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Live from East Liberty … its the Waffle Shop

April 23, 2009 Lindsay

I wanted to make sure to post about this before the spring semester ends.  I have made a few visits to the Waffle Shop in the past few months.

The Waffle Shop is a class project for the undergraduate art course – The Storefront Project which is taught at Carnegie Mellon.  Last semester it was Waffle Shop – a reality tv show.  For the spring semester it is Waffle Shop – The Talk Show.  The venue, which is the former tuxedo shop located at the corner of Highland and Baum in East Liberty has seen quite a transformation this semester.   The professor who was serving up waffles when I was there recently said there are more design students in the class this semester.

I think this project has been great for the neighborhood – what was once a vacant storefront is now filled with a range of people – CMU students, waffle seekers like me and even some high school students from the neighborhood.

The talk show aspect makes this more than just a place to eat waffles but a place to start a community conversation.  I am not sure what will happen to the shop over the summer – but I do hope that this project will continue in the fall – or someone will make this a real waffle shop.

Some things to note…

  • very limited hours – I want to point this out because most people think this is a real waffle shop – but since this is a student project the hours are very different from your average Ihop.
    • Friday 11pm-3am
    • Satruday  11pm-3am
    • Sunday 10am-2pm
  • they do serve waffles – but just waffles – no eggs or toast here – but there are usually 2 type of waffles – – I think the choco waffles are great and the last time I was there friend of IheartPGH enjoyed the meat lovers waffle.
  • cash only

So if you are in the neighborhood and would like to participate in a community talk show/college course – The Waffle Shop is worth a stop.

  • Post-Gazette Article on the Waffle Shop, December 2008

Here is a clip from the Waffle Shop Show – Episode 4

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6y3u6pPBU4&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]

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(I really want to get a Waffle Shop t-shirt – or maybe the Waffle shop should set up a Spreadhsirt shop 😉 – regular IheartPGH readers know that I work for Spreadshirt and I am passionate about getting more people to sell cool t-shirts).

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Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Food & Drink Tagged With: Carnegie Mellon University, East Liberty, Talk Show, waffle, Waffle Shop

About Lindsay

Lindsay has been writing about Pittsburgh since 2005. She likes pretzels from the Pretzel Shop on Carson St., used book stores, her rollerblades and she hopes to learn to skateboard someday soon.

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Comments

  1. Online Store says

    August 15, 2010 at 2:11 PM

    i think selling this through the internet can hit the market,

  2. Online Store says

    August 15, 2010 at 2:11 PM

    i think selling this through the internet can hit the market,

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