The Original Pancake House

Coffee is reused here from the night before. This is a huge problem. A health hazard. If you go early INSIST on them brewing you FRESH COFFEE. not 50% from yesterday 50% from today.

Gluten free options here! You feel welcome with a food allergy, not like a nuisance. Delicious!!!

I didn’t have high hopes for the Original Pancake House but I was pleasantly surprised. The bacon pancakes were spectacular and I loved the thick, crisp slices of bacon. Be prepared to wait on weekends, however.

So good and the place was petty cool on the inside. Went 2 says in a row while in Pittsburgh. Cornbeef hash was awsome!

Great pancakess — light and fluffy, not too filling. Hubby had strawberry french toast, also delicious. Visiting from Georgia… highly recommend. Found thisnplace and came due to Unilocal reviewers positive comments. Great choice!

After recieving a dirty coffee cup, the owner/​manager gave me defense attitude… like it was my fault. when my food dropped there was a long and big piece of hair in my Dutch baby… again they asked if I want another (I’m thinking No I like foreign hair in my food)…at the end my family finished before I even had my food and I would assume they would want to at the very least pay for my horrible breakfast… The Answer was No! And we don’t care if your a decent customer who comes in a lot… we don’t care if you come back… to the owner or person who called themselves an owner… you suck as a restaraunteur

My friends and family enjoy TOPH very much.
They offer many options on pancakes (my guests ordered the buttermilk and chocolate variety).
I am a sucker for their omelettes. You can go large (6 egg!) if you want. I kept it small — the size of a chipotle burrito with some home fries.
Great Service /​Great food /​Good Price.

I forgot how good The Original Pancake House is. Their breakfast is so delicious! My favorite is the strawberry pancakes which comes with fresh strawberries, whipped cream and house made strawberry syrup. Their omelettes are very good as well. Their portions are huge and prices are good.
Definitely worth eating @ Pancake House.

Went to this place for the first time last weekend. Went at about 11 a.m. and there was about a 20-​minute wait. not too bad. The menu is overwhelmingly huge, but luckily we had already picked out what we wanted while we were waiting for our table.
I’m not a big fan of sweet type of food for breakfast (which is a shame, because they had some amazing-​sounding options), so I got the kielbasa scrambler, and it was VERY good. Good portion, good price, and very tasty.
Boyfriend got the Dutch baby. There is a little bit of an extra wait for that, but it’s worth it. It was amazing! He ate every bite. Apparently, it’s their classic dish.
The place is decorated kind of fancy-​like. But the customers around us seemed kind of… snooty or something. I don’t know. It seemed like a very conservative kind of place, where you might go with the family after church. Which is fine, because it’s all about the food, but this isn’t somewhere I’d go and feel totally comfortable, personally.

Simply elegant for a pancake house. The place sits atop a hill and is decorated and maintained beautifully. We love the original pancake house and it is unfortunate there isn’t one closer than 2 hours from our home. While we were in Pittsburgh we were lucky enough to find this place close to where we stayed. The food, coffee and décor are great! The freshly squeezed OJ is fantastic, from what I was able to enjoy. My one year old Isabella decided she liked it too and frank most of it. :-) This place will not disappoint. This gem in Pittsburgh is simply great! It’s a must! Enjoy!

Decent service and environment, horrible cook. Omelette was atrociously overcooked and would not have been served by anyone who knows what one is supposed to look like. Bacon was also ridiculously overcooked and resembled beef jerky more than anything in consistency and color. Previous experiences here were great, but this one was pathetic. Overall, a massive disappointment.

Chocolate chip pancakes were amazing! No need for syrup.
Bacon pancakes are as expected, a wonderful achievement of the modern culinary movement.
For everyone complaining about the parking lot, grow a set. It’s a hard right turn, get over it.
Service was excellent. Management watched over like a hawk, and greeted all patrons.

This place has some good Pancakes. I like fast breakfast, I.e. Waffle House but you can not compare the both. If you have time this is the place. There should never be a speedy breakfast, an these guys are great with the quality of the food.

Met up with a few out of town friends for brunch at this spot and was pleased with the food. When we got there there was a 20 minute wait, but we may have waited less than 10 minutes before being seated.
I ordered scrambled eggs and sausage patties and a side order of pancakes (be aware that side orders come with 3 pancakes… I would have been content with 1!). I only had one of the pancakes because that’s way too much food for me but I will say the pancake was delish.
I can’t say the same for my husband’s blueberry waffles. Rather than have the blueberries cooked in the waffle batter they were thrown atop of a waffle. While this may not have been a problem if the blueberries were fresh (they weren’t, they were frozen) or in the least bit sweet (they weren’t and barely edible) my husband took off all the blueberries and ate them without it. I get that it’s not blueberry season so there may be an issue with getting fresh blueberries, but tossing inedible (still cold/​partially frozen) blueberries on to an otherwise decent waffle makes it worse.
I would suggest sticking with their pancakes or getting a plain waffle. The eggs and sausage are good, but not sure how those can be messed up!

Pros: food was great, portions were big, staff was very nice, coffee was hot and plentiful :-) I had the banana pancakes with bacon and eggs. My husband had the apple cinnamon pancakes with bacon and eggs. Both dishes were delicious. We didn’t have to wait long for our food either. We both didn’t care for the tropical syrup.
Cons: parking… this was a big one for me. The lot is really small. It is difficult to get in and out of the lot when the restaurant is busy. This might actually prevent me from returning often.
Definitely a place to go but maybe only during less crowded hours.

I’ve been here a handful of times over the span of a few years. They have a huge breakfast menu, and also a lunch menu. The lunch menu is mostly sandwiches and wraps. I love the décor inside and everyone is always friendly. The location is behind Denny’s all the way up on the hill.

The service was absolutely horrible. Our waitress took our drink order twice and still forgot what I was getting. The food was 4 stars but the service was a 2.
This wasn’t the first time I have had bad service. If the bacon wasn’t so thick and good I would never go back.

Gluten-​Free paradise! This is the first GF meal I’ve had with a «bread-​y» component (pancakes) that didn’t make me miss the real thing. First of all they have a pretty good GF selection and most of thier syrups are GF. Second, well thier GF pancakes made me cry. I literally teared up. They were better than the NOT GF kind. Amazing! Third, the waitress we got was extremely knowledgeable about GF and answered several of my questions before I even asked.
Easiest stress-​free Gluten-​Free dining experience I’ve ever had.
Thanks for a wonderful Saturday brunch for the family.

Some of the things I like:
*décor
*prices
*bathrooms are clean
*ample parking
*food:when it’s good, it’s good.
Things I do not like:
*service: awful on several occasions
*food:not always on point

I’ve been wanting to review TOPH for awhile and on my fourth visit I figured it was about time. Hit or miss on other visits, my fourth time was here was the kicker.
First, the place doesn’t look like a pancake house. With a little more wood paneling, this place could be confused with a steak house if you weren’t aware of where you were. Beautiful light fixtures hang from a high ceiling, and high, wood framed archways welcome you into the restaurant. Easy listening music play softly in the background.
I looked over the menu and decided on a short stack of buckwheat pancakes and a cup of coffee. For those of us worried about caloric intake TOPH lists calories for each meal (sans syrup) and a short stack (3) of buckwheat is 560 calories. Pancakes are my comfort food, my indulgent meal.
The cakes were hot off the griddle, steaming and just a little undercooked in the middle which added to their tenderness. The syrup added the sweetness needed and complimented the the buckwheat pancakes to a tee. Did I detect a touch of cinnamon in the syrup or was it in the batter? Who cares, it was delicious. The coffee was nothing special even though the menu exclaims it’s award winning and they sell if on premises for home brewing.
The place is overly noisy, no acoustic absorbing ceiling tiles to keep the customer’s conversations from bouncing off the walls. For convenience, at the bottom of the bill they give a gratuity calculation or 18 or 20%. Way better than Eat N Park, Denny’s and King’s, my only issue is the parking lot, smallish and way undersized for a restaurant this size. Avoid this place on a Sunday morning, as I’m sure it’s packed to the rafters. My bill was 8.56 for three cakes and endless coffee.