Restaurant Review: Where The Pancakes Are. If you love buttermilk pancakes and Dutch babies, you must get along to Flat Iron Square, where these pancakes are. It’s the perfect spot if you’re looking for pancakes in SE1 or breakfast places on Southwark Bridge Road. Read my Where The Pancakes Are review, and you’ll want to book a table to try these yourself.
“Soak up the buzzy atmosphere of Flat Iron Square while you bite into fabulously fluffy buttermilk pancakes topped with sweet or savoury ingredients; it’s a great way to spend an hour!”
Where The Pancakes Are Menu
These pancakes are made using Shipton Mills organic flour and buckwheat flour with high welfare eggs and buttermilk. They have your back if you’d prefer a vegan, dairy-free and wheat-free alternative batter! The maple syrup is 100% pure, so you’re in for a real treat. Homeboy and I have eaten here a few times, and it’s always delicious.
Vegan Breakfast Pancakes With Fried Eggs
If you want something savoury, try the Welsh Rarebit with mature cheddar and grilled spring onions. The 1000 Baby Greens tasted healthy thanks to the abundance of baby green leaves with spring onions, lime-coriander butter, green chilli and cumin. The Breakfast option features a fried egg, Swaledale Butcher’s streaky bacon and sausage, roasted cherry tomatoes, Portobello mushroom and baked beans. The Vegetarian Breakfast alternative substitutes the meat for halloumi and roasted peppers. The Vegan dish is super tasty. Yes, these all come with pancakes and often pure maple syrup.
1000 Baby Greens
If you have a sweet tooth, you really must try the Hummingbird Pancakes, which is a pretty plate of cinnamon-poached pineapple, house cream, lime syrup with zest, pomegranate and toasted coconut; need I say more? The Banana Praline Marshmallow is also a winner with banana, hazelnut sunflower cocoa nib praline and, oddly enough, basil marshmallow. You get to choose chocolate or sea-salted caramel sauce as well. Other sweet pancakes come with English strawberries and forest berries, or you can keep things simple with maple syrup and butter or lemon and sugar.
Hummingbird Pancakes
There are a couple of Dutch Babies, an American interpretation of an old German dish with nothing to do with Holland, as the Dutch name would imply. It looks somewhat like a Yorkshire pudding and is oven-baked, which takes approximately twenty minutes. Choose between apples, berries and a scoop of vanilla ice cream or the savoury version with dill, rocket, salted yoghurt, smoked paprika-chilli butter and poached egg.
Banana Praline Marshmallow
Drink options include regular coffees, speciality coffees (turmeric and cinnamon latte), teas, hot chocolate, cold-pressed juices, cocktails (lavender fused gin tonic), wines, beers and ciders. To give you an idea of prices, the Savoury Pancakes cost £10.50-13, Sweet Pancakes are £6-9.25, and Dutch Babies are £10-13.
Where The Pancakes Are Interiors
Here is Where You’ll Find The Pancakes!
The restaurant is housed inside the arches at Flat Iron Square in an area called the Southwark Quarter. There are a few tables outside, which is perfect for people-watching. Venture inside, and you will find a calm space clad in blonde wood with a few hanging plants and fantastic lighting. There is a mezzanine area under the arched ceiling. You’ll find the toilets towards the back or use the facilities in Flat Iron.
Where The Pancakes Are Information
Flat Iron Square
To learn more about the restaurant, visit the Where The Pancakes Are Website. The address is Arch 35a, 85a Southwark Bridge Road, London SE1 0NQ. The surrounding area is called Southwark Quarter. Borough or London Bridge are the nearest stations. Please check online for current opening times. I hope you enjoy your pancakes!
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Author: Homegirl London. Photographs: Homegirl London. Thanks: Homeboy, for dining with me.
