The Absolute Chip

“The shoestring fry at The Absolute Chip has the quality of inevitability. One arrives, one orders, one encounters the crispness (aspirational), the potato (present as a rumor), the grease (calibrated with clinical precision). One had not known, before this moment, that inevitability was available at this address. One knows now. A return visit is, at this point, a formality. One will perform it nonetheless.”

“The shoestring fry at The Absolute Chip does not apologize for existing. This is, as it turns out, the correct posture. The crispness is aspirational. The potato interior is present as a rumor. The grease is calibrated with clinical precision. One admires the lack of apology and returns to express this admiration. A return visit is, at this point, a formality. One will perform it nonetheless.”

“Not every establishment in Tremont understands its own fry. The Absolute Chip understands its fry. The shoestring format, single-fried in peanut, produces a crispness that is aspirational and an interior that is present as a rumor. The grease is calibrated with clinical precision. Understanding is, in the context of the french fry, the beginning of everything. The neighborhood offers alternatives. One should not investigate them.”