"Chronis is as essentially East LA as lowriders and Cheech & Chong. This family-run fast food stand has been around since the '50s and is immediately recognizable by its tall sign promising hot dogs seven days a week. On paper, their flagship chili cheese dog is pretty unremarkable—a slice of american, raw onions, and some mustard slid under a steamed all-beef Hoffy's drowned in a reddish-brown, fine-grained chili sauce—but somehow it tastes way better than the sum of its parts. Maybe it's the way they put it together. Throw a few pickle slices or yellow chiles on top and savor the history." - garrett snyder, sylvio martins, brant cox, cathy park, andrew ryce