If you were given a blind taste test and told to identify the food that you ate, no one would guess that they had eaten a waffle. I tried the lumberjack waffle which comes with maple butter and bacon crumbles on top. First the waffle. It is a dense black hole of dough. I understand why so many reviewers thought that it was only partially cooked. This is not your fluffy waffle with pockets of air bubbles inside. Rather, it's exactly like a hunk of half-cooked cookie dough. Solid through and through. It doesn't come with syrup. There are 2 reasons that Cast Iron Waffles doesn't offer syrup. 1) This kind of dense doughy waffle wouldn't absorb any syrup. The syrup would bounce right off this thing, and 2) syrup costs money. Now lets talk about the toppings. The "maple butter" is really extremely sweet maple icing, like the stuff you would decorate a cake with. There is a lot of it and it completely overpowers any other tastes on the plate. Can't taste the bacon and can't taste the waffle. The owners of Cast Iron are trying to run a restaurant as cheaply as possible. Everything screams CHEAP in this place. Plastic plates and forks for example. Did I mention there's no syrup? And, get this, self serve room temp tap water that you get from an urn at the end of the counter. You get up from your table and fetch yourself a small cup of luke warm water. For the diner's pleasure, a stack of small plastic cups sits in repose by the urn. I would be embarrassed to bring a guest to this place. I would suggest that the owners change the name of this small, badly executed restaurant to "Maple Frosted Cookie Dough"
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