After hours, when the lights are low and the pints are pouring freely, chips with curry and cole slaw ($6) get better looking with every beer. As served, the tin is nearly eclipsed by cole slaw, which has very little sweetness that might clash with your brew. The heavily corrugated fries, shown in this partially excavated view, stay respectably firm for the duration.
Previously: Unlike bramboraky and their Eastern European kin, the potato pancake called a boxty actually resembles a pancake. It's fine-grained and flexible enough to be employed as an Irish wrap; below, a boxty plays a supporting role beneath eggs and beans ($6). Also shown: beer-battered sausage with salt-and-vinegar chips ($7) and a chip butty ($3) dressed with a side order of sweeter-than-spicy curry sauce ($2). Lots of things go great with Irish curry; on the night in question, if memory serves, that was true of the boxty, too.
The Chipper Truck
Encountered most recently at Viva La Comida!
As a habit, doing business only after midnight on Katonah Ave. at East 237th St., Woodlawn Heights, Bronx
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