Vegan Waffle Sandwiches
The waffle, with its elegant and demanding little troughs, is the brainchild of the Belgians. However, that does not prevent our home turf -- the presently sunny hamlet of Portland, Oregon -- from having its own page in the grand history of the waffle. After all, it is here that Bill Bowerman ruined his wife's waffle iron by pouring rubber into it, inventing the first lightweight Nike running shoe. It is in this state that young Steve Prefontaine set the American record for a 5000 meter race wearing waffles on the soles of his feet. A noble lineage, indeed. However, friends, Portland's association with waffle greatness does not end with Pre's violent, breakfast-unrelated, death. A new page has been written.
Inside this innocuous North Portland food stand, very appropriately named "Flavour Spot," we meet waffle history in the making. What? You doubt that breakfast is being redefined in a Videorama parking lot? You doubt a meager cart's limited kitchen can supply the fluff and sweetness of a superlative waffle? Not only are your doubts worthy of shattering, reader, but they should be cast into the river. Flavour Spot delivers delicately foil-wrapped waffle sandwiches filled with any measure of things. On our first visit, we timidly chose what had been recommended to us: a vegan waffle, freshly ironed, with veggie sausage and the sweetest, honey-thick maple syrup folded inside of it. The sausage was perfect, and creamy maple syrup a perfect complement to the meat's savor. As for the waffle, need I explain? Light, just barely crisp on the outside, the fleecy dough on the inside commensurate to balmy morning on which we discovered it.
Perhaps this was the best thing on the menu, but from the looks of it (a fresh waffle wrapped around a chocolate coated slab of vanilla ice cream? A PB & J offering? Vegan mallow-fluff? Nutella?) there may be much more to discover. And at an average price $4.00, the risk of trial and error is deliciously encouraged.
FLAVOUR SPOT is located on N. Lombard Ave, between Greeley and Denver, in the Videorama parking lot. MAP HERE
Monday-Friday 6:30-3:00, Saturday 8-3. 503-289-YUMM (seriously).
A Harlem thing is late night fried chicken and waffles - sooo setian fried chicken and vegan waffles? Unlike honey, maple syrup is vegan...
Is it just the angle of the picture, because that waffle looks massive! Anyway, the meal sounds good.
You might like the Vegan Forums.
I just found a link to their official site via the Food Fight blog!
http://www.flavourspot.com/
i might like to argue that chicken and waffles is an LA thing.
http://www.roscoeschickenandwaffles.com/
as referenced in many a hip hop song.
Trust me guys, Steve KNOWS L.A. He's got the cap credentials yo!
Also, he's right. Brooklyn has nothing on Roscoe's... silly wiggaz.
I'd heard great things about this place...will definitely be checking it out--they even threw in the extra vowel to show off how much FLAVOUR they have!
This place rocks!
Roscoe's is pretty unfuckwithable. And if you don't like the chicken, you can always buy bootleg DVDs out of some guy's trunk in the parking lot.
These waffles look amazing and I can't wait to sample them, but, from a childhood spent near the headwaters of the Willamette river, I must, most strenuously, insist that Prof. Bowerman's happy waffles-for-the-feet mutation, and the popular saga of Prefontaine, his foremost mutant champion, all occured a hundred and ten miles south of Portland in that town Nineteenth Century euro-american colonists named for the proprietor of that region's original riverboat terminus, Mr. Eugene Skinner.
this is now my favorite place!