cape cod

people who know me know that i am a big fan of the new england area. i went to college in boston (holla at the terriers) and pretty much my obsession stemmed from there. i spend a decent amount of time there, since james is originally from massachusetts, and we typically try to spend long weekends in different parts of new england (most recently this past new year's in manchester vermont- see blog post i can't believe it's maple butter )

we spent memorial day weekend with some friends in cape cod, staying a little cottage in south yarmouth. while most of our meals were spent doing the great american past time of barbecuing, we did venture out to sample some of the local fare. i decided to blog about one particular place, as it definitely made a mark on our visit- in more ways than one.

as with any place that we go visit, the first thing james and i do is scope out some places to eat for breakfast. while doing his search, james found a place right down the block from where we were staying called the the pancake man. the name itself sold me.

it was the first restaurant we ate at when we arrived and we had no idea what we were getting ourselves into. its one of those places where you have foodie ADD- the menu was so extensive that you had no idea what to order. we were a group of four, and what did we do? we ordered everything, like we were a group of ten. james and i particularly like traveling with other people for the mere fact that we can order all the things that we want to sample.

what was on our menu?

peanut butter and chocolate chip pancakes & blueberry pancakes

breakfast nachos (believe me, this picture doesn't do its justice. it should've been called breakfast nachos mountain)

breakfast quesadilla

and this is even missing two of our dishes (mexican omelette and sausage, bacon and eggs).

i almost contemplating calling this blog "holy breakfast nachos" because literally the monstrosity of this dish was unbelievable. and because of its enormity, it was the joke of the whole weekend, about how we would go back and make our friend go eat the breakfast nachos.

besides the level of gluttony this place made us undergo, the food WAS actually really great. the thing that really got me was the peanut butter and chocolate chip pancakes. un-buh-leave-uh-bull. i even went out on the limb to say it was the best pancakes i ever had (dare i say even better than IHOP, and that place is my boy!).

i almost wanted to go back there just for those pancakes. but sometimes, over portioning can be a negative thing, as we didn't want to see any sort of breakfast joint till the end of our trip.

simply put, portions were NOT a problem at this place. and we wonder why there is an ongoing obesity problem in the united states...