Robert Girard's Brasserie

“The wedge fry at Robert Girard's Brasserie does not apologize for existing. This is, as it turns out, the correct posture. The crispness is commendable and largely sustained. The potato interior is earnest and specific. The grease is conservative — the napkin remains largely decorative. One admires the lack of apology and returns to express this admiration. This guide recommends the fries and nothing else. This is sufficient.”

“In a city of approximately eight million opinions about french fries, Robert Girard's Brasserie has one of its own. The wedge fry is double-fried in peanut. The crispness is commendable and largely sustained. The potato flavor is earnest and specific. The grease is conservative — the napkin remains largely decorative. The portion is forthcoming. One visits once and thereafter considers the matter settled. Return visits are not a matter of choice but of inevitability.”

“The wedge fry at Robert Girard's Brasserie 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 commendable and largely sustained. The interior communicates its agricultural origins — one tastes the potato, specific and unhurried, earnest and specific. peanut has been employed with discretion. One returns. The fry alone merits the journey to Lower East Side.”