Hot dogs are so hot right now: NYC invaded by bizarre new wiener cocktails, franken-sculpture

Hot dogs have never been hotter.

Indeed, these tube-iquitous treats certainly seem to be in everything in New York City nowadays from ice cream to churros and even streets — a so-called “toxically masculine” 65-foot wiener installment was erected in Times Square last month.

As folks begin to relish the frankfurter phenomenon, newly-opened Williamsburg rooftop bar LilliStar is offering its own spin on Gotham’s quintessential tube steak — a boutique hot dog “cocktail. Yes, you read that right.

Naturally, the idea of mock-meat-tail might sound like a bridge too far to some, but Christine Wiseman, the Global Beverage Director for parent company Bar Lab Hospitality, bills the drink, called “Hot Doggin’ It,” as a “very good, well-balanced, delicious cocktail.”

“I think it’s the perception at first is like, ‘Oh, is this going to be crazy?” the drink dynamo told The Post. “And it doesn’t taste like a hot dog, but it’s more [like] breaking it down into an avant-garde hot dog.”

The $18 Franken-wine is a boozy deconstruction of the ballpark brat featuring Vida tequila, Lustau Vermouth, tomato water (ketchup), mustard seed and other ingredients. This glass is topped with a petite gummy hot dog and swaddled with aluminum foil to complete the effect (a far more refined presentation than the odious hot dog beer straw this author subjected himself to several years back).