Food Friday: Salt and Straw and Waffle Cones

One of our stops on our trip to downtown Portland was a place Sister J really wanted to show us.  It is called Salt and Straw.  It is an ice cream place.  It has many unusual flavors of ice cream.  In May they had lots of floral flavors.  They allow you up to six sample spoons full.  I tried the Rhubarb Crumble and the Lavender Honey.  A big thumbs up on the Rhubarb Crumble.  Thumbs way down on the Lavender Honey.  Yucky!  Dear One and I settled on safe chocolate choices.  He got a two-scoop cone; I got one scoop. It was plenty.  It was also plenty of moolah!



Going into the store after an almost one hour wait in line(!!!!!) I planned on getting my ice cream in a "bowl"--actually a paper cup.  However, when we got in there, still waiting in line, I watched a young man make the waffle cones.  There were four waffle irons that he kept going.  Very impressive.  That changed my mind: a freshly-made waffle cone did not seem something to miss.

This was the line...across the front of the building and all the way down the other side, plus all the way down the inside of the building.  Fortunately there were some nice benches to sit on outside while waiting.

 This is the waffle-cone-making station.  Bad picture as you cannot see the waffle cookers but..

This was my cone with one bite taken out of the ice cream.  The ice cream scoop is about the size of a small tennis ball.  It was $5.10 plus $1.00 for the cone.  Very tasty.