Yeeros Shop (Marrickville)

The Yeeros Shop (re)reviewed -

The Yeeros Shop on Illawarra road, Marrickville has held an air of esteem and grandeur amongst the hot chip community. Having been here before and leaving whelmed (neither overwhelmed or underwhelmed), I was hopeful they’d just suffered an off day my past visit. The staff, I do remember. Old, rustic, sweaty charm. Their chips epitomize their character. Rough on the outside, soft and fluffy inside. I now understand the buzz about these chips.

I highly recommend this place as one of the top late-night-dirty-kebab shops to visit deep into the night and spoil yourself by grabbing a serve of these hearty chips. Get the chicken salt, have them to go just so you get them wrapped in paper and enjoy the cuddle these chips give you. A slightly dirty cuddle. Cheap as chips at $3.50 for a ‘Small’.

Negatives would be too much chicken salt! It was getting abovewhelming at points.

 Chip counter:

4.25/5

Yeeros Shop
431 Illawarra Rd
Marrickville NSW 2204

Leura Garage(2)

Good things you find in a garage:

1. Your car’s not stolen

2. A bar fridge

3. ‘You guys have a ping pong table in here!?’

4. Shoe-string potatoes from Leura Garage.

I’ve reviewed Leura Garage before but to my great delight I returned for their lovely fries and found they’d updated their flavouring! Crazy times.

Previously Rosemary and lemon salt, now Paprika. And no let down there, likely a let up. These skinny gems had all the crunch, taste and finger licking goodness of their older brothers and to me, even more character. Still expensive at $9 but so very good. 2, 3, 4, 8 at a time in your mouth and your a happy chappy, until they’re all gone and you’re a sad chappy.  The paprika gives a great zing and the aioli is still knockout. To put it simply, I want a car load of these in my garage 

 

 Chip counter:

4.25/5

I have upped these half a point from my previous review and give these a 4.25/5 as the updated chip menu made me giddy.


Leura Garage
84 Railway Parade
Leura NSW 2780

Burger Fuel | Spud Chips | $4 (50c aoili) | 4/5 I seriously rate these Spud Chips. I love the flavor of the salt, not usually a sides man but dig the aoili. For a burger joint I’m impressed with their chips. Mine were a bit inconsistent crunch wise but I found them decently moorish. Do your tongue a flavour favour and give these a try.

Burger Fuel | Spud Chips | $4 (50c aoili) | 4/5

I seriously rate these Spud Chips. I love the flavor of the salt, not usually a sides man but dig the aoili. For a burger joint I’m impressed with their chips. Mine were a bit inconsistent crunch wise but I found them decently moorish. Do your tongue a flavour favour and give these a try.

Apology to the Everyday People

It has been brought to my attention that The Hot Chips Blog may have lost its way.  In its search for the best hot chips I have no doubt succumbed to pay whatever the price for a  small handful of glamourous fries.  What about the everyday people!? What about those who shouldn’t and don’t want to pay 1/pc ($1 per chip)! Today I publicly say sorry -

Today I reflect on my past mistreatment.

I reflect in particular on the mistreatment of those who use their spare change to purchase their favourite hot chips – the Everyday People.

The time has now come for The Hot Chips Blog to turn a new page in Australia’s history by righting the wrongs of the past and so moving forward with confidence to the future.

I apologise for the over-priced, indulgent splurges at 3 hatted restaurants in the search for the most wonderful fries imaginable.  I apologise for paying $10 for a small plate of gourmet hand cut spuds.  For the pain, suffering and hurt of the Everyday People, their descendants and for their families, I say sorry.

For the future I take heart; resolving that this new page in the history of our great cause can now be written - to find the best hot chips in the world, and eating them.

I today take this first step by acknowledging the local fish and chip shops, the humble charcoal chickens, the cafe down the road that embraces all Australians.

A future where gourmet isn’t the only way, where a chip is never a hit to the hip.

A future where we embrace the possibility of the best tasting, best crunching, best ever hot chips simply come, from the humble chip shop down. 

Charcoal chicken on the Strand (Croydon) | $2.5 reg | 4.25/5 Cha-Ching! Power to the everyday chicken shop with straight cut, crunchy, CHEAP chips. What you want from the local chip shop down the road. Tasty, tasty.

Charcoal chicken on the Strand (Croydon) | $2.5 reg | 4.25/5

Cha-Ching! Power to the everyday chicken shop with straight cut, crunchy, CHEAP chips. What you want from the local chip shop down the road. Tasty, tasty.

Fish & Co. Annandale | 2.5/5 | $8.50 Hand cut chips with tartare sauce and chili jam. Authentic with skin on. Taste humbly like potatoes but lack a bit of flavour and crunch. Minus points for value for money.

Fish & Co. Annandale | 2.5/5 | $8.50 Hand cut chips with tartare sauce and chili jam. Authentic with skin on. Taste humbly like potatoes but lack a bit of flavour and crunch. Minus points for value for money.

Lord of the Fries (Melb)

Melbourne.  Great city, great culture, great coffee…great fries?  My first interstate hot chips review took me to the obvious stomping ground for one to chomp their teeth.  Lord of the Fries. This chain of restaurants has a big name to live up to and in my eyes they are Lord of the Lies! If you’re gonna claim to be a Lord then you better back it up with some royal fries.  Unfortunately these, although having an interesting batter/coating, mine were lacking crunch, flavour and character and I quite quickly became Bored of the Fries! Enough puns, enough said.

3/5

Lord of the Fries

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