Nick's Original House of Pancakes home to delicious breakfast, lunch

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• Michigan’s Best Local Eats: Family recipe guides Nick’s Original House of Pancakes’ from-scratch meals
• CHOOSE TOASTED RAVIOLI, HAMBURGER, CHEESEBURGER, HOT DOG, OR GRILLED CHEESE
• Nick's Original House of Pancakes home to delicious breakfast, lunch
• But for now, not so many at a time.
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Food remains mediocre and service is pretty poor. “Obviously, pancakes are the highlight,” Panos said. The batter recipe, a close-kept secret, was created by his aunt, also a local restaurant owner.

Michigan’s Best Local Eats: Family recipe guides Nick’s Original House of Pancakes’ from-scratch meals

The menu for Nick's Original House Of Pancakes may have changed since the last user update. Sirved does not guarantee prices or the availability of menu items. Customers are free to download these images, but not use these digital files (watermarked by the Sirved logo) for any commercial purpose, without prior written permission of Sirved. The breakfasts served near the ann arbor/ypsi border are worth the drive along washtenaw and carpenter are worth the drive. Nick’s clearly was overwhelmed by the customer turnout on our first weekend visit, and we had to wait a long time for our food.

CHOOSE TOASTED RAVIOLI, HAMBURGER, CHEESEBURGER, HOT DOG, OR GRILLED CHEESE

” and maintained that level of enthusiasm throughout our meal. We were lucky to have him on both of our visits, and his congenial demeanor made the entire dining experience extremely pleasant. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Advance Local. “To this day, I cannot believe how lucky I am," Panos says. "I've really been blessed." In all, Panos appears to have powered through the crisis that has closed numerous Ann Arbor restaurants, as well as hundreds around the United States.

Nick's Original House of Pancakes home to delicious breakfast, lunch

He was told he'd be seated next and instead got beligerent with management and was finally told to leave by one of the regular customers after swearing at the manager. Aside of that entertainment the food was pretty good and the staff was friendly and attentive. Nick Panos is a self-described “restaurant brat.” His mother owns The Village Kitchen, while his aunt runs The Broken Egg and he’s been eager to open his open breakfast and lunch spot. So he was pleased when a space became available in the Ann Arbor/Saline Road corridor — an area he thinks is clamoring for its own pancake place.

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But for now, not so many at a time.

Many of the breakfast dishes are served with crispy and delicious hash browns, definitely worth ordering. Served with hash browns, bacon strips, sausage links, toast or biscuit. The restaurant uses several thousand eggs per week, and except for scrambled eggs, his cooks crack every egg to order. That was several times the typical three to five percent profit margin that many restaurants earned before the pandemic hit. Nick's Original House Of Pancakes menu has been digitised by Sirved.

Mark's Coney Island has a great breakfast if you can get past the grease and the smoke smell. Panos instills that same friendly spirit in his staff. Our server eagerly greeted us, saying “Welcome to Nick’s!

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Before COVID-19, Panos estimated his annual revenue was between $1.2 million and $1.3 million, with a profit margin of around 15 percent. That’s a huge achievement in the restaurant business, where nine out of 10 places disappear before the end of their first decade. Blueberry pancakes are a popular item at Nick's Original House of Pancakes.

Panos says he’s trying to “work out the kinks” and improve this situation. There were no such issues the second time around, when the place was nearly empty on a weekday morning. Foreground, peanut butter chip pancakes; background, a spinach omelette with hash browns and toast at Nick's. This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. The action you just performed triggered the security solution. There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data.

Other best sellers are two eggs, any style, with breakfast meat, at $8.49, followed by eggs with a choice of pancakes or French toast at $9.09 (meat is $3.99 extra). Now, he estimates his 2020 revenue will come in under $1 million. The second quarter is typically one of Nick’s busiest, thanks to big graduation parties and other family gatherings that fill the restaurants on weekends, so losing that business during shutdown was painful. Bacon was thick and crispy — “the best I’ve ever had,” declared my son.

The owner, Nick Panos, a member of a prominent Ann Arbor restaurant family, thought it was time for a renewal of his breakfast and lunch spot. Nick’s Original House of Pancakes, 3030 Lohr Circle, celebrates its 13th anniversary in December, Panos said. The restaurant focuses on breakfast food, serving up omelets, biscuits and gravy and, of course, pancakes. For now, he’s discontinued the seasonal specials that accompanied an extensive menu of pancakes, omelets, eggs benedict variations, sandwiches and salads. This place gets packed on the weekends, so be willing to wait a few minutes. We were there the day the above incident happened and I can't believe how rude that customer was!

Uses only top quality ingredients to create classic breakfast dishes. Seasonal menus available in addition to year-long menu. The service lacks follow through to serve the customer. Not even if someone else was buying would I ever go back. They might as well put the lease sign in the window to make way for the next business to start at this location. Serving locally-sourced food is important to Panos.