Café Spud

“One does not arrive at Café Spud lightly. The steak fry presents itself with the quiet confidence of a thing that knows its own worth. The triple-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. The address is committed to memory.”

“At Café Spud, the steak fry is taken seriously in a way that does not announce itself. The triple-fry method produces an exterior that is aspirational. The interior is present as a rumor. The grease is generous in the manner of a host who means it. The seriousness, once recognized, is irreversible. Return visits are not a matter of choice but of inevitability.”

“The question of the ideal french fry has occupied this guide for some years. At Café Spud, one arrives closer to an answer. The steak fry, triple-fried in peanut, presents crispness that is aspirational and a potato interior that is present as a rumor. The grease is generous in the manner of a host who means it. Proximity to an answer is, in this case, sufficient. Best ordered without accompaniment. The fry requires no defense counsel.”