Hot Cakes, Griddle Cakes, Flap Jacks. No Matter What You Call Them, We All Love Our Pancakes

Pancakes are also known as Johnny cakes, journey cakes, hot cakes, griddle cakes, silver dollars, flap jacks. No matter what you like to call this breakfast treat, it’s hard to get through a weekend without them.

Variations of the pancake have been around so long no one is sure when it was actually invented. A pancake is such a perfect food, it is universal. Holland has poffertjes, Finland has lettu, India serves up pooda and France serves crepes. In America, we love a heaping stack of hot, homemade pancakes. 

You can find pancakes on menus all along the coast but, as the name suggests, The Pancakery on Highway 98 (in the complex with Sunsations and Mellow Mushroom) serves up gourmet made-to-order ones that would make Mrs. Buttersworth proud. With fun names like Blueberry Hill, Strawberry Fields, The Big Apple, The Red, White and Blue and … the Destinite, ordering these plate-sized pancakes is almost as fun as eating them. 

As if being served homemade pancakes wasn’t heavenly enough, at The Pancakery you can build your own cake. You choose the batter (buttermilk or whole grain), choose add-in ingredients (fresh fruit, pecans — even M&M candies) and your topping (fruit, whipped cream, powdered sugar, chocolate sauce, etc.). 

Hey Pancakery, you had us at whole grain!