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Mike5966
Feb 5, 2011 02:02 PM
I cannot stop thinking about the "xtreme french fried potatoes" I had at Towne the other night. I don't know if they were on the previous menu, but these things are ridiculously delicious. If you're visiting for a few drinks, as we were, it behooves you to get an order of these things. They are actually ~1-inch-sized cubes of potatoes (don't know what kind of potato), so they're not french fries in the traditional sense, but they were super crispy on the outside and fluffy/steamy/tender on the inside to a degree I had not yet experienced from a potato of any kind before, ever. We only ordered them because we wanted something to munch on with our pre-dinner drinks and it was the cheapest item on the bar menu, but boy were we in for a surprise. They disappeared so fast we had a second order. They come with a garlic mayonaise and regular ketchup. I alternated between the two. Just really, really good. $6.
My goodness, they were so good. Did I mention they were good? They were SO GOOD!
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ecwashere7
Dec 14, 2010 10:38 AM
Sel de la Terre. So good.
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rlh
Dec 13, 2010 06:31 PM
Rosemary, skin-on matchstick fries to order at Clover Food Truck at Dewey Square or MIT Kendall Square or recently Holyoke Center Harvard Square
Drink for thick, double-fried version
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I would refer you to this thread, with nearly the exact same title as yours, from 6 months ago: http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/710742
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Berheenia
Dec 13, 2010 11:27 AM
Tasty Burger in Fenway has great fries. The waitress was raving about their cheese sauce on fries- insisted it was nothing like the orange nacho plastic sauce. I'm good with ketchup myself.
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Tasty Burger
1301 Boylston St, Boston, MA 02116›4 Replies-
re: Berheenia
maillard
Dec 13, 2010 12:33 PM
That's interesting. I really disliked the fries at Tasty Burger. They had a weird fake taste to me.
I like fries from Flat Patties, U-Burger, and Russell House Tavern.
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Flat Patties
81 Mount Auburn St, Cambridge, MA 02138Russell House Tavern
14 JFK Street, Cambridge, MA 02138Tasty Burger
1301 Boylston St, Boston, MA 02116
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I really like the fries at Gaslight, for the twice-fried style. They also have great fries at Red Stripe, in Providence, if you're ever in that area.
Flat Patties fries are great, and you can just grab those.
I'm not a fan of their burgers, but I do like Five Guys fries, for fresh-cut, potato oil, not very crispy style fries.
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Flat Patties
81 Mount Auburn St, Cambridge, MA 02138Red Stripe
465 Angell St, Providence, RI 02906›3 Replies-
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itaunas
Dec 16, 2010 04:49 AM
I had the opportunity to have fries at Terra Nostra in Fall River one evening (french fries on their self titled steak, not the portuguese fries which come with the portuguese steak) and then the next day early at Five Guys in Dartmouth. Although the Five Guys were fried better, Terra Nostra's had much more potato flavor. I have had a similar experience with gastropub fries: perfectly double-fried, but lacking in taste.
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Terra Nostra Restaurant
262 Rodman St, Fall River, MA 02721
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viperlush
Dec 13, 2010 09:23 AM
In Cambridge:
River Gods and Lord Hobo for thin crispy fries. River Gods serves them with a roasted garlic aoli.
Four Burgers also has good thin (with skin) crispy fries. I like that you can order half sweet potato and half regular fires.
Trina's Starlite Lounge for thicker, creamier fries.
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River Gods
125 River St, Cambridge, MA 02139Four Burgers
704 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139Trina's Starlite Lounge
3 Beacon St, Somerville, MA 02143Lord Hobo
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MC Slim JB
Dec 13, 2010 09:00 AM
I'm a twice-fried Belgian-style frites kind of fry-gobbler. I like Brasserie Jo, Sel de la Terre, and Pops, among others.
The fries with chicken salt at KO Catering & Pies are good, unusual, and worth a look. My Aussie pal is ecstatic that they do fried potato wedges served with sour cream and Thai chili sauce. (I like those, but didn't swoon over them: it's a nostalgia thing, I think.)
As an unrelated aside, I'll also speak up for Portuguese-style fried potatoes, as done at places like Casa Portugal and the Sunset Cafe in East Cambridge (not to be confused with Allston's Sunset Grill & Tap).
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Sel de la Terre
774 Boylston St., Boston, MA 02199Brasserie Jo
120 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02116›3 Replies-
re: MC Slim JB
itaunas
Dec 13, 2010 10:20 AM
MC Slim JB Sunset Cafe is gone to reopen as an Oliveira's Brazilian (the East Boston Branch, not the Everett one). Not certain where else to get a head-on Camarao (shrimp) a Africana and I liked their unusual pudim molotov (JJ's does a more conventional sliced version), but they lost their focus many years ago. Glad to see the Portuguese fries get a plug as I would take tasty potato-tasting fries over twice-fried thin fries when the latter have texture but not enough flavor. You have to combine technique and flavor. BTW Portugalia does their own matchstick potatoes, which make a big difference in Bacalhau a Braz (not to all tastes because of the egg).
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MC Slim JB
Dec 13, 2010 11:20 AM
Thanks for the update, itaunas! Surprised about Sunset: that place has been around forever, aways seemed to do steady business. Retiring owners, perhaps?
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itaunas
Dec 16, 2010 04:24 AM
MC Slim JB I remember when it was called Sol Posto (I think) and its been the same owners (Castanheira). Heck they have had one waiter for 15 years who learned to speak English there on the job. They also owned a restaurant in New Bedford, but as far as I know that closed a long while ago. Business has been very slow for a long time -- they never managed to fill the restaurant weeknights (or even Fridays), but even the bar has been empty. A big reason the restaurant filled on weekends (esp Sundays) was for many years it was the go-to place for Brazilian and Cape Verdean parties (weddings, rehearsal dinners, baptisims), but now there are other options. They had some manager troubles probably around 5 years ago and since then have tried a number of ideas to bring more folks (buffets, pagode samba, etc). The only thing which has kept it open so long is they own the building and still, with things being so slow, you have to wonder how they could maintain their huge menu (I did get some over-marinated pork once 2-3 years back).
They were affected by Portuguese families moving to the suburbs (and much new Portuguese/Cape Verdean immigration going to other places like Brockton, Everett), increase in membership in nearby social clubs (I think I can count 7+ portuguese clubs within 2 miles). And I don't think either their location or service quality enabled them to bring in new customers as the neighborhood was gentrified. Its pretty amazing how much foot traffic there is in Inman these days, but almost nothing on that side of Roosevelt Towers.
I would still go for their version of acorda a alentejana (garlic soup thickened with bread), the camarao a africana (head on shrimp served with a real brown sauce, wine tomato sauce, maybe some reduced stock -- closer to a french sauce africaine than the tomatoes and pepper served by other restaurants), their steak was probably the best portugese steak around at the time, and their carne a alentejana was good when the meat wasn't overmarinated. The also wouldn't serve the carne alentejana when they didn't have cubed potatoes and wouldn't do the african shrimp when head-on shrimp weren't available. Definitely some misses on the menu and many service missteps. I always preferred Casa Portugal's fries so your other rec still stands for this thread.
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