NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 13:17:00 PDT Organization: Excite@Home - The Leader in Broadband http://home.com/faster Xref: usenet.INS.cwru.edu rec.food.restaurants:54442 Norman wrote: > > My favorite Hot Dog is from Nathan's in Coney Island and > in IMHO they have the best french fries on earth. > I've found the quality of Nathan's fries and Hot dogs to vary significantly from very good to very poor. Highly inconsistent. Best fries I've had, without a doubt, is at the Ridgewood in Bluff City, TN. Truly fresh cut and always fresh served. Their BBQ beans are also the best anywhere, plus their BBQ is excellent. First heard of them about 20 years ago through a Jane and Michael Sterns book. Second best fries (and perhaps the best fish and chips) - The Rathskeller in Charlestown, RI. It's hard to name my best hot dog, but they must be served in a grilled New England style bun with pickle relish to be considered. For chains, Friendly's and Hojo's (there are a few left) have the best consistency for an excellent hot dog. An exception to the bun style might be Johnny's in western NJ (an independent) on Rt 46 along with their excellent birch beer.
Rhode Island
Best Fries
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Someone wrote:
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> I've found the quality of Nathan's fries and Hot dogs to vary
> significantly from very good to very poor. Highly inconsistent.
> Best fries I've had, without a doubt, is at the Ridgewood in Bluff City,
> TN. Truly fresh cut and always fresh served. Their BBQ beans are also
> the best anywhere, plus their BBQ is excellent. First heard of them
> about 20 years ago through a Jane and Michael Sterns book.
The best french fries I can think of are the ones served by "Curly's Fries" at 26th Street and the boardwalk in Wildwood, NJ. There is another Curly's Fries a few blocks further south on the boardwalk too. They use real Russet potatoes which they keep in boxes behind their french fry stand. As the fries are needed, the potatoes are washed then cut with a hand operated machine that sort of looks like a meat grinder. The cut fries are dumped into hot peanut oil for a few minutes, drained, salted, and served. The fries look very similar in appearance to Nathan's fries.
Curly's fries has Heinz ketchup on tap, litterly coming out of a faucet that looks like a soft drink dispensor. Also available in salt, garlic powder, mustard, and malt vinegar.
Yum! I can't wait to get some next weekend if the weather's nice enough for me to go down to Wildwood and my friends who own a condo there don't mind me bunking on their sofa for a night or two!