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| - Pamela's has been well covered by other Yelpers so I'll keep my review brief.
This place hits all of the right classic diner notes and then some: it's comfortable, friendly, full of locals, and awash in vintage Pittsburgh centric Americana but most importantly, the food is awesome. Well, I should qualify that, I can at least say the pancakes are awesome, because that's all that I tried and frankly that's all I need to try as I have a deep abiding love for all types of fried breakfast cakes and can rarely resist the urge to order them when dining out in the morning (and as a side note I am frankly waiting for the hipster restaurateur set to open a place where I can have a late-night short stack in my neck of the woods).
The pancakes, or hotcakes as they are called, are basically large crispy-edged crepes that are fried in what must be a mountain of butter. You can order straight-ahead versions of the hotcakes or signature ones that come stuffed with things like banana and chocolate, or fruit and sour cream. My wife and I got two orders of the hotcakes: one plain and one with strawberries and sour cream inside and I have to say that despite how strange the latter one sounds it was delicious, and perhaps more importantly, the sour cream counters the sweetness of the dish which means that you don't hit "the wall" so early on with them, which if you are in a gluttonous kind of mood is a good thing.
The best part is that everything is entirely reasonable - the pancakes are like $6-$8 and are enough food to allow you to skip lunch.
Go check this place out, and come hungry.
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