The Waffle Affair Is NOT Another Waffle Sandwich Shop

When I wrote about The Waffle Affair earlier this year and predicted it was going to be “another waffle sandwich shop”, their PR person e-mailed me and set me straight. “Waffle sandwiches aren't even on the menu, they offer modern variations on...

I've written posts with similar headlines before. Many times. Care to guess what The Waffle Affair is going to be? Yes, it's yet another waffle sandwich shop. This one is slated to open in Bayside Center in Newport Beach, a few doors down from...

A lot of restaurants opened this month, but none so anticipated as Twenty Eight, the modern Chinese place by Top Chef finalist Shirley Chung in Irvine. But December was also the month we saw more Dunkin' Donuts, more Japanese-fast-food-fusion...

For a city that can’t agree on a common language, the people of Brussels are united in pride on the waffle, their defining regional foodstuff. To them, a proper waffle is what a thin-crust pizza is to a New Yorker. Recently, the president of...

The best waffles commercially available, I am prepared to state, come from Brown Sugar Kitchen, a small, fragrant breakfast diner on Mandela Parkway in West Oakland. The waffles, Tanya Holland’s cornmeal-enhanced riff on Marion Cunningham’s famous...