Location: Various Locations along I-95
I was surprised to see on the Gourmet section of your I-95 web site that no one had mentioned Waffle House! Being a native of Atlanta, Georgia, I became familiar with the uniquely Southern restaurants on road trips. The slogan is “Good Food Fast”, and that’s what you’ll get! From (of course) waffles to hamburgers to grits to hashbrowns (scattered, smothered covered, chunked, topped, and/or diced), the Waffle House menu offers good food at a very low price. Eerily, every Waffle House from Murfreesboro, Tennessee, to Daytona Beach, Florida, is exactly like every other one, but at least the food, service and prices are consistent!
These places are NOT for asthmatics. If you smoke, this is your restaurant! (Waffle Houses are scattered about the Southeast. Like a recent radio ad in Atlanta said, “How would an interstate exit look without a Waffle House? Pretty lonely, I guess.)
For those of you going between Chicago and Disney World by car, there is an excellent restaurant for you to try: the Waffle House. My orchestra (Waubonsie Valley High School of Aurora, IL) took a trip through there by bus, and all along the road were Waffle Houses, sometimes as many as two or three to an exit. We stopped at one, and it was the best waffle I had ever had. There are fifty-two (two of them are Waffle Steaks, but I don’t remember if they were on I-95 or not) between Chicago and Disney, most of which are on I-95. I hear there are two in Orlando, but we only saw one. We slept in shifts to count them all. Try them, you’ll thank me for it.
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