Dine and Dish: Valhalla in Visalia

VISALIA, Calif. (KFSN) -- Velkommen to Valhalla successful Visalia.

"Valhalla. When radical spot that, what does that mean? It means Viking heaven," Valhalla proprietor Kim Payne says.

You don't person to beryllium a bare Viking to bask the Danish nutrient here.

"Yeah my favourite spot for breakfast. Amazing." lawsuit Angel Felix said.

"A batch of these foods are foods you grew up eating," I asked.

"I did. Yep. My grandma made them. We grew up eating Danish pancakes, aebleskiver."

Fascinating to ticker Payne make the circular aebleskiver. Each pancake shot is cautiously shaped.

"The aebleskivers are truly astonishing with their homemade jam," Payne says.

Payne grew up eating bladed Danish pancakes rolled up.

You tin besides person a much accepted Danish pancake.

"We get this delicious lingonberry jam successful and it comes from Sweden. That's wherever the berries are grown," Payne says.

"This is really a Danish sausage called medisterpolse. The Scandanavians and the particularly the Danes usage allspice and cloves successful their meat," Payne says.

Tourists from Denmark visiting the nationalist parks person been impressed.

"They said it was spot connected similar location truthful that's ever a compliment to me."

A fiery amusement is the rum basal for the bananas foster French toast.

"The foster itself is butter, brownish sweetener and rum. And you tin sensation the rum. It's indescribable. It's conscionable yummy," Payne says.

Oralia Najera tin grip immoderate bid that comes in.

"Orio has been with america for 30 years. 34 years. She is our staple successful the kitchen," Payne says.

"I'm gonna commencement crying. Oh my goodness," Najera says.

She makes tasty chile verde. Her chorizo and ovum comes with potatoes, doorbell capsicum and onion.

"We marque a cilantro creme condiment from scratch that we drizzle crossed the apical that truly benignant of makes it pop."

The Valhalla staff, adjacent the customers here, marque you consciousness astatine home. So overmuch truthful that Perez makes the thrust from Woodlake to devour astatine Valhalla.

"What bash you similar astir this place?" I asked.

"Good food. Period," Perez responsed.

Valhalla serves lone meal 7 a.m. to noon, Tuesday done Saturday.

"My ma and I started the edifice backmost successful 1982. I deliberation 1 of the reasons wherefore we stayed unfastened is our customers admit everything we marque is homemade," Payne says.