Food type: Diner/Dive
Category: First timers
Location: Burien, WA
Reason for dining out: Last stop on our anniversary weekend
Bonus features: People watching! Also we were able to share some food with a neighboring table... mostly because the table was that close that they could smell our food an ask what we ordered
Food ordered: Corn Fritters, German pancake, bacon, coffee
Items of inspiration: I need my mom's recipe for the Dutch baby, as she calls them...
Chance of repeat visit: Still looking for that perfect breakfast spot, other than The Original Pancake House.
It's just really not our scene... quite comical actually. I asked the waitress what was popular and she looked at me like I asked if she had a third eye. The descriptions didn't really leave your mouth watering either... the special of the day was the "high fiber banana pancake". And I danced around the creamer bowl for half-and-half as opposed to the "aseptic non dairy creamer". Probably funniest was how, above the typical warning about undercooked eggs/meat contributing to the chance of getting a food born illness, was the disclaimer that "We're sorry that we are no longer allowed to serve our meat rare or medium rare" which just begged the question of "Why no longer??". But we never asked.
Corn fritters and bacon |
The place lost immediate credibility with The Critic when they didn't have chocolate chip pancakes on the menu. Yes, 38 years old and this is important to him. With whipped cream. Just don't give him a marachino cherry nose on a clown face (the rest of the face is ok). But they did have corn fritters, which was ultimately what made him decide we needed to head in this direction. The corn fritters were ok, but a small order would have been more than enough. And they needed honey. We have been conditioned by those nuggets of goodness from the Puyallup Fair. Sadly I'm finding there is nothing like them on the planet. And the German pancake, also fine. I tried mine with some lemon squeezed on it for the first time. They always seem to be served that way and I've never understood why. Now I've tasted it... just still don't understand why. It's a bit like drinking fresh squeezed lemonade on a pancake. My mom always puts strawberries on hers which is DE-LISH!
German Pancake |
Oh the German Pancake! We call them Dutch Babies too. I have a recipe somewhere (it definitely involves a large amount of butter being melted in a pie pan to get things started). I love it with lemon! But I love lemon....
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