Great french fries are probably the last thing that come to mind when thinking about Cafe Annie (something we do a great deal), but since one of the keys to a great restaurant is the details, it should come as absolutely no surprise that its fries are first-rate. They are, in fact, the fries of your dreams: thin and crisp, seasoned with coarse salt, and tasting deeply of potato. They’re so good, in fact, that at a recent dinner there, when we discovered that nobody’s entrée came with fries, we ordered some for the table — adding new meaning to the phrase “Do you want fries with that?”
This article appears in Sep 21-27, 2000.