, or with ketchup, mayo (hello Belgium!), chili, cheese, gravy, or as the heart-stopping poutine - or chips, in plain, BBQ, sour cream, salt & vinegar, or any flavour can add the finishing touch to any casual or al fresco meal....

!) Excellent fries and onion rings and even poutine, if you want it.

the food. Starter: Chorizo poutine - excellent and I see what the fuss is about! Not a huge fan of chorizo so I didn’t fini off and was asked if I didn’t like it. They use the best chorizo there is out there...

the bottle And when I lived across the street from the gyro place, Greek Fry Poutine with Meat (dirty, but oh, so tasty...)

food (oysters, fish, beef) and dislike pork or meat heavy dishes (ribs, BBQ) with tonnes of sauces, fat or salt (but I do like gourmet burgers like Shake Shack in NYC, clam bellies from Cape Cod and poutine from Montreal). I...

by the time the drink order was in and then somebody wanted to know why there was no poutine on the menu (or something equally unlikely). We all looked at eachother and decided this was not going to work and went our separate...

, using the more expensive beef briskets, is wisely putting waste scraps into soups, poutine, and gravy. I think some scraps of pork and beef probably go into Buster’s excellent chili!

I just had a really excellent burger at Alibi on Washington. Very flavorful meat, juicy and cooked perfectly medium rare. I could have happily eaten another one, but Mr Boo was giving me The Look. Good poutine too, but I’ve...

wonderful grilled Portuguese fish. We spend the afternoon at the Jean Talon market, where you pick up many jars of local specialties to bring home. A quick poutine at la Banquise and we’re done, and you leave with an extra...

middles, and thick, soft British “chips” equally well in different meals. There are even times when fries that would be bad on their own make an essential contribution to a tasty rustic dish (e.g. poutine,...

The normal term used outside of Cincinnati is Cincinnati chili. It’s sort of Ohio’s answer to poutine. Calvin Trillin wrote an entertaining piece about it years ago, it’s one of his “Tummy Trilogy”...

Well there is Poutine in Quebec, french fries with cheese curds and gravy. Yummy stuff.

– French Quebec – Pig Feet’s stew 2. Le Riopelle de I’Sle – Quebec – Triple cream cheese 3. Dulse – Ireland or Canada – Seaweed that can be roasted, sauted, made into chips 4. Poutine – Quebec French fries topped with fresh...

chow mein. Having a cottage about 50 miles south of Montreal helped too. Authentic Quebec patates frites put every other french fry in North America to shame – and let’s not get started on poutine! Montreal smoked...

cheese curds (we wanted to make poutine at home), but the clerk apologized, telling us they usually sell out before noon.