Sometimes you find yourself driving three hours for a plate of food that haunts your dreams, and when those dreams involve chili cheese fries from a small-town diner in the mountains of North Carolina, the journey becomes a pilgrimage worth every mile.
Ward’s Grill in Saluda, North Carolina serves up a plate of chili cheese fries that will make you question every other version you’ve ever encountered.
Tucked inside Thompson’s Store on Saluda’s picturesque Main Street, this unassuming eatery has been quietly perfecting comfort food while the culinary world chased trends and foam garnishes.
You’ve had chili cheese fries before – soggy potatoes drowning under neon orange cheese sauce and canned chili that tastes vaguely of the aluminum it came in…