Mobile food trailer serving sweet Liege Belgian waffles with various topping options. Find us at local events. Catering available!
Dreamed up by Hyla Kaye-Casabona in 2013 and opened in the spring of 2017, The Plaid Pancake is a mobile food trailer serving sweet & chewy dough based Belgian waffles. Hyla's love for Liege waffles came about during childhood ski trips to Killington, VT. She and her friends would often end their days on the mountain with a warm, sweet waffle drizzled in melted milk chocolate (Hyla switched to snowboarding at the age of 12. This is not relevant to the story whatsoever but hey, why not get to know her a little bit).
Fast forward 20 something years and Hyla found herself enjoying Liege waffles in the mother country itself-Belgium! Several months later she and her then boyfriend (now husband-she married him because he likes waffles too) moved to NYC where she eventually stumbled upon a waffle food truck. She spent one whole day working on one of their trucks, couldn't fit working there into her schedule with her full-time job, continued working retail, moved back home to upstate NY in 2013 after 1 year, worked more retail (and other odd jobs), realized she didn't want to work retail anymore (or said odd jobs), came up with an idea and a name (taken from a Jim Gaffigan joke), decided to buy a food trailer to bring the joy and happiness of Liege waffles to her hometown and then BAM! Her baby was born. Wait a minute, we're missing a few details...
Hyla finally quit working retail in 2015 when she was hired as a pastry cook at a bakeshop in Saratoga Springs, NY (as was mentioned earlier there were several jobs she worked before this, with a few lasting only 1 day & almost none lasting more than a few months. No shame). It was in November of 2015 that she got to work bringing The Plaid Pancake to life. Hyla knew it was no small feat to start a business but holy crap was it (still is) alot of work! She worked around the clock for months on end skipping meals, not sleeping, always researching, reading, writing, you name it (that last bit isn't completely true. Hyla loves sleeping and eating and while she did do a ton of research, reading & writing, it occurred over the course of a year & a half & is continuing on to this very day).
Hyla hopes that patrons of The Plaid Pancake will love Liege waffles as much as she does. Actually, she requires everyone to love them as much as she does because at the age of 25 she developed an egg allergy and can no longer eat her beloved dough waffles. Essentially she plans to live vicariously through everyone that passes through the doors of The Plaid Pancake and bites into the sweet, chewy and warm dough of the Liege waffle (and by passes through the doors we mean orders at the window)
