Rethinking the Baked Potato

I’ve never offered a baked potato at David Burkes Primehouse because we are not the normal steakhouse, we use a modern approach and honestly who really enjoys a potato thats been baked off earlier in service and sitting in a warming drawer for hours like most restaurants serve.  The skin is never crisp, its more steamed and it never has the delicious seasoned crust it should like when you bake one fresh.  That just isn’t the type of quality I expect to serve in the restaurant and it is nearly impossible to pull off on a regualr basis, so I had to rethink the baked potato and came up with the loaded baked potato waffle.  Its a waffle that is made out of baked potatoes, topped with crispy bacon, melted cheddar cheese, scallions and whipped creme fraiche and finished at the table with a drizzle of  butter syrup.