paddington house of pancakes, city square.
haven't actually really been to city square mall before. we were hunting down some food for dinner after the gym. after doing a bit of exploring, chanced upon the restaurant, which looked promising. it was a sunday night, and the place was pretty packed. we just barely got seats, and pretty crap ones at that.
the menu was HUGE. i've never seen so many varieties of pancakes all jammed into one menu before. both savoury and sweet options were available for each type of pancake. there were so many choices (crepes, galettes, pannekoeks, pancakes etc.) that we were stumped. we ended up flipping through the menu for at least ten minutes (doesn't help that both of us are equally indecisive...)
ended up ordering the nice crepe ($14) and classic buckleberry ($13) as our mains. the food came after what seemed like quite a long wait (or maybe we were just hungry and impatient).
the nice crepe was generous with the chicken filling- looked like an entire piece of boneless chicken thigh. it also came filled with prawns, ham and cheese, with a mushroom cream sauce on the side. while the filling was tasty on its own, the crepe itself was a letdown. it was bland and limp. i gave up after a while and ended up just eating the filling on its own.
the classic buckleberry fared better. it came with fluffy blueberry pancakes, omelette and ham, with maple syrup served on the side. the blueberry pancakes were absolutely the star. we were pleasantly surprised to find that it even had cream cheese filling in the centre.
being greedy, of course we got dessert. just from glancing at the menu, we were tempted by the coconut and peach pancake stack ($12). because... coconut! the pancakes had the fragrance of the grated coconut, and were fluffy, just like the blueberry ones. they certainly do their namesake justice.
since we're going to be at city square every week now, it's highly likely that we'll be back to try their other stuff. just not the crepes. we had food envy spying on other tables' food, so that in itself is good motivation to return.
paddington house of pancakes
#02-35/36 city square mall
