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| - Pamela's is a fabulous place to grab breakfast...whether it's early in the morning or wake-me-up-at-the-crack-of-noon o'clock. (Usually for me, it's the latter, because I'm a lazy mofo.)
I came here a few weeks ago when I was home in Pittsburgh for Thanksgiving with my lovely boyfriend, Sean. We called in advance to make sure the place wasn't swamped. Because believe you me, Pamela's has a tendency to get swamped despite turnover being fairly quick among restaurants of its kind. Luckily the woman on the phone said no wait for two, so we walked on over from my doctor's office on Aiken. Upon arrival, we could see that it had become noticeably more busy since our phone call about 10 minutes prior and I was worried there'd be a wait....well...there wasn't a wait at all! It was beauteous!
Our waitress was super sweet and attentive. She immediately took our orders and the food came out in about 5-10mins of time later. Super quick! I had the special strawberry pancakes with sour cream and brown sugar...and don't forget the freshly chopped strawberries! Mmm. The only thing I don't like is their generic watery syrup but I guess you don't really want genuine maple syrup on something as sugary as the special strawberry pancakes. Would be too sugary, most likely! But having that option would be cool for those among us who are syrup junkies, lol. He ordered the "American" French toast since he prefers his F.T. as plain as can be...without all of the raisins and cinnamon and jam. I tried a bite of it and it was pretty good but nothing beats their hotcakes.
Despite going to almost every Pamela's location repeatedly in highschool, I totally forgot that they only accept cash--NO credit cards at all! I had to text my dad who was able to bring me a fist fulla' dollars to pay for our meal. My bad. It's kind of weird that they don't take CC's but I guess they want to keep their prices low as it probably costs them every time they swipe a card. You'd think I'd remember that by now, but I always forget. lol.
Anyway I took Sean here because he's never been to Pittsburgh and I wanted to give them "the experience" by taking him to. as Amy R. put it, a "Pittsburgh staple." We had a great time and left with full--but not exploding--stomachs.
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