Waffles and Dinges

Waffles and Dinges started out as a food truck serving Belgian waffles the streets of NYC. Its popularity soon grew and more trucks were added. It now has a cafe located in East Village (just a few streets north of our apartment), as well as the distinctive yellow trucks that pop up all around the city.

We were frequent visitors to the trucks on previous visits, and were very excited to discover their bricks and mortar location only a few streets away. Essentially, you get a freshly made waffle with your choice of condiments (dinges, which is Dutch/Flemish for thing) including icecream, cream, specaloos spread, dulce de leche, chocolate, nuts, strawberries - you get the picture. 

The Liege waffles are the go, they are more chewy and probably contain more butter, but that's how they make them taste good I suppose. Being of Dutch heritage, we grew up with specaloos, a shortcrust spiced bickie. The Belgians have taken it one step further and have specaloos specaloos spread, essentially the rich caremelly and lightly spiced flavour that you can spread on your waffle. They also have specaloos icecream which is delicious. 

All in all, it is a pretty epic dessert, and hits the spot after a day on your feet exploring the city. They also do savoury waffles with things like pulled pork and eggs and bacon. We haven't tried these yet, but they would be pretty good brunch options, in a city where it's ok to eat fried chicken and maple glazed bacon at 10am in the morning. 

(This was taken in the toilet, but shows the food trucks in action...)