3 Potato 4
Food: 4 out of 5
Overall: 3.5 out of 5 (limited menu)
Unfortunately I forgot to take photos so you will just have to imagine. This is a cool little spot in historic Salem inside the mall near the parking garage. Since Ethan has been eating gluten free we've had to get creative in finding food on vacation. This little shop only serves potatoes - regular or sweet - wedged or waffled - that's it. Potatoes are their thing.
After getting over my initial disappointment that they wouldn't make me a baked potato I learned that they have about 15 different freshly made sauces including jalapeno barbecue, pesto mayo, honey mustard, and our favorite - sundried tomato basil ketchup. These were fabulous and we got to taste test a few of the sauces after we chatted with the guy there for a while.
The potatoes are baked, not fried, so they don't feel greasy or heavy when you are eating them. We got a sweet potato/potato combo, both agreeing that the sweet potatoes outweighed the regular potatoes in terms of flavor, but smothered in honey mustard, both were equally delicious.
It was kind of odd that they don't sell anything other than potatoes. With a whole storefront it seems like you would need more than spuds to keep a business going. But apparently it is working for them with other shops in major cities like Las Vegas and San Francisco. Anyway, the limited menu is really the only downside. The store itself is very cool and innovative - they have neat cone-shaped to-go cups with circular holders built into the counter so you can set them down to add salt, pepper, bacon salt( freaky).
I think Salem itself was kind of disappointing although they do have a few cute shops and one awesome bookstore. We got kind of lost and that is always a downer. The highlight of the trip was definitely the Nightmare Gallery across from the wax museum (which was SUPER LAME). We had the best time checking out all the horror movie icons and its nice to see a place run by someone who obviously cares so much about the place.
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