The Grotto in Eureka Springs

I am a fancy person.  I have fancy tastes, and I do fancy things.  Last month I went to Eureka Springs (fancy) and while I was there I went to The Grotto (fancy).  The place is primarily a wood-fired pizza joint (so trendy), but as with a growing number of pizza places they also have fries.  I despise pizza so you will see no discussion of it here.

The Grotto has been all kinds of stuff over the years.  In fact part of the building is/was a live music club that I can sort of remember from my youth.  The restaurant part is mostly underground and you have to walk down some treacherous stairs to get there.  Whoa!  Look at that table right there on the stairs!  Someone would actually sit at that table?  Not fancy!

It was Saturday night and we didn't have a reservation but the maître de was cool and said we could have a table as long as we ghosted within an hour.  It was fun watching all the people come in after us and get denied a table in an otherwise empty restaurant on accounta the whole place was full with advance reservations.  Every single person left pissed.  Ha.

Fancy fries with fancy ketchup.

I wouldn't say that these miniature fry baskets are particularly fancy, but I let it slide cause the fries were REALLY GOOD.

Huge, crisp, fluffy.  And the Sriracha ketchup was on point.

So there you have it.  The Grotto = DO IT.

P.S.  There is another entrance where you don't have to walk down the stairs.

Taco Bell Nacho Fries

You've probably seen the commercials by now.  Taco Bell's new(ish) Nacho Fries promise a lot, so I jumped at the chance to try them last month.

I stopped at a super fancy looking TB outside of Tulsa.

  Hmm...$1 for fries sounds like a trap.

I got the regular ones and the "Nacho Fries Supreme" as well.  When in Rome...

Well...

The regular ones looked normal.  I couldn't tell if they were fried or cooked in one of those hot tornado air ovens though on accounta they weren't very crispy.  I called the Taco Bell later and the manager confirmed that they are indeed fried in oil.  Coulda fooled me.  They were meh.  And the nacho sauce tastes like foot sweat mixed with melted yellow crayons.

I only kinda picked at the supremes.  Gross as well.

I normally don't even bother anymore to write posts about joints where the fries suck, but I decided to do this one as a public service/warning.  DO NOT EAT TACO BELL FRIES.

They suck so bad they almost make me hate Taco Bell.

But not really.

Because that other stuff is so good.

I must have it.

Regularly.

Dammit.