heavenly breakfast
January 12, 2010
Place: The Original Pancake House
Location: 1638 Schlosser Street, Fort Lee, NJ 07024
Website: http://www.originalpancakehouse.com/index.html
Yeahh… I go to Jersey sometimes… Maybe pretty often. Anyway, this is one of my favorite places in New Jersey so far. The Original Pancake House! They have several locations all over the country if you check their website. This one is probably the closest Manhattan.
The interior has a cozy diner look that you could imagine being located near a ski resort. You’d be surprised how large this Original Pancake House is when you walk in – it stretches pretty far back.. it’s like an underrated treasure from the outside! We ordered the strawberry buttermilk pancakes with whipped cream on the side, a Santa Fe omelette with whole wheat toast, hash browns, coffee, and fresh squeezed orange juice. They are very generous with portions. The strawberries were fresh and piled on so you can eat a strawberry with almost every bite. The pancakes were perfectly fluffy. The whipped cream was definitely not non-fat but excusable because it was so delicious. Not sure if this is a good thing but you don’t need to use a lot of syrup because everything was so tasty already.
When the omelette first came out I poked at it because I thought it would deflate. They are actually that huge and they are actually baked… to perfection. They didn’t skimp out on its ingredients and the sauce that accompanied the Santa Fe Omelette added a kick with its spicy taste. I wonder how many eggs they use for one omelette. Sounds gluttonous but its enormous portion doesn’t frustrate you because you will enjoy every bite. The hash browns are diced potatoes, not thinly sliced, that are cooked through with the right tenderness.
We left nothing behind. I believe we had food coma for the rest of the day but there were no regrets!
