Woonsocket's Moonlight in the Lime-Light

How many restaurants have their own marching band? Woonsocket's Moonlight House of Wieners does! And they took to the neighborhood stage parading smartly in their red aprons, black pants, white dress shirts, red baseball caps, and crisp bow ties. Local kids danced, waved and paraded dressed as wieners. Mom carried the banner. We're already planning for next year! This favorite restaurant in the heart of downtown, on Rathbun and Elbow Streets, not far from Bouley Field and Bocce Courts, says childhood joy all over it attracting both first timers and old timers, it's an all ages destination. Go in and say hi to Nagla. She is the star in the house of Moonlight. We love you Woonsocket! It doesn't get any better than this.

from a Yelper:

Being Halloween and all, the wife and I always journey out to a cemetery with a ghost story attached; this year it was Mercy Brown down in Exeter, RI. Since we're traveling down from Somerville, MA we'll need to eat and while checking out graveyard info on http://Quahog.org my wife finds ALL these funky places to eat. Talk about yer Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives it seems like the smallest state has the biggest food selection and specialties like Stuffies, Cabinets, Dynamites and Wieners pop out like fireworks on the 4th of July. Of all the places, Moonlight looks the best so we venture down on a Sunday afternoon hopping on 495 off the pike...

Entering Woonsocket & RI is strange since the border of the states seems to be someones backyard as we cross out of Bellingham (I think) and start looking for Rathbun Street on our right. The town has a fantastic vibe of good food and good times (perhaps too many "good times") on, shall we say, a low budget? We only notice the 2nd half of Moonlight, the "Pool Hall and Spirits" side and discover the tiny door leading into the diner on the left.

We step inside and I KNOW it was worth the drive; carrot orange wieners line the grill on the left and we jump all over the 3 wieners/fries/drink for $6.95 special and get a small Dynamite as well. The lady is SUPER nice and tells me to sit and relax while I wait. The dining area looks more like a Keno hall but it IS clean (as was the restroom) and I laugh to myself at a bickering couple with their wise-ass kid to the table next to me.

The atmosphere is the real-deal and I was reminded of Lawton's in Lawrence and KNEW I had a find. The food came and we parked around the corner to sit and chow. How was it? AMAZING! The wieners were a perfect balance of dog, toppings and bun. The Dynamite was saucy, messy and fresh-tasting as ALL hell. I forgot to get a coffee milk but, heh, gives me an excuse to return!