Original Pancake House
www.originalpancakehouse.com
3/10
Reminder: You must take the responsibility of being vigilant by always reconfirming the GF status of a menu item and addressing cross-contamination issues each and every time.
Only some of the Original Pancake House restaurants serve gluten free pancakes. So far, the only ones known in San Diego County that are serving them are in Poway and Temecula. Please Contact Us if you know of another that is serving them in San Diego.
The following was emailed on 3/10/10 from Ann and Jon Liss, Elizabeth Highet, The OPH Franchising Inc., oph@teleport.com, 503-246-4955:
"The Poway location is the only one I know of in SD area serving the
GF pancakes. I have not heard of GF waffles being offered. We don't
put it on the web since it is only served at about 1/2 the locations.
For what it is worth, here is our stock GF reply.
"We have asked each franchisee to consider offering gluten free
pancakes. Once they are making the basic buttermilk style cake it is
usual for them to serve the related cakes with additions such as
coconut, pecan, blueberry, bacon, etc. We are not requiring they
serve them in part because we cannot require or enforce the use of
separate grills, spats, towels etc. for those sufferers who require or
expect complete certainty as to no cross contamination. We have
franchisees who have lost family members to celiac disease, and hope
that our attempt to provide GF options without separate grills, etc.
will be of benefit to some sufferers.
I hope that you will ask your local OPH, by call or visit, if
they are offering GF cakes, and prompt them to try if they a re not
doing so."
Sandra 3/10
"I have eaten the GF pancakes at the Poway location a handful of times. They are really good! However, I need to warn others that all of their pancakes are made with peanut oil. I think they use peanut oil for anything they need to grill or fry. I asked if they could use an alternative oil for those of us with nut allergies and the response was "no". I just happen to be looking at their online menu before phoning in an order and saw it listed online. But I have not seen it listed in-store. Thankfully my daughter didn't have a really bad reaction from it . . . So for us, we will no longer be able to enjoy their GF pancakes. But they are very tasty! Especially with bluberries in them :).
Karen J., 5/08
"We went to the Original Pancake House in Poway today (5/18/08) and my son (age 15) absolutely loved the GF pancakes and waffles! Yes, he ordered both!! You can order most of the pancake varieties as well, however not the chocolate or pumpkin filled. It was a great day for him."
Jeff Carpenter to SD ROCK group, 5/08
"By the way, the Poway Original Pancake House is now serving GF pancakes. Unfortunately, they are not the best. My daughter tried them a couple of weeks ago and was disappointed.".
The following comment is from a poster in San Jose, but some of the information may be helpful here as well.
"We enjoyed g-f blueberry pancakes (with blueberry compote and whipped
cream) at the Almaden Road, San Jose location on Sunday. It felt great
eating out with my family on a Sunday morning! I also talked with the owner
about other breakfast items celiacs could order.
She said that they could also cook eggs on a clean grill; they could
take the plain sausage (before they add their seasonings which
contain flour) straight from the package and cook it on a clean grill
with some salt and pepper; and could also cook plain potatoes (before
they add their seasonings which contain flour) on a clean grill with
salt and pepper.
Since they make their own syrup in-house, she has
called and left a message with the manufacturer of the flavoring they
use for their syrup and will let me know if it contains any gluten.
If nothing else, if you order plain g-f pancakes, you can always
bring your own syrup. If you like whipped cream on pancakes, be sure
to ask for it because it usually does not come on their pancakes." Poster to Listsev, 7/08
Poway
14905 Pomerado Road 92064
858-679-0186
Temecula
41377 Margarita Road 92591
951-296-9016
