Next stop: Frites Alors

Frites Alors can be found at 3497 St. Laurent (and many other places around Montreal) and they sell Belgian fries. Apparently, these fries are special in that they're fried in horse oil. Me and a friend decided to try it out and we ordered fries with 3 different dipping sauces: Bearnaise, Pistou rose, and Frite alors.

We weren't really impressed. After trying all three of the dipping sauces, my friend concluded that the best dipping sauce for fries is ketchup. The sauces didn't really complement the fries all that well, and the temperature of the fries made a difference to which one we liked best. When the fries were hot, we enjoyed the Pistou rose the most, but when we revisited the fries after they cooled off, the Frites alors actually tasted the best. All in all, I wasn't so satisfied with these fries and would rather make a visit to Mcdonalds for fries with ketchup.

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Yeh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, the frozen yogurt place doesn't have THAT many exclamation points behind the name, but I got excited. Further up the street from Juliette & Chocolat, you'll find "Yeh!", a place that sells frozen yogurt and toppings BY WEIGHT! Exciting, right? That means for all you toppings lovers out there, you can get the tiny-est blob of frozen yogurt and TONS and TONS of toppings to go with it.

Here's how it works:

You start at the back, where you have 8 different frozen yogurt flavours to choose from (When I was there I got to taste test the flavours)

You take a cup and fill it with whichever flavours and however much frozen yogourt you desire

Then you move to the toppings bar where you'll find toppings varying from fresh fruits to chopped up chocolate bars to granola to dark chocolate sauce that hardens. It's a world of possibilities.


ET VOILA: the finished product

Mine's the one on the right (a slightly more healthy alternative to my friend's topping choices on the left). But it's a pretty decent sized dessert and I paid around $5 for mine. I would toooootally go back there, except next time I'd probably keep it simple (plain yogurt, strawberries, and chocolate glaze perhaps). I got a little excited my first time there and put 4 different frozen yogurt flavours and toppings of all sorts. Needless to say, the taste of the toppings pretty much masked any frozen yogurt flavours i had chosen, and I had so many toppings that some didn't complement each other so well. But now I know!


And for all those out there who don't know "frozen yogurt" as "fro-yo" yet, here's some new slang for you! Next time you are in the mood for frozen yogurt, you'll know to suggest to your friends "let's get some fro-yo at yeh!!!!!!!"

FRO YO and toppings,
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