I spent Waffle Day at Duck & Waffle in Edinburgh and discovered a new taste sensation

With Monday, March 25 International Waffle Day for 2024, what better way to mark the occasion than trying out an Edinburgh restaurant's special waffle menu?

Duck & Waffle at St James Quarter is offering a two-course Waffle Week menu to customers to mark International Waffle Day this year.

The menu, running until March 29, includes a choice between mascarpone and wild garlic pesto or chicken and waffle for the main. With pudding offerings of knickerbocker glory or tiramisu.

I plumped for the hearty chicken and waffle option, a feast of food served on a cornbread waffle, with fried chicken, pickles, coriander and topped with Frank's Red-Hot Sauce Butter. Now, I would never mix waffle and chicken at home, why would anyone? But this truly was a taste sensation that I never knew I needed in my life!

The tasty knickerbocker glory at Duck & Waffle Edinburgh, part of the St James Quarter restaurant's waffle week menu. | National World

For the pudding, I chose an old favourite from my childhood - a knickerbocker glory - albeit it with a waffle twist. This filling pudding is served with millionaire's shortbread, vanilla ice cream, whipped cream, dark chocolate and buttermilk waffle squares. Although I had to take a breather halfway through this tasty treat, I managed to devour the entire pudding, much to my surprise!

All in all the waffle week menu at Edinburgh's Duck & Waffle by the restaurant's executive chef Lucia Greguosova is well worth a try, but please don't wear tight-fitting clothes when you try to eat what I had!

Watch the above video to see how I got on with Duck & Waffle's waffle week menu.