3) Crinkly, curly and, particularly, "spicy" fries.
The restaurant, announced this week, will focus exclusively on spicy fried chicken sandwiches.
The dish we liked the best was the spicy fried pork — shredded, crunchy and with a kick.
She makes a Vietnamese-style sorghum caramel with fish sauce, lime and chiles to glaze pork belly, and coats spicy fried walnuts or pine nuts with sorghum.
Other tasty options include the fried rice with pork belly, roast pork and chicken (7 euros) and the spicy fried noodles with pork and prawns (10 euros).
Heat is something of a theme at the Firehouse Grille, which offers spicy fries, several hot chilis, a house-made horseradish dipping sauce for onion rings, and jalapeños as a sandwich topping.
There is a delicious macaroni and cheese, a spicy fried oyster po boy that looks like it's on steroids, as well as tuna tartare and a large, leafy salad weighed down with sliced avocado.
We shower and then bathe, and off we run again, to the beach, for a plate of spicy fried rice and a fiery curry pot, desperate for more of the heat inside.
Stroll up Alcalá, a cobblestone street lined with brightly hued colonial facades, and then continue on to the compact, bustling Mercado Juárez, the perfect place to sample the locals' favorite street food: chapulines, or spicy fried grasshoppers.
Maratea has a clutch of excellent restaurants; a long-established favourite is La Taverna Rovita (00 39 0973 876588), which serves up Lucanian specialities such as game, local salamis and spicy fried calamari.
A simple red lentil dal, seasoned with salt, pepper and a mild curry powder (or just turmeric), and finished with spicy fried onions, is delicious comfort food of the healthiest sort.
