By Gretchen Webster
WESTPORT — There has not been a pancake restaurant in Westport for a few years.
However that flapjack void has flipped.
The Authentic Pancake Home restaurant opened Wednesday at 43 Foremost St., off Parker Harding Plaza, within the area beforehand occupied by Boca Mediterranean restaurant.
“Contemporary” is the phrase of the day on the Authentic Pancake Home, with a menu featuring a wide variety of pancakes, waffles and crepes comprised of complete components ready day by day, in accordance with its web site.
Freshly made pancakes, served with eggs, will be loved with heat syrups made in-house, starting from the normal maple syrup to blueberry, apple, strawberry and a tropical syrup combining orange and lemon.
Orange juice is at all times recent squeezed to order, in accordance with Angela Marple, East Coast regional director for the Authentic Pancake Home.
However there’s extra to the Authentic Pancake Home than pancakes.
The restaurant additionally presents omelettes, crepes, “Benedicts” (eggs Benedict in three totally different variations), waffles in many sorts, and meat-and-egg dishes similar to nation fried steak, bacon and eggs and, in fact, conventional corned beef hash and eggs.
The menu additionally consists of lighter entrees in smaller parts than common servings, Marple stated, and the whole lot is on the market for take-out and supply.
The enterprise, established in 1953 in Portland, Ore., now owns about 30 eating places, with most of them on the West Coast. An Authentic Pancake Home was opened in White Plains, N.Y., three years in the past, and the Westport restaurant is the second within the Northeast and the one one in Connecticut.
Marple helped select the Westport location, she stated. “We actually favored the group.”
Additionally interesting was the multi-level location at Parker Harding, the place the restaurant’s home windows supply diners a “stunning view” of the Saugatuck River, she stated.
Like many different companies, the pandemic stalled the corporate’s plans to open the Westport restaurant. However with the assistance of a number of West Coast managers from the state of Washington, the place most of the firm’s eating places are positioned, the native restaurant’s “smooth” opening befell Wednesday.
Marple invitations space residents to return in and pattern what the restaurant is legendary for — pancakes and different breakfast delights, “made with old style recipes which have been handed down for generations.”
The Original Pancake House, 43 Foremost St. off Parker Harding Plaza, is open from 7 a.m. to three p.m. day by day. Telephone: 203-635-6233.
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Freelance author Gretchen Webster, a Fairfield County journalist and journalism instructor for a few years, was editor of the Fairfield Minuteman newspaper for 10 years and at present teaches journalism at Southern Connecticut State College.
