This site claims that Australians have been eating poutine (the famous Canadian dish of french fries covered in cheese curds and gravy) “for decades.” O RLY? Where the heck do they get that? I’ve never seen it here. I’ve been googling for the past few minutes and I can’t find any Australian restaurants that list it. Sure, you can get chips and gravy here, but it’s not exactly the same. Do any of you know of a Sydney eatery with poutine on the menu?
That reminds me. When we got to “Canada” at Epcot, I looked all over for a booth selling poutine. Couldn’t find one! So we went into one of the gift shops and I asked the cashier, who was VERY Canadian. “Oh, no,” she said. “Me and the rest of the staff, we can’t find anybody in all of Orlando that serves it. There’s this restaurant out on the highway that will put gravy and cottage cheese on your fries though, if you ask, eh.” Damn.
Kris
May 25, 2007 — 8:43 am
Okay, so I found one place in Melbourne that appears to do them. Any others?
Bex
May 25, 2007 — 9:24 am
Ok – theres a place in Perth called Hungry Spot (the only place open for 24 hours for miles around) and they do chips/gravy/cheese (no curds?). They also do a chips/gravy/cheese/meetball pizza. Its as feral as it sounds. Only eat one when seriously hungover, because its just not good when you’re sober.
Bex
May 25, 2007 — 9:25 am
Might I add that i like cheese and gravy on potato gems??
TOAST
May 25, 2007 — 3:56 pm
I’ve seen places in shopping centre food courts that do it, and one that sort of “specialises” in it. I don’t remember the name, but they mostly did stuff like “gourmet” burgers and hotdogs. I could tell you two specific places in Brisbane to get it, I don’t specifically recall anywhere in Sydney that does it, but a very large Westfield food court would be a place to start looking.
It wasn’t called “Poutine”, but it was indeed “poutine”. And there were variants (you could have it with Chili[con-carne] and such). First time I saw it I had to try it, even though it was 3pm and I’d already had lunch. It was pretty good, the cheese was right, but the gravy was wrong (that really cheap nasty shet).