Tucson’s first poutine restaurant US Fries will officially open on Saturday and its throwing a party.
From 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. you can stop by and sample poutine.
What’s poutine, you ask?
That’s a question owner Tom Jones of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, hopes to answer by giving you a sample of his french fries slathered in brown gravy with cheese curds poking here and there and then topped with several choices of items, from pulled pork to roast beef.
On Saturday, he’s offering free samples of the ham and pineapple poutine, pulled pork and pickles or the traditional unadorned poutine.
US Fries, 340 N. Fourth Ave., will close up after the grand-opening shindig and reopen around 5 or 6 p.m. — just in time to capture the downtown crowd. Hours will be from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Mondays-Wednesdays, 11 a.m. to 3 a.m. Thursdays-Saturdays and 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sundays.
The Tucson restaurant is the first of what Jones hopes will be a chain.
US Fries is Tucson’s first restaurant devoted to poutine, but it’s not the first to offer the Canadian novelty. The Zany Beaver food truck rolled out its version of the Canuck comfort food in August 2013.
