Where to Get Your Real-Deal Chicken and Waffles On

The holy grail.hahaPhoto: Daniel Maurer

上周not-exactly-starving喜剧演员阿齐兹二甲胂酸iwaxed poetic about chicken and waffles, to the delight of a commenter whowrote:

Sweet. A famous person who actually eats! Also, weAREtalking waffles and dinges right? How long do you have to hunt for this thing? I mean I know they put the vicinity it is in on their website, but somehow I imagine hunting for it to be on part with a stoner-type cross between Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure and the hunt forExcalibur.

That’s what we’re talking about.haha

Actually, Aziz was talking about chicken and waffles as served at Roscoe’s in L.A., not theWafels and Dinges truck, but since we’ve found the soul-food dish just as hard to get hold of (Aziz, after all, was appalled about having to settle for the luxe version of chicken and waffles served atPark Avenue Autumn), we thought we’d tell you where to find the real deal— the tinyLittle House on Clinton, where fluffy mini-waffles are prepared in skillets behind the front counter and can be topped with nuts or fruits and paired with wings, breasts, or thighs that can in turn be topped withBBQ, jerk, teriyaki, or buffalo sauce. (Shown here: the $5 “snack” size— topped with plain ol’ syrup.) Our favorite part about the experience: not being treated like raving madmen as we are when we ask the waiter atOdessato combine an order of chicken with an order of waffles. Then again, this always happens around 5 a.m., so we suppose we’d treat us like madmentoo.