Pommes Boutique, Munich (Pommes Boutique, Munich)

Member Name: SugarSpun

Product:	Pommes Boutique, Munich
Date:	17/09/09 (9 review reads)
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Advantages: Great chips

Disadvantages: Small

The Pommes Boutique is a Belgian chip restaurant on Amalienstrasse, in the student-friendly Schwabing district of Munich. Their main menu item is chips, and although you can buy various meaty and vegetarian accompaniments to your Euro3 bag of chips these really are side attractions.

The restaurant itself is very, very small. Perhaps 20 people could sit inside, if they all knew each other very well and didn't mind sitting close together. You'd get maybe another ten outside. The walls are painted in bright colours and the seats are the same wood as the tables. The counter's metallic and the kitchen's completely open - the twin fryers are about four feet from the countertop and you can almost look right in.

The chips are your standard Belgian fries, which might be the best in the world. They're fried twice - the first time till they're almost perfect, then they're taken out of the fryer and put into the second one, which I think is a different temperature to make sure that the inside is soft and fluffy and the outside crisp and firm. They come in a compact little paper bag, and at first glance you wonder why they're so stingy with the chips - but they're filling and the bag's actually the perfect serving size.

The little extra that makes the Pommes Boutique so cool is their wall of condiments. For 50 cents you get a little tub and permission to make free with the 50 different types of sauce lurking in the dispensers along the wall. There's standard ketchup, mayo and mustard, spicy Samurai sauce, garlic and pepper mayos and a whole array of other stuff besides. I'm rather partial to Samurai sauce, which is pink and spicy, and Diesel, which is an unattractive yellowish colour and a sweetish-spicy curry.

If you happen to be in Munich, this is well worth a visit. It's about 400m from the Universitat U-Bahn stop and the road it's on has really, really good people-watching.

Summary: Good chips are hard to find in Munich - PB has cracked it!