This trip to the US, being on the road...I drove some 3000 miles (about 4800km) in the 14 days we were there...treking mainly the coastal California cities and the US National Parks of Yosemite, Bryce, Grand Canyon. So it meant having to set aside fine dining, and nicer food, for fast food on the road.
The US highways are literally dotted with many such oasis of food, gas and whatnot. And in many of them, the usual suspects - McDonalds, KFC, Burger King, Denny's but also IHOP.
Easy to find, with their characteristic A frame blue roof...
Interesting and typically American to name your chain of stores International House of Pancakes...when the chain is not quite international (they have outlets only in North America), and their menu is quite complete...a bit like Denny's...all day breakfasts, and other American Diner style meals. But of course, special emphasis on pancakes.
I had earlier been kind of hooked on their pancakes...so in our little party of 3 for breakfast before breaking for Gilroy for some retail therapy, we started with a blueberry pancake stack:
This was superb. The blueberries were fresh berries, but totally immersed in a compote of blueberry jelly-jam. The pancakes were huge, fluffy, buttermilk pancakes, which were embedded with blueberries. Eaten just like that, or if you are decadent, with some whipped cream...oh...delicious! Oh, did I mention blueberries are very healthy? They contain a good dose of antioxidants, and are delicious too.
We also sampled the plain pancakes...just a stack of 3 huge, fluffy.
Breakfast, eating this with either Maple Syrup or Honey is just wonderful. Gives you the energy to bounce off walls for the next 10 hours!
We also decided to add some protein, and went for the American staple big breakfast...
Two eggs, ham, sausage, has browns, bacon...all the grease one can take...and smelled wonderful, tasted great.
IHOP...eat like the Americans...and certainly worth one breakfast when in the USA.
International House of Pancakes (IHOP)
everywhere in the USA
www.ihop.com
4 comments:
that looks like a lovely overdose of blueberries! :)
This introduction to IHOP was a good one. Worthy of the time effort and the money. That breakfast with good friends is a memorable one - just off a main street. The one thing the US cannot seem to get right though is their COFFEE. The pot of coffee is plain AWFUL (everywhere taste the same!). Peter has his theories on this and whatever the reason, just be prepared for terrible coffee when travelling in this continent!
Yup liverpool ! How i wish we can get such blueberries pancake in sg .... haiz ... although sg is a cosmopolitian city, our western food are still not as good as in europe/USA
ah, I miss IHOP! good to see familiar pictures of their awesome pancakes once again.
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