Original Pancake House

Service is great, pancakes are good, but the Huevos Rancheros was disgusting. Absolutely swimming in grease. I’ll be back, but I’ll avoid this mess.

Visited on Mother’s Day, quite crowded. We were told about 20 minute wait. I’d say it was no more than 10 minutes. Excellent service by Jeff. I had Egg Burrito, hash browns and fresh squeezed OJ. EXCELLENT!!!

Great place My children ordered pancakes. My son got pancakes with chocolate, banana and blueberries. It was so good! My daughter got the Apple Baby. It tasted just like apple pie! But, my wife and I weren’t thrilled with our omelettes. Hers was too watery and I just didn’t like the taste. My favorite dish out of all the things we ordered was the Apple Baby. It was HUGE! It was supposed to be smaller than the apple pancake. I don’t want to know how many calories are in either of them Besides the omelettes, this place is great!

Love this place! Awesome eggs, wife loves the gluten free menu. All so good. WHY CANT THEY OPEN UP IN TAMPA!!!
Beats IHOP by far!

Best breakfast for the price. If you want great service, ask for Andrew! Our food is always brought out correctly and fast and it’s a huge amount of food for the cost.

Great place. The service is efficient and friendly, with a sense of attentiveness that makes you feel like they are glad you are there.
From the fresh squeezed orange juice made from a really cool machine, to the wide range of pancakes, waffles and omelets, this place can’t be beat. I was there with a party of 10, and we covered the menu. The greatest positive surprise was the wide range of gluten free pancakes and waffles that tasted fantastic.
This is a great place. I wish they had one near my home.

If you want a pretty quick and good weekend brunch, this is a great spot. This is the kind of breakfast you used to have at a diner when you were growing up.
This particular location has pretty great parking, though usually infested with durkeys. Yeah, those weird duck turkey hybrid things. Anyways, part of the reason they have such a great lot is because this place gets super packed on the weekends, especially Sunday around noon. If you get there a little bit earlier or later you’re usually OK. They do handle the line pretty well, even when the wait gets up to around 30 minutes.
Inside, this is EXACTLY what you’d expect from a Florida diner, complete with neon signage. Seating is both booth and tables. One cool thing is the fresh orange juicer, which you can see from the floor. Side note, I recommend the orange juice here. Much better than most places.
There’s a large variety of typical fare for breakfast. You can check the menu for complete details, but suffice to say the usual assortment of eggs, breakfast meat, pancakes, etc. are available. However, there is one dish that stands above the rest: the dutch apple. This is basically an inside out apple pie. It is also about the SIZE of an apple pie, and takes them about 20 – 30 mins to make. If you eat this thing in one sitting, my condolences to your pancreas. That being said, it also tastes really good. My one complaint is the pancakes in the center can be a little hard because of the baking process, but the trade off is well worth it. That much apple cinnamon and sugary goodness can’t go wrong.
Thankfully they know you can’t finish it and are pretty quick to bring a box to wrap it up for later. With the pretty reasonable pricing here, it can definitely be a good option. Give it a try!

Breakfast here never disappoints, specially the crepes topped with fruit, the waffles and the pancakes! Oh my! I’ll need to run 2 extra miles today! Lol :-)

I hadn’t been here in awhile because as I always remember the service feels pressured to get you out of there and at the same time food is always slow to arrive. I will say their food is pretty good but be prepared to wait in an hour line to get a seat on any weekend day.
I am writing a one star review based on my last experience there. In their menu it early states that there is a $ 1.19 up charge on egg whites. When I asked for them they told me it was a $ 3.00 charge. First off that is ridiculous to add about 50% of the entrée price to the cost for egg whites. Their excuse was there was a sign upfront explaining the «egg white shortage», which isn’t technically true there is a general egg shortage and as such shouldn’t the price of everything go up a little bit? The real problem was in he attitude of the female manager on duty, who instead of being sympathetic to the misperceptions that they create from the price on the menu was rather hostile and defensive. Any manager worth their salt would have said I am sorry here is the reason for it, blah, blah, blah and most would have said I’ll just let you have it at this price this time. In the very least a sympathetic attitude and a kind assertion of the new policy would have kept me from leaving.

Sunday breakfast was jam packed this morning at 9:00am. Every table was occupied when I arrived but I was seated pretty fast at small table in the front. About a 3 minute wait time. My server was named Gene and he was amazing. I didn’t think he could keep up with the demand as the place was so busy. He proved me wrong. Gene is a true professional and an asset to the team, he kept coffee, water & napkins refills coming to the table without having to ask for them. Great job. This is what service is all about. My breakfast selection looked amazing, and even tasted better. I ordered the French Crepes– Three delicate crepes filled with strawberry preserves, topped with hot tropical syrup and lightly dusted with powdered sugar. Too good. Fresh squeezed orange juice and great tasting coffee with real cream. Another successful visit. Thanks again.

I always make sure to have breakfast here when I am in the Fort Lauderdale area. Its the go to spot for me. The food is great and it has a real family atmosphere to it. If you go here you wont regret it.

I get a kick out of going to places that have «original» or «world famous» in their names. It’s like I’m heading there with the intention of uncovering the truth and debunking them shamelessly. Nah, not really. But, I am fascinated with the fuss in their names.
I’m not here to debunk, I came for greasy spoon food and that’s what I got. Typical diner fare, cheeky service and good coffee. That’s all I really wanted.
Now, about the «original» part. Places like this are a dime a dozen but the food was good, came out fast and with no complaints. If it’s the noun definition of original, I can put my stamp of approval. Nothing fancy but a good model for others to copy.

It seems like the place to be! The flood came out quick, was delicious and filling. The service was perfect. Our server was sweet, always smiling, and made us feel very comfortable. If I lived in the are, this would be a weekly treat

I wanted to try this place as I like to try different restaurants when I travel.
Prices are reasonable, service is ok, food is not the best. The menu has plenty to choose from if you are in the mood for breakfast or lunch and it won’t break the bank.
As the name bodes, the pancakes are really good. Nice size and flavorful. I can’t say the same for the French toast nor the egg beater tasting eggs for that matter.
I have honestly had much better food at Waffle House, Denny’s and Ihop.
My server checked in on us twice the entire time, and she didn’t have the best table side manner. If I eat here again it would be pancakes to go.

Think of this as a super Denny’s… An upscale IHOP. A diner that costs a few dollars more and has a few specialty options to differentiate itself.
The food is, basically, typical diner breakfast food. Ostensibly it’s a pancake specialty restaurant and they do have a menu of specialty pancakes. The pancakes are good, but nothing overly spectacular. The breakfast food is, again, good. Service is usually very good, with only a few minor bad experiences that I attributed to somebody just having an off day.
OHOP, as we have begun calling it, is a nice place to have breakfast. It’s a little more expensive than similar restaurants, and the food is not necessarily superior, but it’s fine. The crowd on Sunday morning can be ridiculous (true of nearly any breakfast restaurant in Lauderdale), so be prepared to hang out and wait if Sunday morning breakfast is your bag. Service also suffers a bit as a result of the rush; not a deal breaker but something to be aware of.
In summation, you can’t go too wrong by having breakfast here. Sure, there are establishments with better food, more ambience, and a more interesting menu, but OHOP has been around for a while and will definitely serve you up a very decent meal. Oh, except the coffee — their coffee is monumentally bad.

Just another breakfast chain let down.
I got an omelette that was blown up like a balloon. I wouldn’t have cared but it melted all the cheese to one corner. I ended up having to pop it open mix it together. Its not THAT big of a deal, but I ordered an omelette…
The syrup was mostly water. All the condiments are put in containers in efforts to save money– which kind of represents the whole place. Seems like they want to charge for everything. Bread was meh, and it didn’t come with potatoes. For the price and quality of the local breakfast spots around here– I would never come back– unless there was a waffle shortage and this was the only place I could order them.

OMG! Pancakes were awesome! You can order any kind of pancakes with any 2 toppings and they serve you 6 – 8 pancakes: I ordered cinnamon apple with pecans, while my partner ordered chocolate chips and bacon (yes, really!)
Coffee fresh but not as fresh as my fresh squeezed OJ! You gotta go there!

Meh. It was breakfast. I had the waffle combo with bacon (that small pile to the right of my waffle) and was surprised it came with such little bacon. The waffle was plain, tasteless but worked for us since we were in a rush and needed a quick bite to eat.
We’ve eaten at The Original Pancake House in Bethesda, MD enough times (5 – 6 times) to know the quality is not on par with the brand we come to know and love. We always admired and loved the freshly squeezed orange juice which has always been superb quality and we found our orange juice here to be freshly squeezed but watered down. Not sure if management or lower quality oranges are to blame but we were very disappointed this morning.
If you need somewhere to eat quickly and don’t mind sacrificing quality, I would advise you to take a stab at eating here. Don’t set your expectations to high or you may be disappointed.

Unique breakfast restaurants seem to be few and far between in the Fort Lauderdale area and so it took some work on Unilocal to find this excellent spot on the near north side of the city.
First and foremost, the service here was really good. I tend to watch for the speed with which the coffee is brought to the table. Here, I was impressed that it was lightning quick… with frequent refills and warm-​ups.
I jumped for OPH’s Huevos Rancheros with my eggs over easy and a side of cakes. This proved to be an excellent, tasty and filling dish smothered with grilled onions, peppers and other goodies.
Bottom Line: Excellent food and service. I will definitely patronize this establishment again.

I’m giving this place Four Stars because I’m only comparing it to the likes of other places that serve or specialize in pancakes, such as IHOP, which generally hits a near rock bottom Two Stars for me.
I usually go here for their Swedish Pancakes which come served with a decent, though out of a can, Swedish imported lingonberry and whipped butter. Though they claim them to be an original Swedish, they’re in fact more crêpe like (can’t tell the difference between them and their offerings of French Crêpe, Danish Cherry Kajafa Crêpe, Continental Crêpe, Mandarin Crêpe, Fruit Crêpe or Tahitian Dream Crêpe) but passible enough. At least they are far better than those offered at any IHOP I have had the misfortune to experience.
I’ve also had their Georgia Pecan Pancakes which with having the pecans toasted were rather good, and I might also recommend their buckwheat as being some of the better I’ve had.
Though the service tends to be somewhat mediocre, the place is spotlessly clean, pleasant and comfortable; far more so than any area Waffle House or IHOP.
If there is any tip I could convey about Original Pancake House is that it is a «pancake house» and, with that being their specialty, one would be well advised to stick with it since that is what they do best.