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Restaurant: Frjtz (San Francisco)
Food description: Thick cut Belgian-style french fries with white truffle oil or fresh garlic topping and dipping sauce
Food rating: 6 out of 10
Times ordered: 3

Sorry guys, I just don't get all the hype about the fries at Frjtz. Maybe since it's one of the few (if only) Belgian frites places in the city, ignorance is bliss. I'd much prefer the ones I've had in NYC while living out there. So I've been to Frjtz several times just to make sure I wasn't crazy, and the experience has always been the same ole dense, starchy, chewy, and grease-drenched fries. They're just not that crispy at all (kinda like when you try to make french fries at home yourself). So instead of fixing their fries, this time they gave you a way to cover up the fries by adding toppings to them, such as fresh garlic or white truffle oil. I fell for it and ordered one of each. It didn't end up changing the fact that if the foundation is flawed, the building ain't gonna hold very long. The truffle oil was really tasty, but when added to the overwhelmingly oily fries, every bite I thought "hmm, can I get a little potato with my grease?" It also didn't help that I was reading an article on the anatomy of a heart attack (no joke!). And in terms of truffle fries in general, the one's I had at Harry's Bar were waaay better. The fries with the garlic topping had basically 4 cloves of raw garlic stuck on top of the fries, which is fine if you live and breathe garlic, but I don't, and it wasn't cute. I ordered the kalamata olive ketchup and peppercorn ranch dipping sauce, neither of which I really cared for, so ending up eating them plain. When I was finished, the fries left me feeling like a sluggish bear just emerging from hibernation. Though Frjtz is a cute little spot, I've given their fries enough chances to improve, so I'm switching them from the list of "Things I Eat" to the list of "Things I've Eaten".