waffle champion

table for 2 @ lunch day-classic chicken and waffles with boxed water! it was excellent! very urban. i purchased gift cards for my co-workers and 2 more boxed waters to-go. this is a well keep secret.

waffle. great food nicely portioned and organic.

a regular favorite.. i get into waffle champion about once every 2-3 weeks, mid-week. i've never had to wait for very many people in line ahead of me, but i admit, midweek, mid-morning is when i go. after people are at work, right before the lunch crowd. i like to take a book and just relax for at least a good hour. i always get a cup of the green chile corn chowder. it is just amazing. i love it. i could eat that stuff every single day and not get tired of it. one day i keep telling myself, i'll try to potato n' leek chowder, but i just can't pass up the green chile corn chowder. i'm hooked. with that, i usually get the buttermilk fried chicken liege, but occasionally, i'll go for the pit ham or the bacon, egg, and cheese. all are great. i've never been let down. that fried chicken is just right with that honey. the pit ham with the fried pickles, outstanding. the soup though, it just completes anything. i'm a big fan of the maine root beverages. i actually think the diet maine root is sweeter tasting than the cola, but i could be crazy. like them all though. one of these days, i'm going to get myself a beer. i just never decide until right after i've ordered a soda or tea. lol. i like to try the specials on the column. they're usually pretty interesting and fun, but really, really good. the staff has never been anything but courteous. i don't know, maybe it's because i'm a 32 year old male, not far off from the guys usually behind the counter, but i'm supremely comfortable in there. people have told me my generation expects good service and complains when they don't get it. i don't know if that's true, but i admit, i expect kindness. i get it there. i give people smiles, say please and thank you, and they always do the exact same, usually going a step beyond. you treat people well, they do the same. people griping about service, ask yourself why. yes, it's their job to go above and beyond, but what exactly is the issue? are you doing something? expecting something more than just service? i've never and i mean never been treated with anything but respect and kindness there. it takes a couple minutes, but would you rather they had waffles just hanging out by a heat lamp? this isn't a breakfast buffet. seating isn't overflowing, but sometimes i'm sure it's full. that's what good, busy places do. they fill up. i have been there many times when it was very busy. it wasn't overwhelmingly loud. not at all. loudest part was the talk of the customers, not the kitchen, not the music. remember, i said i take a book. if it's quiet enough i can read, i promise it's not that loud. "only one person taking orders." how many registers up there do you see? it's not walmart with 20 registers and 2 open. "place was half empty, had to wait while they assigned seating." must've been a holiday or something. i've never had to be seated there. not once. and again, i go pretty dang often. the biggest complaint if any that i have is the parking. they know it's inconvenient. there aren't many spots not marked for apartments or other businesses. that's a shame. i wish those same people were restricted to those spots. i've been there with a 100% full lot, parked a block away, and walked in with 4 people in there. every customer and staffer, and the lot wouldn't be half filled. that's just the way it is when you go to a neighborhood in a busy area. i can live with that. the food and the people more than make up for anything.

great waffles/slow service/horrendously loud music.. superb waffles, but the awful music ruined my birthday breakfast bc i couldn't hear myself think or my friends' and family's conversations. the poor kids at the table next to us were covering their ears. the ordering system needs to be reworked. there were too many people standing in line and lots of empty tables.

line out the door - and only one person taking orders, while cooks waited. and the manager stood by clueless.. i should have snapped a picture. this place has two order stations and you'd think with 20 people standing in line they would take orders at both.... not here. not at noon on fridays anyway.

what looked to be the manager just wandered in and out of the kitchen area clueless that his cooks were standing waiting for orders to come through and meanwhile customers were waiting. food runners were busy assigning tables to the people in line - hello the problem isn't "where are we are going to sit? the place was half empty... the problem is "when are your going to take my order?"

once i got to the order station with cash in hand, it took forever for the cashier to record that i wanted the fried chicken and a drink. that ipad is cool technology, but your customers could probably enter their own orders faster.

fix the bottleneck at the register. it took me 15 minutes to get to order and two minutes to get my food. in the meantime, the place was half empty.

i've been there before and experienced a painfully long wait in line to order. this time it was time to tell someone about it.

the great thing about waffle champion is that the ingredients are all exciting gourmand offerings. there is thick cut bacon in this baby, along with free range eggs and tillamook cheddar cheese.

disappointed. the waffle used in place of bread was cold and tasteless. the presentation was bad and the value was worse. i had gone in hopeful but was definitely disappointed. all i can say is save your hard earned money.

the migas sandwich. this was my second experience at waffle champion. the service is prompt and the combination of fresh ingredients work well together.

cool concept, great variety, friendly staff, reasonable prices. i showed up 5 minutes before closing; a lot of restaurant staff would've refused to serve me or given me attitude about it, but not these guys. migas waffle actually had good migas inside of it, which is hard to find outside of the sw/texas. impressed. worth a visit.

good food but that music...... this was our 4th trip to waffle champion for breakfast. the previous 3 times were enjoyable with good food and service. this time however was less than pleasant. the music was so loud that the louder the music the louder the conversations became. we thought maybe since we had my mother-in-law with us that it was just us, but a large group of parents and children came in and the children immediately put their hands over their ears. we asked a waiter if the music could be turned down a notch and he said he would. he did not. it seemed as though he turned it up louder. i think if you choose to play music it should be directed to your clientele and not your staff. we watched others eating and the louder and faster the music the faster people ate. maybe this is your plan to move tables. we don't mind the music but it shouldn't be the reason people eat at the waffle champion.

waffle champion review. my husband and i were so excited to eat at waffle champion for breakfast today! it would be our first experience to eat there. we were very disappointed as my belgian waffle was very over cooked to the point it was too hard! the cinnamon cream cheese syrup however was wonderful. the blaring music at 7:30 am left a lot to be desired! i guess if we wore dentures they definitely would be rockin! indeed a few changes are in order!

always delicious!


-----29 oct, 2013-----

great food, but incompetent staff

great chicken and waffles!. chicken and waffle was great...a bit pricey though. service is in great need of improvement as they were all unfriendly, annoyed, or disinterested.

better when they were a truck. we absolutely loved waffle champion when they were a food truck. we constantly raved about them to all our friends and were never disappointed with anything we tried. well, the truck is no more and now they are a restaurant. we gave it a shot and were very disappointed. the food wasn't as good and just not the same. on the truck they had sweet and savory choices, all served as a waffle sandwich. i ordered a sweet variety and when i got it, it was not a sandwich. just a bunch of toppings thrown on a waffle. and i was even missing a topping. i was informed that the sweets menu does not come sandwich style now. bummer!!! my husband ordered his debris style (toppings thrown on a waffle) and his came as a sandwich. both orders messed up. the food was alright, but it just wasn't the same. the flavor combinations that they came up with on the truck were just not there. and they had no sweet combinations at all...you were on your own to come up with one. when they were a truck, they were worth standing in line for. now, i'll pass. bring back the truck!

mass confusion. well, it was our first time to waffle champion, came highly recommended from my brother, and his doctor son in law. saturday morning 8 march 14. we approached the cashier and did not know what to order, so i ordered 2 waffles, 2 eggs, bacon and coffee....my wife wanted one waffle, 2 eggs, bacon and coffee...the cashier said $26.00 please....i was quite shocked, but paid it, got our coffee and sat down....our order came, we got 3 waffles, one order of bacon, and 8 over easy eggs....he did get us another order of bacon, and when we asked why we got 8 eggs, he said hmmmmmm must be a mistake somewhere...he went to the cashier and brought us $6.00 dollars...i still think $20.00 was to expensive for the food we got....the coffee was good and hot, and the eggs and waffles were good,although very expensive..but we still don't know why we got 8 eggs.......what an experience.