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| - With a few tweaks, this could be a 5*.
First, I can walk here from my house. There go any weight loss goals. Much needed in Shaker, where the only other decent place to eat is J. Pistone.
Second, THE DONUFFLE!!! To hell with the cronut, right? I mean it's just a waffle shaped like a long john with donut glaze but the waffle is fluffy inside, slightly crispy outside and the glazes are AMAZING. Cookies and creme donuffle is probably my favorite thing to eat ever. Lemon zest glaze is awesome. I tasted salted caramel and chantilly cream as well, also killer. For the plain old waffles, my son had a sweet potato waffle infused with apples. Didn't even need the syrup. YUM FIVE MILLION STARS.
On my second visit, I ordered my husband the TacOMG with pork. It's a taco on a waffle. He liked it but wasn't drooling. The sweet potato waffle fries... had a nice touch of cinnamon, but i think they were fired too early and ended up soggy. I ordered the Nutty Professor - nutella, peanut butter, chantilly cream and your choice of fruit on a waffle. Cream was excellent, but the waffle got soggy in the time it took for them to give it to me and for me to get home (literally a 2 min drive). Maybe they prepared it too early while waiting for the taco one or something?
On the plus side, they ran out of shredded lettuce for the tacOMG and offered to refund me. I said, who cares about lettuce on a taco, and they said, no, really. So I told them to comp me a donuffle instead, and that is how I met a waffle covered in oreo glaze. YES. The owner definitely wants to please his customers and was super nice.
So, I think the problems could be solved with better timing of when things are fired and prepared. Like, make all the waffles and then don't top them til the last minute? There are plenty of staff, seems like there could be some kind of organized line to make things go faster, there is definitely a decent wait. Maybe make the waffles you're going to top with stuff extra crispy on the outside or something? I don't know. But I will eat more donuffles, weight watchers be damned.
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