What Are French Tacos and What Are They Doing in Seattle? | Eater Seattle

"Operating out of a storage-container-sized ghost kitchen in Capitol Hill, Brick’N’Cheese is run by French entrepreneurs Baptiste Petit and Samy El Jabri and brings the French tacos craze from Canada to Seattle. I watched Petit assemble a brick in the bare-bones space: a large flour tortilla filled with French fries, cheddar cheese, cheese sauce, chipotle sauce, caramelized onions, and meat, pressed on a panini grill. Their signature brick specifically includes ground beef and chopped-up fried chicken alongside the fries, cheese, and chipotle; the result is cheesy, meaty, comforting (the kind of gut-buster that stacks up well against Chipotle and, in flavor profile, resembles Taco Time). Founded as a takeout-only ghost kitchen in Vancouver in April 2020 and later expanded to a Toronto brick-and-mortar, the chain is now testing U.S. waters; for now the founders are cooking in Seattle themselves with one employee, offering delivery through apps or at an unmanned takeout tablet, and despite a rocky first day with Uber Eats the bricks are already finding an audience." - Harry Cheadle