Original Pancake House

It is always a pleasant surprise when you can’t read a restaurant by it’s façade. This strip mall breakfast spot is pretty nondescript; from the outside you could as easily except to find mattresses lined up inside as opposed to dining tables.
As soon as you get in the door however, the restaurant takes on an slightly warmer atmosphere. The dining space is still pretty much one big open area, which lends itself to being a bit noisy, but the paint colors are warm and welcoming and reminded me a lot of a First Watch.
The menu though is much larger than First Watch. Since pancake is in the name of the place it’s appropriate that there are over 20 varieties on the menu. Additionally there are egg entrees. Today I got to try both as all egg plates come with a side of three pancakes. I ordered the Eggs Benedict. I changed from the Canadian bacon to the regular bacon, which was cooked perfectly and had great flavor! The eggs were poached properly and all combined well with a slightly crunchy English Muffin. A side of red skin potatoes were seasoned well and still had some skin attached which was a nice touch.
For my pancake side I kept it simple with blueberry pancakes. These were served with a side of blueberry syrup. The pancakes were of good texture and weight. I was impressed that the small blueberries were evenly distributed through the entire pancake and did not come out the bottom of the pancake.
I also was impressed with the fresh squeezed OJ. I’d go back here. I’d like some more bacon. And I’d like to be more adventurous and try some other more decadent pancakes.

My husband and I absolutely love the OPH! Fantastic breakfast selections and very well priced for the amount of food you get. Big portions. I tend to order the same things over and over because they’re so darn good but I don’t think there is anything bad on the menu. If your really hungry and don’t mind waiting a few extra minutes on cook time, then I highly suggest you try the «Dutch Baby» a delicious pancake/​crêpe type of morning breakfast goodie. They serve it with lemon, powdered sugar and butter. All three on it are divine. This location is our favorite spot because it’s close to home. We will continue to come here on weekends for as long as we live on Cleveland’s West side! Keep up the great work staff at the OPH!

Even though the posted hours say they are open until 3 p.m., they turned us away at 2 p.m. because they were closing early. I think the food here is good, but this is very poor customer relations. We intentionally come late so it’s less crowded and there isn’t a wait. This is just very annoying.

Not very often that I find myself impressed with a pancake; or an omelet. This place delivered on every aspect of breakfast that I care about. Coffee was brought to me within seconds of seating, the server was nice and very knowledgable of the menu, and the food was excellent.
The omelettes use 6 eggs and come with 3 pancakes, what a deal, could probably cover you for both breakfast and lunch.
Not sure how busy they get seeing as I walked in 3 minutes after they opened, but the staff didn’t seem sluggish and the place is very clean.
Will definitely go again!

We ate here for the first time this morning and really enjoyed it. The french toast was wonderful and the bacon was delicious. Mt husband had a waffle and Canadian bacon and really enjoyed his as well. Our server was friendly, quick and attentive. The atmosphere was pleasant and the restaurant was clean. We will be back for sure.

This place might be the most child-​friendly restaurant I’ve been to. Not only do they have changing tables in both the men’s and women’s restrooms, but they also have stools by the sink so your kid can reach to wash their hands without you trying to hold them. It’s also quite loud, which allows families with loud children to not feel guilty when their kids scream.

I am a very anti-​chain person. I even have an «eat local» bumper sticker. HOWEVER, Original Pancake House is so amazing I just pretend it’s independently owned so that I can permit myself to eat there. So good, great service, big open pretty and well-​lit room without the cold sterile feeling of a chain. Affordable, great go-​to, but there’s often a line.
The bacon, you guys. The bacon.

Let’s start with server, Sara. (Longer brown hair), said she was a server at another restaurant locally!
She is not only sweet, friendly, on top of her game, but spot on with everything! If someone in management does not see this or have been told before, please do! We will ask for her and wait to have her again! You have a hard worker in her!

I’ve always had amazing service here. The omelets are great. The blueberry pancakes are amazing!

Service is terrible! I waited 10 minutes for my good AFTER the rest of my table was eating. The manager did not show any concern or seem to have any sense of urgency in fixing the issues. I will never be returning. Plenty of more options for breakfast in the area with much better service. I wish I could get be this place 0 stars.

Came here with relatives on a Saturday morning. As I open the door, you can sense the hustle and buzz of people coming in and out. This usually makes me excited and tells me, this place must be a local favorite.
As I peruse the menu, I see something called «dutch baby» and decide to try it. It is still a pancake, but it is treated with lemon slices, that you squeeze for the juice and powdered sugar. Like the pics and my review if you like powdered sugar!
It was a unique looking pancake and tasted delicious, something I would order again.

Enjoyed this place a lot! Our server was friendly and provided good tips on what to order. The buttermilk pancakes are very sweet… almost suggary… so I wouldn’t recommend. The Mexican burrito with their special green salsa is one of the best I’ve had in Ohio. Must try!

Took 10 minutes for someone to come to our table. One adult and 3 kids under 10 = $ 50. This is not inexpensive! Service was sssssslowwwwww. Bacon and eggs were good. Not worth the price.

Ate here on a Wednesday morning with two of my kids. We were seated immediately, and our server was prompt and very friendly.
Food was pretty standard, and the pancakes are definitely the star attraction here. I had the corned beef hash, and was warned that the price for eggs would be a dollar more than listed due to the bird flu that is going around. Well, I didn’t get the bird flu, but the corned beef hash was on the dry side.
Not a bad option for breakfast, but not a place you’ll be running back to for another visit.

So the food was AWESOME. I’ll give it that, the staff was seriously creepy. The girl who waited on us clearly had a thing for my boyfriend and it was slightly annoying and she just had a weird blank stare the whole time. The whole staff bussing tables looked like they were on downers. I seriously felt like I was in the twilight zone. After this we go to check out and the young. annoying girl at the front kept asking if I wanted a bag. I said no about 6 times. Then she kept asking if we were taking bacon home? Wtf… no. who cares if we are? I was so turned off by this place because of the weird staff. I’d go back for the food for sure but. maybe carry out if they have this?

Service was amazing! Waitress was very quick with everything. Mexican eggs Benedict were extremely delicious and filling as well. Eggs were poached correctly and not hard boiled throughout. Fresh fruit on pancakes and had 0 complaints from our party.

I pass this place every time I’m in Fairview Park and finally was able to make plans to check it out. Sort of unassuming from the outside (and inside). Just some decorations on the wall, and plenty of seating space.
We went on a Monday morning, and it was pretty empty when we first got there (around 9:30am), which is what we basically expected. However, a half hour later, we were very surprised to see the place completely packed with some people waiting. CLEARLY, this place is THAT good if it’s full on a weekday!
I had a hard time ordering because the menu is HUGE and everything looks delicious! Interestingly enough, I ended up ordering one of the few items that does NOT come with pancakes. They don’t sell them a la cart either, you have to get 3 of them, which kind of stinks, but is understandable. I had the huevos rancheros (beans, with eggs– i got them scrambled and white, their green chili, cheese and avocado). Oh my goodness, was this dish DELISH! I didn’t even touch the tortilla it came with because of how TASTY the dish was and how occupied I was with eating it. Usually, I pour a ton of hot sauce on whatever breakfast egg dish I am eating, but their green chili sauce was so flavorful and had a nice kick to it, that I didn’t need to! The dish came with their home fries and I added cheese and, holy moly, were the potatoes AMAZING. At the beginning of the meal, I said to myself, «I’ll only have a bite or two of the potatoes» to save calories. Yeah, that did not work out as well as I had hoped once I tasted the potatoes. They were basically all gone by the end of the meal.
To drink, I ordered the coffee, and the waitress was pretty good about refilling when it was close to being empty. The service was okay. We did have to flag ours waitress down a few times to get things since she wasn’t coming by often, but overall she seemed friendly, just also seemed a bit inpatient.
As far as pricing goes, it’s decently priced, but every little change. coffee (don’t think plain coffee should cost close to 3 dollars), etc starts tacking on the dollars really fast. And suddenly, your once 10 dollar bill is no longer that low.
Overall, amazing food! and I WILL be back :)

So we came here based on the reviews and were not disappointed. The portions are huge and the pancakes are as good as described on their website. The only thing I will say is their kids menu is very small, only three items to choose from, my son ended up choosing from the regular menu and ordering a half order. The service was excellent, everyone was very friendly. The pancakes with bacon inside were unusual, but very tasty. I would definitely come here again on my next trip to visit family.

After having an embarrassing George Costanza-​esque moment in the parking lot, I was hungry for some food and eager to find some shelter. Enter The Original Pancake House and their sweet, sweet tempting flapjacks. I’m not the biggest pancake person in the world, but this place has many options to appease anyone’s taste-​buds. They offer huge, fresh baked omlettes and french toast in addition to about twenty different varieties of pancakes.
Original Pancake House is, in the most TL;DR language possible, Ihop on steroids. You won’t get flimsy bacon or bland discs of under-​cooked dough here. You will get food that’s seems as if it’s injected with magic bundled with the quickness and variety you’ll see at an Ihop. The bacon is thick and crisp, and the pancakes taste moist and fresh. I’d recommend the pumpkin pancakes because it’s not only the season, but they are actually chocked full of real pumpkin. It’s easy to just dump some McCormick pumpkin spice into pancake mix, but this place uses a real helping of pumpkin, so the pancake comes out as a delicious pie/​pancake hybrid. In addition to the delicious food, the service is prompt and the coffee refills are on point. I wish I lived closer to the area, but I will surely be back.

This is one of my favorite places to grab breakfast or brunch with a certain Westside friend of mine. I found out on our last visit that the omelets (this is the correct spelling, by the way) each have 6 eggs in them.
It sounds weird, but I never knew that I liked pancakes until I had them here a couple years ago. I grew up with the kind of pancakes that you make by adding water to a little tub o’ powder and shaking it vigorously.
I’m not crazy about the crowded waiting area, especially if I get there right after people are leaving church… People are hungry and angry at noon on Sundays!