{"id":1253,"date":"2018-10-18T02:27:01","date_gmt":"2018-10-18T02:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/?p=1253"},"modified":"2022-12-28T04:55:33","modified_gmt":"2022-12-28T04:55:33","slug":"funk-n-waffles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/funk-n-waffles\/","title":{"rendered":"Funk n&#8217; Waffles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ask people where you should eat in Syracuse, and more times than not they&#8217;ll say Dinosaur Barbeque. And when you tell them you went to Syracuse, and you didn&#8217;t go to Dinosaur Barbeque, they&#8217;ll gasp and sigh as you passed on the opportunity of a lifetime. I am not kidding.<\/p>\n<p>Dinosaur Barbeque must be really good. But I&#8217;ve had barbecue in North Carolina, and most southern states. And I&#8217;ve never had fried chicken served on a waffle before. So when I was in Syracuse, I opted to dine at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.funknwaffles.com\/our-menu\/\">Funk n&#8217; Waffles<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/28358448937_9846945150_c.jpg\" alt=\"Funk n Waffles in Syracuse\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2070\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/28358448937_9846945150_c.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/28358448937_9846945150_c-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/28358448937_9846945150_c-230x307.jpg 230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Funk n&#8217; Waffles<\/strong> is a groovy little restaurant that serves fried chicken tenders on waffles, with an optional selection of sauces. I think I got the &#8216;spicey maple&#8217;. Soul-warming and unexpectedly decadent. Crisp and tender. Savory and sweet. Recommended. Their logo is a waffle on a record turntable &#8212; doesn&#8217;t get much cooler than that.<\/p>\n<p>I spent some time wandering around Downtown Syracuse. I walked past Dinosaur Barbeque &#8212; it was packed, inside and out. Decorated with cartoon dinosaurs. I didn&#8217;t get a second dinner, but I thought about it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The colorfully illuminated art-deco Niagara Mohawk Building:<\/strong><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/28972023028_1d4e555709_o.jpg\" alt=\"The colorfully illuminated art-deco Niagara Mohawk Building:\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2072\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/28972023028_1d4e555709_o.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/28972023028_1d4e555709_o-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/28972023028_1d4e555709_o-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/28972023028_1d4e555709_o-230x230.jpg 230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>A road cone with koi painted on it:<\/strong><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/28934093178_24d7799a26_o.jpg\" alt=\"A road cone with koi painted on it\" width=\"640\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2073\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/28934093178_24d7799a26_o.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/28934093178_24d7799a26_o-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/28934093178_24d7799a26_o-230x288.jpg 230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>A metallic building:<\/strong><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/42904710661_6a73634c09_o.jpg\" alt=\"Metallic building in Syracuse\" width=\"640\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2074\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/42904710661_6a73634c09_o.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/42904710661_6a73634c09_o-300x281.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/42904710661_6a73634c09_o-230x216.jpg 230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The reason why I was in Syracuse, might be more interesting than this story: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/brood-vii-the-onondaga-brood-will-emerge-in-new-york-state-in-2018\/\">17-year Cicadas<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ask people where you should eat in Syracuse, and more times than not they&#8217;ll say Dinosaur Barbeque. And when you tell them you went to Syracuse, and you didn&#8217;t go to Dinosaur Barbeque, they&#8217;ll gasp and sigh as you passed &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[72,66,76],"class_list":["post-1253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food-beverages","tag-72","tag-new-york","tag-syracuse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}