Victor P.
Yelp
I am genuinely puzzled by the high ratings on Google and yelp. When this place first opened, I didn't know what a "French Fold" was at the time, but later learned that this place sells "French Tacos." I can only assume they renamed them to avoid mockery, given how seriously Angelenos are about tacos. To date, I have tried a French Fold with every protein option they offer. The guy working the counter is friendly, but I've found that the meat is consistently bland and unseasoned/minimally seasoned, even the marinated-looking pork, and frozen chicken nuggets/tenders, and the fries are flavorless and soggy. The only real flavor comes from the sauces. I typically went with a combination of algerienne and something else. The algerienne sauce is thankfully decent (not particularly "spicy" IMO, but I've had "spicy" food in Amsterdam and uh... I can see why it would be labeled as such here, I guess), but it's not enough to flavor the entire thing.
I've had excellent French dishes (mostly in Tokyo, for some reason), from fish pies to galettes, so I've been pretty let down by this. I don't know if it's inherent to this dish. In my limited experience, this is just a worse version of dönner kebab. From the other reviews, it seems that these are more or less authentic to French Tacos in France, which originated from a dönner kebab vendor. I'm curious.... if you had the option, why would you choose French folds over dönner kebab? I've had dönner kebab in the Netherlands and Italy and they've been consistently delicious and cheap. Personally, I would like for the meat, especially the ground beef, to be seasoned and the fried should maybe be salted and cooled on a cooling rack for a bit first to prevent getting soggy. Conceptually, a French taco is just American fast food as a wrap. It shouldn't taste bland, and that's really my main gripe. The food is filling and reasonably priced for the portion size, but for something that's so unhealthy anyway, it should at least taste good. My last order was a fold with the pork about 7 months ago. The pork looked like it was marinated but ended up being bland and rather dry, so I was really disappointed with that one and haven't been back since.