LIZ SAYS: Spending my birthday week end in Amsterdam was a no brainer. Amsterdam is in its first brush of autumn. The weather is windy and wet, anything you get from combining incoming weather from the sea and the inevitability of winter.
What I didn’t expect is that it would be so hard to find a decent piece of chocolate cake this time of year.
We did have the pancakes of childhood dreams in a dungeon of a restaurant. They make giant dutch pancakes that taste of the flame. The edges are a translucent and crepe thin, the center, a light slightly eggy bread punctuated by tangy, slightly crunchy, green apples and salty, chewy bacon.
through the dungeon
the light in the back of the photo is the front door!
Every time I go there, I am not the only one taking a picture of my food. The Pancake Bakery makes combos with pancakes, that are, utterly incomprehensible to me, but clearly, many international visitors find some combo that works for them.
The guys next to us,see them above, ordered a pancake with cheese, tomato and mushroom pancake and some sort of ice cream sundae with 4 towers of whipped cream pancake. Unless you tell them to, the default setting for Dutch service is Bring Everything At Once.
So, the guys eyes exploded when they saw the two cartoon sized pancakes
coming at them with bubbling cheese and cups of whipped cream. Each guy posed by the 18 inch pizza sized flapjack, with a fork and a smile.
When the weather is inclimate, its indoors or no pancakes for me. So, I grit my teeth as the teen tells us to follow her, and we step down into the below street level restaurant with, two, as it turns out, windows. We walked through the pancake den past tables of greedy little fingers pawing over and plowing into their promised treats.
We were led past the entire airless middle of the tunnel to the only other window in the place. It is frosted and partially blocked by the plastic soda crates but the sun forced its way through the diamond shaped holes in the carriers.
As we ate, the rain whipped past. By the time we emerged, the sun was out again.
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