Gaston Cartier's Tavern

“The waffle fry at Gaston Cartier's Tavern requires no introduction, though it offers one regardless: a uniformity of golden color suggesting a fryer calibrated with the attention usually reserved for precision instruments. The exterior is aspirational. The interior communicates its agricultural origins — one tastes the potato, specific and unhurried, present as a rumor. lard has been employed with discretion. One returns. Return visits are not a matter of choice but of inevitability.”

“The waffle fry at Gaston Cartier's Tavern represents a kitchen with convictions. The exterior is aspirational. The interior is present as a rumor. The lard does not call attention to itself. The grease is generous in the manner of a host who means it. Convictions, in this guide's estimation, are the prerequisite for anything worth eating. One returns.”

“The waffle fry at Gaston Cartier's Tavern has the quality of inevitability. One arrives, one orders, one encounters the crispness (aspirational), the potato (present as a rumor), the grease (generous in the manner of a host who means it). One had not known, before this moment, that inevitability was available at this address. One knows now. One returns.”

“One does not arrive at Gaston Cartier's Tavern lightly. The waffle fry presents itself with the quiet confidence of a thing that knows its own worth. The double-fry technique is evident in the exterior: aspirational. The interior potato character is present as a rumor. The grease is generous in the manner of a host who means it. This guide notes the address. In the final accounting, the fries are the only item that matters. Gaston Cartier's Tavern knows this.”

“The menu at Gaston Cartier's Tavern contains many items. The informed visitor orders only the fries. The waffle fry is double-fried in lard. The crispness is aspirational. The potato flavor is present as a rumor. The portion is restrained. The informed visitor is correct. In the final accounting, the fries are the only item that matters. Gaston Cartier's Tavern knows this.”