The pancakes, better in height.
In the film premiered at the last Sundance Festival, How It Ends, the protagonist (Zoe Lister-Jones) wakes up on Earth's last day to enjoy one last great pleasure: a tower of pancakes as big as her head. She can hardly be seen on the other side of those fluffy and joyous circles and something like that is what we imagine when we think of celebrating pancake day or pancake day, one of those few international days that really have some history and has been marked on the calendar since the late 1940s.
If last year, we celebrated by touring some of the best in Madrid and later, we became expert pancake makers with chef Pepe Roch's recipe, of the Commercial Cafe, This year we are going all out. We follow the maxim our life guru Fran Lebowitz and we want it all. Because the concept does not exist in our vocabulary “guilty pleasure” (guilty pleasure). “My pleasures are absolutely benign, that is, nobody dies. Nobody is abused. No, I don't feel guilty about having a pleasure." Us neither. So we want pancakes and we want them WITH EVERYTHING.
In Malaga they know how to do it well.
Zenith Brunch & Cocktails (Madrid)
The temple of brunch in Madrid became an instant favorite especially for its pancakes. Nothing subtle. Very plump, fluffy and decorated to adorn your Instagram for breakfast at any time. The most famous in your letter are the Oreos, but in this case we choose a few more gochas (in our opinion): with chicken and bacon, cheddar cheese, fried egg, with special francesinha sauce (the one that bathes one of the most international and tremendous sandwiches in Porto) and chives.
The Breakfast Bar (Barcelona, Madrid)
In Madrid we are very happy since this American-inspired breakfast sanctuary has arrived, without limits. Born in Barcelona, here they give everything that should populate a nice breakfast (or snack): sandwiches, tortillas, French toasts... But today we look at their homemade pancakes. And, specifically, we choose, Abuela Fide: three pancakes with banana, crunchy biscuit and milk cream. Plus your homemade maple syrup. Oh! And they have gluten free options.
Sweet Dreams.
Bastard Coffee & Kitchen (Valencia)
With manhanitta soul and unlimited creativity in pastry making, this Valencian café gives its homemade pancakes a leading role. And for what they call our sweet attention is because, together with those with classic dough and classic toppings (bacon, cream cheese, chocolate, caramel...), they have created some made with matcha tea, that come out with a delicious green color and you can take with bacon or with cream.
Matcha tea: green I love you green.
The Golden Stack (Malaga)
This is another level. A place born and developed from tall pancake towers (and great waffles). The imagination to add toppings does not stop in this Malaga cafe. Each month or season with new contributions to your letter and always the possibility of creating your own. They have them in two heights: three or five pancakes. And the rest is a difficult decision: white chocolate or nutella, M&M's or Snickers... Or, why not, almost natural: butter and syrup.
Mariola's Bakery (Palma de Mallorca)
In this Majorcan cafeteria they have also specialized in American breakfast and snack recipes. Its towers of pancakes are also the central axis of a menu that has invented some sweet pizzas and waffles with ham and melted cheese that melt our dreams. Pancake toppings can also vary by days, by weeks. So it's hard for us to decide between the Oreos, the Kinder, the red velvet...
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