This popular neighborhood spot more known for its dinner service also serves awesome whole-grain pancakes.

Their extensive and offbeat pancake menu is well known and loved but the Pink Lady is a particular favorite: raspberries and macadamia nuts mixed into buttermilk pancakes topped with raspberry sauce and whipped cream.

IHOP's got nothing on the Griddle Cafe. Generous portions and sugary sweet selection of breakfast goodies make the usually long wait for a table worthwhile. The kitchen should perhaps leave waffles to The Waffle, but the pancakes and the French toast are unsurpassed. Standouts include the "Saturday Morning Fever," which mixes Bailey's and Kahlua into the buttermilk pancake batter, and the "Peanut Bubba" crunchy French toast. TIP: Free refills on pitchers of mimosas!

Rustic Canyon owner Josh Loeb and pastry chef Zoe Nathan opened their new Santa Monica bakery, Huckleberry, in mid-February 2009. Homemade artisan breads, morning pastries, breakfast items, soups, salads, sandwiches, rotisserie chickens and deck oven flatbread pizza. On Saturday and Sunday, they make a mean pancake.

This upscale Echo Park restaurant recently started offering all-you-can-eat pancakes for $6 on weekends.

Drive by any weekend morning and you'll see knots of people populating the sidewalk outside of Maxwell's Cafe. Put simply, it's that place in this neighborhood where you go for a slightly refined brunch or breakfast. Maxwell's is known best for two things: its thick, delicious bacon and its rather indelicately-named garbage omelet (consisting of egg, ham, spinach, mushroom, cheddar cheese, onions and tomato smothered in a sort of ranchero sauce). But their pancakes are also not to be missed.

[Additional locations in Anaheim, Orange, Temecula, Yorba Linda and Aliso Viejo.] The Original Pancake House rises above the competition because of its specially formulated waffle batter. Made with carefully separated egg whites and yolks, Bacardi white rum and Red Star yeast, among other things, the batter is whipped until it's thoroughly aerated, resulting in a sensuous crunch to every bite. This is a crisp, eggy Belgian waffle served golden brown, a perfect breakfast best eaten plain. Overloading it with berry toppings would be like putting ice in Champagne.

Inconspicuous but often mobbed for its old-fashioned coffee shop food; opened in 1958. With it's narrow booths and vinyl seating, Rae's is a classic low-rent diner known mostly for its breakfast fare. You can get the same eggs, waffles, pancakes and potatoes you'd get at most other diners in West L.A. only at Rae's, the food will be noticeably cheaper. Cash only.

This coffee-shop-plus is one of the most enduring spots in West Hollywood. Pancakes, country fried steak and eggs, Monte Cristo sandwiches... these are the kind of dishes Silver Spoon specializes in.

Known for their thick-cut bacon, Square One also make mouthwatering pancakes served with bacon-infused caramel sauce.

Naturally Uncle Bill's has multigrain pancakes -- and virtually every other kind of pancake ever invented. His hefty griddle cakes are served with all the butter and boysenberry and/or maple-flavored syrup you can eat. Real maple syrup is $1 extra. Or try a pancake sandwich. The basic pancake sandwich consists of two buttermilk pancakes, two eggs and bacon or sausage (link or patty). For a dollar more, you can substitute macadamia, blueberry, strawberry, chocolate chip, buckwheat, multigrain, cinnamon apple or pineapple pancakes, although the friendly host cautions that pineapple pancakes may not be the most delicious pairing with eggs.