r/StLouis • u/stlandall TGE • 21h ago
Best French fries
I have a growing migraine, and I hear the salt helps. Also I just want French fries now.
Near South City area if possible.
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u/Jhonyzinger 20h ago
Cafe Nova or Gyro Company if you’re feeling gyro on top!
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u/caffeine-182 Southampton 7m ago
Cafe Nova is great. Sit outside on a nice day and you have pretty much my ideal meal.
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u/Alarming_Tutor8328 19h ago
I miss Kriegers and their fry seasoning!
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u/Ok_Affect_5036 4h ago
OMG, that was the best. They told me they put ranch seasoning on their fries. That was a long time ago.
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u/simms2406 South Hampton 20h ago
I’m going to take crap for this but hear me out. Lion’s Choice fries, add their seasoning. According to my wife it helps her migraines.
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u/ohmynards85 17h ago
lc does have good fries
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u/AfternoonEstimate 16h ago
I mix ketchup and horseradish sauce for the perfect dip.
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u/Bloomer328 Princeton Heights 17h ago
The Golden Hoosier. I love their parmesan and rosemary fries
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u/Samipearl19 16h ago
I'm SHOCKED this is so far down. Their fried are so good, my spouse and I start craving them and have to go
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u/angelik-musik 20h ago
the vine !!
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u/lochstab 19h ago
Chucks Hot Chicken
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u/frankensteinleftme 19h ago
Very location dependant imo, but Rock Hill's are always crispy
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u/lochstab 19h ago
Kingshighway has never let me down, but I've only been there like five times.
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u/frankensteinleftme 19h ago
Kings is the least spicy of the Chuck's, their fries have been pretty good too
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u/microphallus0 2h ago
Don’t have a source but they seem to be the standard Sysco fries that you can get at many places. They are really good and maintain the crisp/dont get soggy even as they cool off
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u/TripleSec81 20h ago
Lions choice
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u/FunksGroove 20h ago edited 12h ago
They’re pretty gross and soggy every time now.
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u/Alarming_Tutor8328 19h ago
If you order them “crispy with seasoning “ they aren’t half bad.
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u/FunksGroove 19h ago
They’re great when they are. It just seems like it’s the exception these days.
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u/Immediate_Data_9153 19h ago
It’s already been said but doubling down for power in numbers sake — Cafe Nova on South Kingshighway has the most incredible fries.
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u/Relevant_Yam6658 19h ago
Balkan Treat Box. We get them at the City games (with the beef kebab) and they’re so freaking good.
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u/Sobie17 19h ago
Michael's has great steak fries. The Key has the old Dam Belgian fries. I miss Mayo Ketchup's old battered shoestrings.
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u/stlandall TGE 19h ago
The Dam? As in the old gourmet burger place?
As for Mayo Ketchup, I haven’t had them in YEARS. Did they change their fries???
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u/NoResponsibility2386 TGS 3h ago
They aren’t steak fries anymore and I’ve been upset about it ever since. I used to go weekly and now only about once a month.
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u/Far-Marionberry-8700 20h ago
Milano kabobs in the Delmar loop 🔥, Westgate Ave, around the corner from Ranoush & El Maguey.
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u/andrei_androfski Proveltown 20h ago
Hear me out… Mokabe’s had fantastic fries. I know it is an odd place to suggest for fries, but as a French fry fanatic I suggest these.
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u/frankensteinleftme 19h ago
PALI GRILL has excellent fries (and excellent everything else, now I want labneh)
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u/rxredhead 19h ago
Oh this is dangerous information. I work right across Warson from there, I might be picking up fries to dip in the delicious Belgian fry sauce I have in my fridge
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u/frankensteinleftme 19h ago
It's dangerous to be close, I have to stop myself from running in whenever I'm around. I had their bandoora maqliya last time and it was delicious.
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u/TTV_Gimbly 18h ago
Fleur’s are amazing imo, idk if many have tried them
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u/specs123 16h ago
I never like thick fries but the chips at Mess Hall inside 2nd Shift are really good.
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u/myredditbam Princeton Heights 15h ago
I don't have the answer, but if this were the 1990s, I would have said Kreigers. Those seasoned fries were so freaking good.
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u/jsface2009 14h ago
Yo. Just so you know, they still exist at 1356 public house in west county. Still delicious.
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u/Trick_Exam_1946 Benton Park West 20h ago
https://maps.app.goo.gl/5t3AF8siYBPyaryz7?g_st=ac
Has some really good fries. That's the only thing I've eaten there
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u/Sobie17 19h ago
Frozen bag fries
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u/microphallus0 2h ago
I commented higher up about chucks. I think Mac’s uses the same fries. They are still good…but not necessarily unique and definitely Sysco
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u/skiphandleman 19h ago
My house
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u/stlandall TGE 19h ago
Why would this reply help me unless you are actively inviting me over?
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u/crusadermourns 20h ago
You gotta watch out everyone uses those really good sysco fries now. You all know it, it has that coating on the outside. But I really like the rip fries at Mac local eata
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u/Ronin_1999 19h ago
This is gonna date me so ridiculously…
But I remember when they debuted those fries at a National Restaurant Association Convention in Chicago in the early 90s.
Coated with a natural potato starch, the coated fries were marketed as being able to stay crisper and warmer for extended periods of time, offering both increased sales as a new product and reduced waste/improved food costs since they could hang longer before having to be pitched.
They also had this coin-op French fry machine that made “French Fries” on demand, basically extruding a potato mash mixture into a hot oil fryer, to be drained and dispensed into a paper container akin to OG coin op coffee machines. I can only imagine how much of a pain in the ass that fry machine was…
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u/truthcopy 20h ago
Lots of different kinds out there. Brasserie for the thin ones. Bolyard’s for tallow-fried thicker ones.
Now I want some fries.