I’ve been meaning to go here for months… so when my parents came to visit a few weeks back, I saw it as the perfect opportunity to grab a cone of the best chips in town! (Apparently.)
The ‘rents had stopped in Bruges on the way to the Netherlands and had friet met mayo right in front of the Belfry tower – so the stakes were high. Frietwinkel had to deliver… and luckily for us they did! They’re number #1 on Trip Advisor of places to eat in Utrecht – for very good reason.
But they’re *just* chips I hear you cry! Yes, they are just chips. But they are bloody good chips!!
A nice ‘gimmick’ is that they cut them in front of you, so you can see just how fresh they are. I made a little video, voilà:
“De eerste BIOLOGISCHE FRIETWINKEL van Utrecht.”
The first organic chip shop in Utrecht. I don’t care about organic tbh – but maybe you do.
Cheap, tasty, instagrammable. I’m sold.
And do you want to know the best thing?? They have these clever cones with 2 compartments that keep the sauce separate from the chips!! (I really want to shout “yes lads!!” now.) Oh fuck it… YES LADS!!!
You know how annoying it is when you get a massive blob of mayo or ketchup or whatever at the top of the cone… then you get soggy chips at the top (with waaaay too much sauce) and then the rest of your chips (3/4) have no sauce… Bloody annoying.
But here, the sauce is separate! (I would like to take this moment to personally congratulate the awesome human being who invented these cones. I’m a little bit in love with you.)
And now for the downside… the service isn’t great. But remember you’re in Holland… customer service pretty much doesn’t exist here. So just deal with it.
At least whoever makes the signs has a sense of humour!! 🙂
Eet smakelijk!
Hayley x
THE LOWDOWN:
Klein portie – €2,50 | Groot portie – €3,25
Vinkenburgstraat 10, 3512AB Utrecht | frietwinkel.nl
This is not a sponsored post. I just really like chips.
Customer service doesn`t exist in the Netherlands? hahaha, you have never been to Bolivia…? Netherlands is customerserviceheaven in comparison…. And now you made crave friet!
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Wow! Chips (fries) cut fresh in front of you? NICE!
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Now I want some. xP
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Yeah, sorry… I can’t bring myself to call them fries. I’m so damn English! 😉
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I think it varies from person to person. When I was an exchange student in Ireland, one host mom asked me if I wanted chips and she gave me crisps, which was what I was expecting. (She’d clearly hosted Americans before!) Another one asked if I wanted chips and I got fries…which is potatoes either way, and will still satiate your hunger! 😀
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You crack me up! I just found your blog – actually my Dutch husband shared it with me (it was the post that had something about ‘don’t let them make you cry’ -can’t remember exactly). I have had some awesome friet in Holland (Amsterdam and at the market in Laren believe it or not) and now, I want some…
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Thanks Nathalie! I’m close to Laren, so I’ll check the market out. Never been! Thanks 🙂
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Frietjes eten zonder zoute mayo van je vingers te hoeven likken… whats the fun about that?
They look delicious….
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It’s a good thing I’m in Utrecht at the moment as I am now craving fries. 😁
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