Foodie Digest

There’s really no other way to describe it. Big and Small spent many hours of the weekend doing hard physical labor–more than 8 hours each day.  At the end of each day we were starved, but too exhausted to really “fill the gap”. Needless to say, we woke up Monday morning still hungry.

Traffic down the peninsula (and some canceled meetings) presented a breakfast opportunity. Some quick research showed Millbrae Pancake House as a highly recommended spot.

We detour and pull into the parking lot. The PACKED parking lot (at 8 a.m. on a Monday).

It’s definitely a gateway into the past. And we’re clearly in the suburbs. No matter; the pancake house pancakes in many shapes and forms.

Big orders the banana pancakes with a side of sausage, I get the swedish pancakes. The banana pancakes come 5 gigantic pancakes to an order. The bananas are both grilled in with the pancakes and slathered across the top.  The sausage are small links with a flavor much like Jimmie dean.

The swedish pancakes are large, and served 3 to an order. They come sprinkled with powdered sugar and a side of lingonberry butter. (all the reviews said lingonberries but in my opinion, berries are a fruit and butter is butter.

So the good. The portions here definitely fill the gap. To excess. Given that Big is, well, BIG and that he was hungry, it says something that he could only eat half his portion. (self control? restraint? or excessively large portions).

Overall thumbs: sideways.

Food tastiness: Moderate. A pancake is a pancakes. These were a little bit dense but tasty enough. Probably wouldn’t go back for a return trip.

Service rating: Mediocre. We were seated and offered drinks right away. But our drinks were never refilled and we had to wait over 10 minutes to get our check.