In which we review a local establishment’s French fries. Because it’s Friday, which sorta sounds like “Fries Day,” and there’s a whole weekend of French fries-eating ahead of you.
Place: Rayne’s Reef Luncheonette, 10 N Main St, Berlin, Md
Menu Says: Fries
Price: $2.49 for the small size, $3.49 for the large
This is another dispatch from our Eastern Shore excursion a couple of weeks ago. Berlin’s the town where a lot of Runaway Bride was shot (if you’re not familiar with the movie, like I wasn’t, I recommend strongly against adding it to your Netflix queue), and it was as quaint as that pedigree would suggest. At Rayne’s Reef our waiter was probably about 17 and wore a bow tie, and the menu and general atmosphere were about as all-American as you could hope for. The perfect place for some fry consumption!
I definitely enjoyed the fries we got. They were pretty classic “diner style”, meaning thick and potato-y, but they weren’t heavy or undercooked, a fairly common fate suffered by fries of this type. The fries weren’t all that flavorful, but a generous hand with the salt shaker remedied this issue to my satisfaction.
Overall, these french fries and Rayne’s in general get high marks from d,s. It’s worth a stop the next time you’re cruising around the Chesapeake area.
Berlin does disappoint–it wasn’t that quaint and everywhere you look there’s sign about how the town was once in a movie.
Admittedly, we really only stayed in Berlin long enough to have lunch. And like we mentioned, the waiter was decked out in a bowtie! Which is pretty much our definition of quaint, ha.
Oh my goodness! This is awesome. Friday dedicated to reviewing french fries. I know nothing else about your blog, but I’m already sold. My blog is called Sunshine and Potatoes because (as you can probably guess) those are two of my favorite things. I’ll be mentioning you.