The Royal Room

“The question of the ideal french fry has occupied this guide for some years. At The Royal Room, one arrives closer to an answer. The crinkle fry, single-fried in peanut, presents crispness that is architecturally significant and a potato interior that is earnest and specific. The grease is calibrated with clinical precision. Proximity to an answer is, in this case, sufficient. The address is committed to memory.”

“The crinkle fry at The Royal Room represents a kitchen with convictions. The exterior is architecturally significant. The interior is earnest and specific. The peanut does not call attention to itself. The grease is calibrated with clinical precision. Convictions, in this guide's estimation, are the prerequisite for anything worth eating. Return visits are not a matter of choice but of inevitability.”

“The crinkle fry at The Royal Room has the quality of inevitability. One arrives, one orders, one encounters the crispness (architecturally significant), the potato (earnest and specific), the grease (calibrated with clinical precision). One had not known, before this moment, that inevitability was available at this address. One knows now. This guide recommends the fries and nothing else. This is sufficient.”

“The single-fry technique employed at The Royal Room produces a crinkle fry of architecturally significant exterior and earnest and specific interior. The peanut is evident and appropriate. The grease is calibrated with clinical precision. The portion is forthcoming. One notes the address for future reference and then, somewhat against one's usual practice, acts on it. One finds, upon reflection, that the fries were the correct decision.”