Pancakes, Pancakes!

We have a tradition. For the first snow of the year, we go out to eat pancakes (5%! 5%! Although, by the way we've been out and about lately, it's more like 10%.) Sometimes (like this year) it's hard to get out for pancakes on the exact day of the first snowfall due to scheduling conflicts (i.e. Vern has to work). So, we give ourselves a week or so to get it in.

When we lived in Minnesota, we always went to this restaurant called Al's Breakfast in Minneapolis for the first snow. Al's Breakfast is probably, quite literally, the tiniest restaurant in the entire world. You cram in with a bunch of other people and wait to get seated on one of the 15 (or so) stools by the counter. And there is always a line. But it is so extremely awesome. Their blueberry walnut pancakes are the absolute best things in the entire world.

Since we're living outside of Denver this year, I googled "Best Pancakes in Denver" and came up with a restaurant called Toast. They have a wide selection of intriguing specialty pancakes.

Vernon and Ocean each got the Strawberry Banana Cheesecake Pancakes:

I opted for the Carrot Cake Pancakes:

And Ezra got the Lemon Blueberry Pancakes (and didn't wait for me to get a picture taken before he started smearing his whipped cream around):

And these all look well and good, but they were definitely no match for the Blueberry Walnut Pancakes (Wally Blues) from Al's Breakfast.

By a long shot.

And that's not really saying anything against the pancakes at Toast, it's just saying that the ones at Al's Breakfast are far superior to anything and are, therefore, really, really hard to compete with.