| Pommes Frites | |
| Current-Owner: | Susan Levison, Omer Shorshi |
| Food-Type: | French fries |
| City: | New York City |
| State: | New York |
| Country: | United States |
| Website: | http://www.pommesfritesnyc.com/ |
Pommes Frites is a New York City restaurant which specializes in Belgian-style fries. The restaurant was located in the East Village at 123 2nd Avenue (near 7th Street),[1] but relocated to 128 MacDougal Street after the original building was destroyed in a 2015 natural gas explosion.
The restaurant sells only one food item: fries, served in paper cones, with a variety of sauces to choose from.[2] Fries are prepared in the Belgian style, deep fried twice at two different temperatures. Additionally, a variety of European beers, soft drinks, and fruit smoothies are offered as beverages.
The shop was opened by Susan Levison, a Bronx native, in January 1997 after returning from a backpacking trip through the low countries. (At the time of its destruction, she co-owned the restaurant with Omer Shorshi.) Nine months after it opened, New York Magazine reported that there were lines outside the restaurant every day.[3] At one time, the restaurant had expanded to two locations, as well a copycat restaurant under the same name with a different owner, but by 2013 only the original location remained.[4]
On March 26, 2015, the restaurant was destroyed when the building which housed it collapsed, following a natural gas explosion.[5] No Pommes Frites customers or employees were seriously injured, although an employee and a customer of another nearby restaurant were killed.[6] Pommes Frites reopened on May 23, 2016.[7]