Frites uit Zuyd
One family, twice-fried frites, homemade mayo, gold tray, honest queue.
A proper frietkot, run by one family since 2015, welded onto the side of Café Par Hasard on the Ceintuurbaan. The premise is monastic: fresh potatoes cut daily, fried twice, salted, crowned with mayonnaise they whip themselves, served in a shiny gold tray that has become a small De Pijp status symbol. That is it, and that is why the queue forms, weekend afternoons especially, stretching past the cafe windows while the fryers work in shifts. The snacks are chosen with the same care, garnalenkroketten and Limburg frikandellen instead of freezer filler, and if the line gets absurd you can retreat into Par Hasard and order the same frites with a glass of wine. Cheap, precise, unchanged for a decade. The city needs more places this stubborn.
Frites with the huisgemaakte mayonaise; add a garnalenkroket if the day deserves it.
What to order
- Verse frites met huisgemaakte mayonaise€4.00
Fresh-cut, double-fried, mayo whipped in-house, gold tray
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