Eddy Lainesse was a regular in Le Café Ideal in Montreal, Canada. One day in 1957, he asked the restaurateur Fernand Lachance to put cheese curds on his french fries. Lachance suddenly cried, “Ça va ...

Springtime in Chicago, when we stash away our April thermal parkas for May peacoats, seems like the ideal time for poutine. For the uninitiated of Quebec’s most famous culinary export, it is this: a ...

The Canadian restaurant franchise known as Smoke's Poutinerie opened its first Michigan location in Ann Arbor, serving up piping hot poutine and a variety of toppings from jalapenos to pulled pork.

Western New York is full of weird and wild foods- and we’re going to try them for you. When Hertel Avenue Poutine and Cream opened in May 2017, they brought the zany “freak shake” to Buffalo. “They’re ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - The thought of poutine - basically, gravy fries made a variety of ways - might be best described in the low-brow, we've-all-been-there: "drunk food." But at Banter, consider it ...

The scene: While not quite ubiquitous, like the hot wings that appear on virtually every menu in Buffalo, poutine is widespread and never far from the Montreal visitor. Many restaurants offer it as a ...

Robert Sietsema is the former Eater NY senior critic with more than 35 years of experience covering dining in New York City. Call them disco fries with its gravy and liquid cheese, or Irish nachos ...