During last Sunday's trip to The Original Pancake House (OPH), I learned three things:
1. Designer Girlfriend, our most frequent dining buddy, has never been to OPH.
2. Agent Orange had horrible service here three straight times and now refuses to go back (we've had bad service here absolutely never, so it must be Agent Orange with the problem. Just kidding, Agent O!).
3. If I send a text message to 10 people with a picture of my bacon waffle, twice as many of them will answer as the time I texted the same 10 people that we closed on our new house.
We've written about this place before. It's the only chain restaurant where I will choose to have breakfast.
It's that good.
Actual started out with some coffee. I think this was her second cup. At OPH, they don't mess around with any of the ingredients. When you ask for cream, you will get little cute pitcher-ettes of straight up heavy whipping cream. Wahahahaha!
My personal dish was the Eggs Michael. Take a split English muffin. Then add two sausage patties (these are hand formed from ground sausage, which I'm guessing is made with a proprietary recipe since I've tried just about every type and brand of breakfast sausage and it never tastes this good, with the exception of Neese's). Then add two perfectly poached eggs. Then add sherry mushroom gravy. The combination is seriously good.
Actual went for the Dutch Baby. You know this is serious breakfast business when they bring out what I call the Dutch Baby accessory pack.
The Dutch Baby is one of their signature items. It's a giant puffed pancake. The taste and texture is pretty indescribable... you're just going to have to get one for yourself.
This is Actual's Dutch Baby after proper application of lemon juice and butter. OH YEAH.
More for takeout purposes, I got a bacon waffle. Just like it sounds. A bacon made from batter with bacon bits in it, then covered with more bacon. This is probably enough bacon and carbs for two or three people. Or one Yod.
After all this, Actual felt the need to order something healthy, and out came their fresh fruit bowl. Now, unlike other, crappier places, the fresh fruit bowl here at OPH costs real money ($4) and contains real fresh fruit. Doesn't it look good?
Hungry? There's probably one near you! Check out http://www.originalpancakehouse.com/
