Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Food Fight House-Made Potato Chip Crunch Match
Posted by Nicki Wood on Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 5:45 AM
Cut thin and properly cooked, they're great plain, as served to a lunch group recently at Fleet Street, a reminder of how good potato chips can be. Maybe a bit of seasoning — the truffled potato chips at Cha Chah are just the thing with a cocktail. And they're also great jazzed up, as served to a dinner crowd at Yolos. Dolloped with with sour cream and sprinkled with bacon, green onions and blue cheese, these chips rose to the level of appetizer rather than snack.
Homemade potato chips are so innately good that it's hard to pinpoint the best in town. But let's try — where have you had some incredible homemade chips?
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"the deep browning gives an extra layer of flavor" - bitter, burnt potatoes =/= flavor.
I can say this, Germantown Cafe East has the worst ones. They're ruffled and always overdone. It's kind of gross.
Margot has great chips, so does Holland House.
I wouldn't go so far as to call them "incredible," but I've had surprisingly good house-made chips at the Frist Center cafe.
No. 308 has some pretty tasty chips, I do believe. But yeah, +1 to Margot.
Tavern's ruffled chips are pretty good.
Edley's uses homemade potato chips in their version bbq nachos. It's a pretty inspired move.
Neros has some pretty tasty chips with sea salt and blue cheese crumbles. Don't eat there often but have always had a good meal when I do. Plus you get hot water corn cakes!
Boxwood Bistro has some really good house made chips with a blue cheese topping.
I'll give Logan's a spot on the worst list. Was thnking Blackstone had chips as well, but could be mistaken.
showing my age and geographic wanderlust, but a hundred years ago - ok, 30 - Red Robin was a West Coast-only burger joint, and they had homemade potato chips that were dusted in Parmesan and absolutely to die for. I don't know what corporate gearhead made the decision to pretend such things never existed, but it's up there with yanking Big Boy from Shoney's for marking when a given company jumped the shark.
seems like everywhere you go these days they're making their own chips. Can't say they all should. So far nobdy's blown me away. I would give anthing to see a Charles Chips truck heading down my street !
Oooh, whoever mentioned 308's vegetable chips above-Great call! I love those sweets and beets chips :)
I'm just reminded by "kuntrageous"'s comment, on our first visit to Holland House, their veggie chips were AMAZING. Second trip they'd change them, and still good, but not as good as before. Not sure what they are now, as I haven't had them in a bit.
