’t wait to try this place!
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I love hot dogs like no one’s business, but am I the only one who thinks that $14 for a dog, fries and a soft drink might be a bit over the top?
@21, do these look like your average dogs?
@21… I think $6 for the dog is reasonable but the fries and soda, agreed are too high. Those better be some awesome fries for $5. 🙂
FormerLibbyHillResident: I agree with you, especially considering the high percentage of poverty in church hill as demonstrated by the number of children on free and reduced lunch in the local schools. But that is what happens with gentrification. They will survive or not, but it’s a business plan they are choosing to take a gamble with not you. I suggest if $3 is too expensive for a hot dog that you go over to the hot hog cart at Vernon J. Harris medical center for a hot dog $1.50. Capitalism is wonderful that way.
@21 – Price seems comparable to five guys, if you ever go there. Guessing Stroops quality is a bit better and portions a bit smaller, but I haven’t paid them a visit yet.
What was the name of the dog that the Texas Wisconsin Border Café sold? A Chicago Dog? That thing was so slathered in cheese, chili, onions and toppings you had to eat it with a fork and knife.
I wish them great success.
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@Neigbor, et al
A friend and I were taking bets on how long it would take for someone to complain or comment negatively about the prices or styling of Stroop’s menu items. While we were amused to see the vegan/vegetarian complaints come up first, it still didn’t take long.
The reality is that this restaurant doesn’t necessarily cater to the neighborhood, poverty or no. Folks come from all over the city (and well past the city line for that matter) to eat at all the other “neighborhood” restaurants. Pay attention to license plates, tax stickers, and accents and it’s pretty obvious. While I think poverty is a problem in the neighborhood, these businesses certainly aren’t banking on neighborhood residents alone. But I would point out that any of these restaurants is certainly better than an empty corner, is probably better than an overpriced corner store, and most of them do provide employment opportunities in the neighborhood. I think attention doesn’t need to be directed at the customer base, but at who these restaurants hire and why.
I was fortunate enough to hit Stroop’s up the first day (off work, yay!). I agree it’s a bit on the pricey side, but I didn’t feel ripped off–yes, the fries are good. Everything was good–I nearly yelled WOO HOO when I saw the bags of Martin’s rolls since no burger or dog should ever touch any other roll. And I applaud that Stroop’s doesn’t give in to the veggie crowd.
Trish and Lee – hear hear!!
It is a sad day that we have, as a nation, not risen above being part of a brutal culture where vegetarians and others go out into the fields to cut the heads off of lettuce. The plants call out in agony as another vegetarian terrorist beheads a helpless plant. Stop the violence. Stop the vegetarians. Drone strikes should commence immediately.