Chicago's Best Fries: Frite Street

We asked you guys where to find the best regional bites, and Ashley Gleason and Swing of Life on Twitter suggested the Guinness Gravy Poutine at Frites Street in Avondale. Thanks, Canada! Frites Street. Love the name. We're making fries, which is one of my absolute favorites. We feature all fries. It's our main dish instead of our side dish. And who doesn't love fries and fries with amazing toppings? Here we use innovative ingredients. We do ethnic varieties, like we have our Korean special, and today we're featuring our Guinness Gravy Poutine. Poutine is a traditional Canadian dish. Correct. What is it about it that makes it so good? It's gravy. Really awesome gravy. Cheese. Cheese is just perfectly melted. It's French fries. Fries are nice and crispy. It's pretty decadent. The peas add a nice touch. How can you go wrong? Everything about poutine is a good thing. To start any good fry, we've got to start with... The potato. The Burbank Russet. Perfect for French fries because of the sugar and starch content. That's a lot of potatoes. Before we start on the gravy, I need a little more background on this Canadian staple. Explain poutine to me a little bit. It's hugely famous in Canada as an after-bar dinner food to sop up all the beer and the partying, the evening. We do a Guinness Gravy Poutine. So we're doing like an Irish version of poutine. I guess. I guess we could definitely serve it on St. Patty's Day. A little touch of wine in there. My favorite spice in the entire world. Looks like a lot of different spices. That is Montreal steak seasoning. So we got a little Irish and we got a little Canadian going in. Makes it legit. Next is dehydrated beef juice. They can just get a beef gravy mix. They can't find their dehydrated beef juice. You can't find it on the shelves. We just let it cook down and that's our Guinness gravy. We drop the fries and finish our gravy off with peas and cheddar curds. Creed Street, you dig? I've had it the real deal, poutine in Toronto, Montreal. This, I hate to say, is better. It is the place for fries. This is definitely one of Chicago's best. You guys are BYOB. We are. BYOS today, bring my own selfie. Cheers. Successful day in the kitchen. We had to fry up some extras for some bonus bites. So these are the Korean. Korean, yes, and topped with an egg. I mean, ridiculous. We even have some dessert fries over here. But let's get to the main dish right now. The poutine. Our poutine. Never been the biggest poutine person, I'm going to be honest. I can't lie to my people. But this is really, really good. Gravy's not too heavy and the fries are still crispy. I don't know what you other people are doing out there, but y'alls ain't kicking it like this one is. Why is Creed Street Chicago's best? We do all hand-cut fries and all of our own toppings, sauces. We make our own bacon. Everything's from scratch. They're creatively gourmet-topped fries. When it comes to regional bites, this is where you want to come.