New York Friez
When I was in Canada I got introduced to Poutine and ever since its been a favorite dish of mine every time I visit Montreal. Around a year ago I found out New York Fries had opened up in Kuwait so I went to check it out because I knew NYF from Canada and they used to have Poutine. NYF had opened up next to Souk Salmiya and my first experience was a mess. Firstly it turned out they were called New York Friez not Fries meaning they were just copying the name and look of the original franchise. Secondly although they did have poutine on the menu they couldn’t make it right. Poutine is french fries topped with cheese curds and brown gravy but I got served french fries with chili and cheese. According to them it was because they had run out of gravy. I was like fine but you should have told instead of trying to pass me chili cheese fries as poutine.
Anyway that was the last time I went to them until today. I was meeting up with Nibaq near Johnny Rockets Salmiya and I noticed New York Friez had opened up right behind them. I was like let me give them another chance. I go in and ask the waitress if they have poutine, she was like yes and she showed it to me on the menu. I tell her great can I have one. Then I was like wait, how do you make your poutine, whats in it? She was like chili and cheese and fries. I was like thats not poutine, poutine is cheese, gravy and fries. She went to the back asked the cook and came back and told me no poutine is chili, cheese and fries. I was like no thanks and walked out.
Things like this piss me off. If you look at the picture I took from their menu you will notice they can’t even spell poutine right. In UAE they have the official New York Fries but sadly they don’t have poutine on the menu. But at least there they don’t try passing chili cheese fries as poutine to their customers.
Here is info on poutine at Wikipedia. [Link]
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14 Comments, add your own...
1. Khalil | November 9th, 2006 at 3:32 pm
wao this is really crazy S and Z it will be a great idea to open here but then if there is like 3 or 5 stores that exactly the same i will doubt the prices there is cheaper than original NYF, and no one will know the difference, that’s serious killing
2. Pink Panther | November 9th, 2006 at 4:35 pm
As a Canadian from Quebec, I can assure you you will never find good poutine like you do in Montreal.
3. Pink Panther | November 9th, 2006 at 4:36 pm
FYI, a plate of poutine is equal to eating a bar of butter.
4. khalil | November 9th, 2006 at 5:52 pm
rien de bon que de poutine de rapido du plateau Mont-Royal comme on le dit “ca va faire une maudite poutine”
5. vanou | November 9th, 2006 at 6:56 pm
La Banquise man, that’s the place to go.
Ou si t’es de la rive-sud, c’est Cafe Campus en face de Durocher!
Sorry for the french guys, but you can’t talk about Poutine in any other language… =)
6. Musaed | November 9th, 2006 at 7:01 pm
well another negative point is they use regular cooking oil ! while the original NYF uses a healthy cooking oil that is not hadroginated!
7. Mark | November 9th, 2006 at 7:05 pm
Mon endroit préféré pour le poutine est A&W
8. Dubai Sunshine | November 9th, 2006 at 7:52 pm
Mmm…nothing beats poutine after a late night of clubbing….Man I miss Montreal!
9. hali77 | November 10th, 2006 at 12:03 am
omg…how much do i love poutine..41 days and counting..maybe that’ll be my first meal when step off the plan..instead of fish n chips..ill get fish n poutine..ahhhh
10. Khalil | November 10th, 2006 at 3:04 am
shit i didnt know there were sow many foreign poutine lovers,
11. holla | November 10th, 2006 at 1:20 pm
fuck poutine, it’s like what french fries would be if it was actually invented in france.
12. Equalizer | November 11th, 2006 at 1:57 am
The secret to real poutine is 2 things that cant be replicated elsewhere, the gravy, which is technically possible, but the second is the cheese curd used that is produced in Quebec. So you wont be able to have it outside of Canada, unless you import these ingredients.
13. SOmeBody | November 12th, 2006 at 8:06 pm
I live in Montreal and poutine is the nastiest thing I’ve ever heard of and tasted so you’re not missing much.
14. Pink Panther | November 14th, 2006 at 7:36 pm
CAFE CAMPUS.. i went to champlain college, there was a cafe campus out front, the best poutine ever
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