When the considered really scrumptious pancakes bubbles up, numerous journeys and experiences flood my thoughts and activate my starvation receptors.
I’m transported again aboard the Amtrak booze prepare heading to San Diego for a Chargers recreation, the place I’ve to find time for Richard Walker’s Pancake House. Their famed, typically nonetheless scorching and flaky, gigantic baked apple pancake is the embodiment of flapjack largesse.
There’s the homespun goodness of a candy cream pancake volcano on the Black Bear Diner, a typical hang-out once I go to household within the Inland Empire. And are you able to go to The Grove for breakfast with out making an attempt Du-Par’s heavenly and buttery pancakes?
Pancakes personal a particular place in lots of our hearts, partly as a result of they’re comforting, filling and customizable.
Food author Khushbu Shah created a listing of 11 pancake spots all through Los Angeles that features classics and a few new spots.
We’ll dip into that grouping and pull out some favorites the place new recollections could be created.
Breakfast by Salt’s Cure (Santa Monica)
The oatmeal griddle desserts from Breakfast by Salt’s Cure.
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I virtually hesitate to name these pancakes, and actually, the official title on the menu is “Oatmeal Griddle Cakes.”
Made from a base of oat flour and cinnamon sugar, these thin-yet-hearty griddle desserts style like a deeply gooey, barely underbaked oatmeal cookie. There is completely no maple syrup or syrup of any sort accessible, however you received’t want any if you’re cautious to get the scoops of cinnamon molasses butter into each nook and cranny.
Café Telegrama (Hollywood)
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What units the pancakes at Café Telegrama aside from the remainder of the pancakes in Los Angeles are their iconic crispy edges.
Perfectly caramelized, they’re the results of cooking the pancakes for a minimum of seven minutes in a beneficiant pool of nutty brown butter. The edges are in sharp distinction to the remainder of the pancake, which is kind of tender because of the ricotta within the batter.
They arrive stacked two to a plate, swimming in maple syrup, and topped with a beneficiant quantity of house-made blueberry compote.
The Griddle Cafe (Hollywood Hills West)
Bigger isn’t at all times higher, however it’s not possible to not be delighted by the really large, dinner plate-sized pancakes that present up both two or three to a stack at this legendary Sunset Boulevard breakfast spot.
While the traditional buttermilk pancakes are stable, this isn’t the place to carry again — you would possibly as properly actually go for it with one of many diner’s over-the-top novelty choices.
The finest?
Either the Golden Ticket, pancakes filled with brown sugar-baked bananas, caramel, walnuts and streusel; or the Black Magic, a stack of pancakes brimming with crispy but delicate crushed Oreo cookies and a mountain of whipped cream. Just be able to nap afterward.
Yang’s Kitchen (Alhambra)
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It’s price braving the weekend brunch traces at this beloved Alhambra establishment for the enormous cornmeal pancakes.
The group at Yang’s whips collectively cornmeal from Grist & Toll with mochiko rice flour from Koda Farms to create a pancake that’s gently chewy with deep savory notes from the cornmeal.
There is not any maple syrup: Instead, they arrive topped with contemporary whipped cream, seasonal fruit and condensed milk for drizzling. They may not be conventional by any means, however it’s at all times price ordering a stack for the desk.
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