New York Fries

When you order poutine you expect cheese curds and not some soupy cheese like sauce. There should be a law that says you can’t call the garbage you serve poutine unless it has cheese curds.

My first meal and first poutine in TO/​Canada and I wasn’t satisfied. Perhaps I didn’t order the right thing but although the braised beef poutine was tasty, the beef could be softer and fries more crispy.

The amount of fries they gave was ridiculously low. i dont understand the bizplan, neveragain.

I am locovore normally, but I have a soft spot for a few highly specific chain junk-​food scenarios. New York Fries poutine with a rootbeer whilst sitting in a mall food court is high atop this *list. For my money, you haven’t lived in the western world until you’ve found a table for one at a mall in Canada and scarfed this poutine.
The poutine itself has squeaky curds, crispy skin-​covered fries and dark medium-​warm gravy. It’s pretty bad according to most, but I love it.
PEPPER’S PISSED at Matt M. One star? Let’s go to the mall and buy some jean jackets and eat some poutine.
*The other two are:
+Eating a McDonald’s McMuffin or Big Mac in a car to signify the beginning of a trip.
+Swiss Chalet delivery straight to my couch, and eating off of their tiny plastic utensils while watching sitcoms. Hashtag extra sauce.

Don’t waste your time (and money) in here, a friend recommended me for the poutine since I m new in TO I trusted her and went there for lunch, I have never tried poutine before so I couldn’t judge until it gets in my mouth but and there I was wondering what it s supposed to taste :(((I couldn’t feel anything even the cheese had no taste. Fries are good though.
For one drink, a small poutine and hot dog it came for 12 $ ! 4 $ for hot dog (sausage was cold) so I am still looking for a good poutine…

this was our second poutine ever, and after having poutine from harvey’s the day before, i was left slightly disappointed. if they had new york fries in california, i would eat it in a heartbeat, but compared to the ones from a chain, i prefer harvey’s poutine. with that said, both gravies used were vegetarian and i am sooooo sooo glad. if you can make it to another place for poutine, i would try them first. otherwise, i’d say go for it… it’s not the worst, but it’s also not the best… based on my experience of two servings of poutine. :P

Now, I’m a french fry lover. I’m a poutine lover. But I have yet to have a delightful experience at a NY Fries. The fries, to their credit, are not that bad. But for a place that specializes in fries (and poutine) they leave a bit wanting.
I mean, nothing gross about the place, the staff were fine, blahblah. Just my personal opinion that when you are making poutine (or fries for that matter) in a city like Toronto with all the amazing poutine joints you’d want to make sure that pout was making people lose their minds at the mere thought of it! Like go so crazy they become best friend’s with the staff just for the chance of a free poutine at closing… or even a spare succulent curd.
No, not at NY Fries, I will not hold my breath for the spare curd.

A solid place for a slightly greasy, hot, salty snack. When I go here, it’s not for poutine, but just for the solid (alright, somewhat flaccid) plain fries. They’re delicious, and you really can’t do better in a fast food place.

I haven’t tried any Fries here in New York City that taste as good as New York Fries in Toronto. Some come quite close yet still missing that key element & ingredient. I shall one day return just for your Fries !

i’m back for a short trip and i had a hankering for poutine. i saw the new york fries so i had to get it. First thing that popped out to me, they had these new options! Angus beef poutine, butter chicken poutine and something else. Anyway, $ 5.75 for these specialty choices. the butter chicken was pretty good. it had the flavour that i thought it would. Anyway, i’d say that the regular is still the best, but it’s probably worth trying the specialty choices just once.

Not every NYF is made the same… as I learned grabbing a quick poutine today. I didn’t have enough time in my lunch hour to get to Craft Burger and back or I would’ve satisfied my poutine crave there. I thought a quick substitute would be fine but the poutine was not good. My stomach will attack me later for the choice I made.
Also, staff were talking through my whole transaction. The cashier put my receipt on the counter in front of me and walked off. Erm, hello? You could’ve just handed it to me!

As a native New Yorker, I had no idea that we were known for our fries. New York Pretzels? Bagels? Pastrami? I could see all that. Yet in Canada the bagels are «Great Canadian» and the fries are «New York.» I’ll tell you what, though, you can’t buy poutine in New York. Well, maybe you can but you’d have to look hard for it.
Anyways, this location is in the Eaton Center food court. The staff is okay… could be faster and the storefront could look cleaner, but the whole food court in the Eaton Center looks kinda dingy so it doesn’t stand out.
The fries are pricy… since they are just fries. But they’re tasty. Not too thick, not too thin. Decently crispy. You can get them in poutine or covered in sour cream or chili. I just go regular and dunk them in ketchup. No malt vinegar for this American.

Living in NYC, I actually had no idea there was such an establishment called «New York Fries» until a location opened in Hong Kong and a friend there took some pictures of it, and I saw the pictures on her facebook. Those fries looked tasty in my friend’s pictures and so of course I immediately went to its website to find a location in NYC. Imagine my disappointment when I found that not only does it not have a location in NYC, it doesn’t have a location in the States, period. So this is the irony of a business called «New York Fries». It has locations in Canada, the UAE, Korea, Bahrain, and Hong Kong, but no location in the US.
Well finally this past weekend while I was visiting Toronto, I was able to sample these fries. I was recommended to try the poutine, as that is their «classic dish», so to speak, as far as a fast food place is concerned. It was pretty delicious, and maybe I had built up my expectations too high, but it wasn’t the mind-​blowing taste-​bud exploding experience I had wanted it to be. Deep fried and covered with gravy and cheese curds, you definitely don’t want to pretend you’re Morgan Spurlock and eat it everyday as a 30-​day challenge. However, I would love to go back to try the other kinds of fries they have on their menus.

You know when you think «oh that’s a good idea» and it really isn’t?
That was me eating New York Fries yesterday.
Oh get some poutine! It will be yummy! Yes it’s junk food, yes it’s fast food but it will be worth it!
It isn’t worth it.
I don’t know what I was expecting. I have had some top notch fries in the past and I guess I forgot that New York Fries was a food court kinda food.
The whole thing was just disappointing. The staff seemed nice enough but the fries themselves were not worth my $ 4.75… and that is saying something.
Blarg.
I think I’ll write up some good poutine spots soon. Keep an eye out for em.

For a place that focuses on only one product, I’d expect that product to be a little better. The fries were pretty mediocre. The different topping combinations were pretty good– can’t go wrong with the gravy on the poutine though the curds weren’t terribly fresh, and the Works with the cheese and bacon was pretty nice. Nonetheless, a good batch of fries shouldn’t need gravy or otherwise to make it delicious. Plus, the people that worked there didn’t seem very interested. There are plenty of better options in this food court.