The Griddle Cafe
Breakfast restaurant · Hollywood Hills West ·
Giant pancakes, hearty scrambles, and bottomless mimosas
Giant pancakes, hearty scrambles, and bottomless mimosas
"On Thursday, October 26, Hollywood’s Griddle Cafe is hosting a fundraiser benefiting the James Beard Award-winning nonprofit Giving Kitchen, with proceeds providing emergency assistance to food service workers; notable partners include chef Nyesha Arrington, actress Jamie Gray Hyder, and chef Andrew Zimmern (who will donate a Zoom cooking class), and the event features favorites from the Griddle’s dinner menu, selections from the 1849 Wine Company, other drinks, a raffle, and a pure disco playlist—tickets are $100." - Mona Holmes
"Little Griddle, for me. I like a little sweet-savory breakfast, so I’ll get their sausage egg biscuit and a chocolate chip pancake and it sets me up nicely for a mid-afternoon nap." - Thom Hilton
"At the Griddle Cafe, a 20-year-old Sunset Boulevard spot between Hollywood and the true Sunset Strip, the food is very much the show: the restaurant is a 100-seat cornucopia of regulars, locals, and tourists who queue on the sidewalk for its giant breakfasts. Ham here comes in only one size—gigantic—and the Poached y Papas Benedict is the best way to enjoy it: two poached eggs in hollandaise sit atop an ice rink–sized slab of seared ham set on four quarters of fried potato skin, with the option to add half an avocado; the result is creamy, salty, and crunchy in all the right spots and stands up well to a hit of hot sauce or sharing at the counter for the ham steak ride of a lifetime." - Farley Elliott
"If your childhood dreams consisted of a constantly replenished stack of pancakes, The Griddle Cafe is probably for you. They serve giant stacks of any kind of pancake you can think of." - team infatuation
"Returning to its Sunset Boulevard home on Saturday, May 14, this most famous breakfast restaurant in Los Angeles is reopening at 7916 Sunset after operating as an itinerant brunch option for much of the past two years; known for long morning lines and car tire-sized pancakes, it's back at its cozy corner and ready to serve customers from the big booths and wide tables inside. Owner Jodi Hortze was forced to take her creations on the road during the displacement, working out of someone else’s kitchen with a more limited menu while still serving hundreds of diners on weekends, and that arrangement ended following a busy Mother's Day brunch so the fan- and tourist-favorite can safely return to its usual address." - Farley Elliott