Holey shoot! A while back, I held a vote about what to do on a particular weekend. The final tally ended up being a tie between the spectacular Ellora Caves, and the joke-answer, the waffle restaurant. And after the vote was closed, people kept voting, and when I got back from the caves, about a billion people were demanding waffle photos. Well, I did go to the restaurant the very next weekend, but I totally forgot to post the update! Ok, so not so much ‘forgot’ but ‘put it off because it’s kind of boring’ But because you, the people demanded it, here we go!

The newspaper had proclaimed this “India’s First Wafflle Restaurant”
I was unsure of what to expect, especially from a restaurant that spells the word “Waffle” incorrecty. It wasn’t just on the sign and the WafflleMobile, but on the menus, the custom made Wafflle tables, napkins, and the press releases they sent out to newspapers. It took a couple of hours and multiple forms of transportation to get there (at which point I earned from the sign on the Waffllemobile that they have a mini-store in the foodcourt of a mall near my house). This place was in the middle of an alley which itself was in turn in the middle of nowhere.

But would they be able to make a real waffle?

No.

They had two different waffle menus. One was the ‘Sweet’ menu. Al of these waffles were covered with things like ice cream, Gummi Bears, toffee fudge, and other forms of candied items. Then was the ‘Savory’ menu, which were topped with items like glazed onions, corn, cottage cheese, roasted bell peppers, pesto, wilted spinach, bbq sauce, dressed iceberg, and other items which are all well and good, but not exacty waffle toppings.

I spent the trip trying to teach them how to make a Waffle. Or ateast, one somewhere in between their two extremes.
“Okay, um… butter?”
“No sir, we don’t have butter.”
“Okay… I notice in your dessert menu, that you have fresh fruit on some of these items. Now.. would it be at all possible… to put the fresh fruit, on the waffle?”
“Like what?”
“How about Bananas?”
“Well sir, I can make you our ‘Banana Rum-ble Waffle”
“Ummm… okay.. but instead of preserved bananas in molasses and rum smothered in caramel, could you just not put any of that on my waffle and just put sliced bananas on it?

And that’s the story of Wafflle. THERE ARE YOU HAPPY????

Click to see the shocking aftermath of this original post!

After I posted this jokingly snarky update, I got the following reply
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hi could ryanestrada be kind enough to please teach me to make a waffle.n the changes he seems fit for our restaurants……this is nikhil / ceo of wafflles restaurants pvt ltd (sugestions are always welcome, we try and please as many as we can)…..n if u noticed the extra L on the name n on the waffllemobile, then i guess u shud just ask, cos that wud be simpler rather than guessing …..L is for luck( courtsey numerology)….and the next time i assure butter will never be absent.
i would be glad to answer any genuine waffle queries on nikhilmichael@gmail.com. please do visit www.wafflles.com
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I checked with the company to see if it was the real deal!
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From: info@wafflles.com
Mr. Ryan,
The comment received by yourself, was sent by our CEO Mr. Nikhil D’Souza and is
authentic. You can correspond with him on nikhil@wafflles.com or
nikhilmichael@gmail.com.
Thank you,
Wafflles Info team
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and another reply from the CEO..
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Hello people,
This is Nikhil D’Souza CEO WAFFLLES again. I am sorry for the punctuation marks. I represent a young and fun loving company and i am 26 years old. My Managing director is Vishal Chhabria, 25 years old.So you can judge that we have started young and that reflects in my mails. We have started WAFFLLES ( yes with the double L) to get the wonderful world of waffles to the wonderful people of Bombay. We are still a young and emerging company and are growing at a rapid pace. I hope all of the participants on this website would definetely appreciate us better, if you did visit our outlets, to actually see that we are a casual and informal all day diner.
Also i have an alternative email id nikhil@wafflles.com . I have already written to Ryan Estrada and invited him to eating waffles with me. Anyone from this group interested, can also please join in.
Thanks again and we at WAFFLLES are looking forward to serving you soon.
Nikhil D’Souza
CEO - WAFFLLES RESTAURANTS PVT LTD.

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