Slog - Comments on Today The Stranger Suggests

Comment by COMTE

COMTE — Tue, 27 May 2008 11:14:37 -0800

So, rather than bemoan the loss of a delicious, cheap accompaniment to late-night drinking, instead we should "celebrate" overpriced, admittedly inferior-quality fare?

Do you guys get some sort of kickback from Moe's and PSFF for every mention online? Because, you know, you sure do mention them an awful lot.

Comment by Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 27 May 2008 11:18:46 -0800

Advertising? Editorial? What's the difference?

Comment by Abby

Abby — Tue, 27 May 2008 11:28:33 -0800

I like PSFF a lot, personally (yay octopus!) but it isn't open when the bars close. What's up with that? I tried to go there once after 1:30 on a Friday, but it was shut down. Isn't that the point of a late-night food place? Frites was open later on the weekends...

Comment by Hernandez

Hernandez — Tue, 27 May 2008 11:34:19 -0800

Stranger Suggests? Really? As if you haven't humped them enough already on the Slog? Do they compensate you for all of the free advertising? I'm just saying, at this point it's kind of bad karma if they don't.

Comment by Mr. Poe

Mr. Poe — Tue, 27 May 2008 12:25:33 -0800

Yes, COMTE. Instead of continually celebrating what we have now (which is good), let's continually moan what you miss (which is gone, and has been gone for quite some time now).

Your loss is our loss. Let us be like all on Capitol Hill. Let's sit and cry about everything changing, point fingers, la la la, that solves everything. And by everything, yes, I do mean nothing.

Comment by Bellevue Ave

Bellevue Ave — Tue, 27 May 2008 12:35:56 -0800

Poe is right. Most people wax nostalgic about a Capitol Hill that only existed in their minds and that will always be superior to the future. Theyre like the conservatives that think the 1950s were the best era of humanity.

Comment by NapoleonXIV

NapoleonXIV — Tue, 27 May 2008 12:39:02 -0800

Yeah, after a hard drinking night of scotch, wine, and beer, I want to stabilize my stomach with yummy, oily octopus tentacles.

Comment by The Artist Formerly Known As Sigourney Beaver

The Artist Formerly Known As Sigourney Beaver — Tue, 27 May 2008 12:40:32 -0800

Actually, I miss the place that used to be there before Neumo's [Playland?]. The hamburgers were greasy, but the fries were good and they had a neat collection of new and vintage pinball machines.

Comment by Jubilation T. Cornball

Jubilation T. Cornball — Tue, 27 May 2008 12:47:50 -0800

PIKE STREET FISH FRY!!! Come on, everyone, let's get their mentions up to 100 today so those Stranger kids can get some more free food!!! Woot!!!

PIKE STREET FISH FRY -- brought to you by Kecksavagebarnettfrizzelle Enterprises.

Comment by COMTE

COMTE — Tue, 27 May 2008 13:22:49 -0800

Yes, indeed, Mr. Poe. Let us sit upon the ground and tell sad stories of the death of Frites.

Change, just for the sake of change, isn't always a cause for celebration, you know.

I don't bemoan things changing when it actually IMPROVES on what it replaces, but in this case PSFF just doesn't cut the garlic aoli. It's overpriced, over-hyped, under-executed, and as @3 quite correctly points out, not even open at the most crucial time of the evening, bar-closing.

And FWIW there are several places in the locality with far superior fries: Honey Hole, Elysian, or hell, even Quinn's fries, beat PSFF any day of the week.

Comment by Bellevue Ave

Bellevue Ave — Tue, 27 May 2008 13:36:39 -0800

Comte, if it's any consolation, soon PSFF will be gone because far superior places have crumbled there before.

Comment by Mr. Poe

Mr. Poe — Tue, 27 May 2008 13:42:04 -0800

@11

But that's when PSFF will become awesome. Then we can add it to the list of "amazing places that were once there but are now gone and omg this new place sucks everything is better la la la zomg I have no money tfo do not want".

Comment by Brian

Brian — Tue, 27 May 2008 14:29:01 -0800

Jesus, I own a late night eatery in the area and wish I could get half the free advertising you guys throw at this place. Still, I don't understand this mourning over Frites - weren't their fries frozen, bagged from Sysco stuff? At least PSFF has hand-cut - that's superior any day.

Comment by Bellevue Ave

Bellevue Ave — Tue, 27 May 2008 14:37:07 -0800

Brain, if people knew that the food distributors to places like The Cheesecake Factory also serviced some of their favorite local places, they would judge the food on that rather than what their tastebuds have been telling them all along.

Comment by Mr. Poe

Mr. Poe — Tue, 27 May 2008 14:53:43 -0800

Brian, where is your biz located? A couple people would like to stop by and tell you how much better the place before it was.

Comment by NapoleonXIV

NapoleonXIV — Tue, 27 May 2008 15:02:22 -0800

Unless the previous place was La Puerta, that is.

That place blew chunks.

Comment by Brian

Brian — Tue, 27 May 2008 15:27:45 -0800

#16: uh, yeah - if i owned quinns i'd be too busy counting my money to post here.

Comment by COMTE

COMTE — Tue, 27 May 2008 21:57:58 -0800

So, c'mon Brian, give it up. If you're not willing to self-promote your own place, you can't expect anyone else to do it for you.

And you know what? Potatoes is potatoes. It doesn't matter whether they come flash-frozen in 50 lb. sacks from Sysco or F.S.A. or U.S. Foodservice or any other wholesale distributor you can name, or, really, whether you delicately hand-cut each and every single locally-grown-in-pure-organic-sasquatch-compost Russett with a fracking obsidian cleaver hand-made by the grandsire of Chief Lelooska himself - it's STILL a potato.

It's what you do with them AFTER the truck drops them off that makes ALL the difference.

Comment by NapoleonXIV

NapoleonXIV — Tue, 27 May 2008 23:34:47 -0800

Well, however he makes them, they're not like how they used to be.

Comment by i hate change!

i hate change! — Wed, 28 May 2008 08:29:54 -0800

Whatever was before the Annex theater was better than the Annex theater. Even if it was a dumpster with some legs hanging out of the side.

Comment by COMTE

COMTE — Wed, 28 May 2008 11:12:00 -0800

Ooh, that hurts sooooo bad @20.

Look at me, I'm bleeding from your wounding words.

/sarcasm