If possible, please send a photo along with your description - a nice smartphone photo is fine.You won’t be able to order Crack Fries at HopCat for much longer. Email your favorite dish and a short explanation about why you love it to and it may be featured in a future issue. Friday- Saturday 10 a.m.- midnight Sunday 300 Grove St., East Lansing (517) 816-4300, /eastlansingĭo you have a go-to dish at your favorite local restaurant? We want to know about it. Who knew?ġ1 a.m.-midnight Monday-Thursday 11 a.m.-2 a.m. So I guess when a lot of people like something, that thing is probably pretty good. (HopCat, which offers 100 taps of craft beer, also won for Best Craft Beer Selection). In local news, Crack Fries just nabbed the award for Best Fries in the City Pulse/Fox 47 News Top of the Town contest for the second year in a row. In a recent article on the Food Network’s website, the addictive fries were named among the 10 best fries in the U.S. It's not just my food-recommending acquaintances who are hooked on the Crack Fries.

Seasoned fries are gaining in popularity, but I haven’t tasted any as satisfying as Crack Fries. They are cooked until crunchy on the outside but soft on the inside, just as fries are meant to be.

They're salty, peppery and just a little sweet. Public Enemy famously warned us “Don’t Believe the Hype.” But in this case, you can ignore the advice of Flavor Flav and company, because these fries live up to the hype. It's the signature menu item of the Michigan-based gastropub chain, which is also known for its vast selection of beers.

By the seventeenth time, I needed to see what everyone was so addicted to.įor the three of you who haven't heard of Crack Fries yet, it's a generous plate of beer-battered French fries sprinkled with cracked black pepper seasoning. The first time someone told me I need to go to that new place, HopCat, and try the Crack Fries, I gave a noncommittal, 'Eh, yeah, maybe.' The second and third time, I considered going.

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