Soul Food

It's Teacher Inservice Days, so we have a bit more flexibility with lunch than usual. In other words, we have more than 25 minutes to eat and don't have a bell that signals we have to get back to work. We took advantage of that today, by heading down to West Baltimore for a new restaurant: Immeasurable Chicken and Waffles.

I'd just heard an NPR story on chicken and waffles, so I knew a little bit about this southern delicacy. I was still really curious what it looked like, and was eager to go. I'm still a vegetarian, so I wasn't going to partake (and, frankly, it's fried chicken and chicken wings that most make me want to be a vegetarian - I hate seeing people eat off bones - so there was going to be no temptation).

I got a waffle, some eggs, and hush puppies. The waffle was about the best I ever had - it nearly melted in my mouth. The eggs were mediocre. We had three rounds of hush puppies at our table, and the first round had some frozen corn in them, but the latter two rounds were toasty and good.

Everyone else pretty much enjoyed, but it took nearly an hour to get everyone's food out there to us. There were 8 of us there for lunch, and the place had a few other tables there, and a few people getting takeout. There appeared to be just 4 or 5 employees, total, and they were a little overwhelmed by our large party.

So there's my restaurant review. I'm trying to write a little every day.