Our sides included: mac n cheese, lima beans, grits and collard greens. With a heap of syrup already on your table, you were expected to slather it up with melted butter, pour on the goo and eat it all up just like you would breakfast. And when it came time for ordering, it was almost like a scene from The Blues Brothers…’We’ll take four Midnight Trains!’Īnd there it was ~ a fat ass plate of four crispy chicken thighs, and a big ole waffle (yep, like a breakfast waffle) right in the midst of it all. The choices of food ranged from black-eyed peas, mac n cheese, collard greens, catfish, salmon to the most famous plate of all ~ The Midnight Train. The menu fit the standards of a Denny’s, with laminated pages of southern food plates and pictures to match them. We were in our sticky syrup drenched booth in no time. Turns out, the wait for our traditional southern viddles was short-lived. Lined with dark wooded walls and big leather booths, framed pics of famous people that had eaten there hung on the wall, and as I looked around… everyone, I mean everyone, was eating chicken. Instead, had the feel of a very nice Denny’s. No angry waitstaff, no line for food, no cash register to ring in your order and no pitchers of beer. And the interior, was pretty much nothing like we all imagined. When we walked in, the place was crawlin’. As hot as it was, still at about 97 degrees +, we were all surprised to see this famous waffle and wing joint over-flowing with people on a mid-afternoon Monday. It seemed iconic and one could certainly imagine seeing it from blocks away in the late midnight hours when the restaurant was still open on a Friday or Saturday night at 4 a.m. I know, sounds silly…but if you’ve never had Chicken and Waffles, these are all pretty normal questions, wouldn’t ya say?Īs we pulled up to the downtown Atlanta staple, the neon sign reading: Gladys Knight and Ron Winan’s Chicken & Waffles, hung high above the street. And if it was a typical breakfast-like ‘waffle’, would ya look like a person who didn’t know what they were doin’ if you asked for Syrup? What kind of chicken comes with your ‘waffle’? Breasts, legs, thighs, pieces?Ĥ. How were you supposed to eat your ‘waffle’? Does the ‘waffle’ act as blanket to coddle your chicken? And, would there be the typical ‘waffle-like’ condiments on the table if it were like a breakfast waffle (IE: syrup, butter)?ģ.
Was the ‘waffle’ like a waffle that you had for breakfast or was it like a potato-like pancake of sorts? Was it like a french fry kind of waffle?Ģ. The rest had ideas of imaging a chain-like restaurant feel, down to a hot spot that would serve us beers with every chicken piece we had.Īnd, because none of us had ever had ‘Chicken and Waffles’, there were many questions also prior to our arrival that had to do with eating this southern concoction:ġ. I thought I’d see some sort of diner-like interior with greasy booths and an angry waitstaff, or an open kitchen line where you’d have only three things to choose from, give your order, pay and then end up with a number to come pick up your tray of fixins. Food,” hosted by Emory grad Adam Richman.Īdditional reporting by AJC staff writer Willoughby Mariano.Here it is, the food experience y’all have been waiting to hear about…īecause none of us knew what to expect with our experience, we all conjured up our own ideas as to what it was going to look like inside this Hot Atlanta Food Spot. The Peachtree Street location was featured on a 2009 episode of “Man vs. The opening was attended by then-Mayor Bill Campbell, news anchors Monica Kaufman and Karyn Greer and R&B stars Aliyah and Ginuwine. The original Gladys Knight eatery opened in 1997 at 618 Ponce de Leon Ave., in Midtown. The restaurant’s disassociation from Gladys Knight signals the end of an era. The business passed a re-inspection with an 89/B Wednesday morning, according to a Fulton County health department spokeswoman. Officials also reported live roaches in the kitchen and “mold-like growth” on the inside and outside of two boxes of cream cheese. It failed three inspections in 2016.Īccording to the report, there was "no person in charge” of the establishment during the visit. The Monday visit from the health department was the first of four court-ordered health inspections for the downtown location. The restaurant's Lithonia spot closed permanently in August, with the Cascade Road location following suit in October. The federal case has been settled, but the terms were not disclosed.
In September, Knight filed suit to have her name removed from the restaurants, with Hankerson responding that Knight's "lack of mental capacity" barred her from removing it. MORE: Gladys Knight seeks to assure diners after restaurant fails health inspection MORE: Georgia agents raid Gladys Knight's Chicken and Waffles restaurants
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