The Original Pancake House

420 S San Antonio Rd, Los Altos
(650) 559-9197

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Fresh Georgia Pecan Pancakes
Chocolate Chip Pancakes
Dutch Baby Pancakes
Kid's French Toast
Sourdough Pancakes
Fresh Fruit Crepe
Mandarin Crepes
Potato Pancakes
Oriental Crepes
Western Omelet

Menu

Breakfast Cereals
Old Fashioned Oatmeal Cereal
Cream of Wheat Cereal

Breakfast Side Dishes
2 Any Style Eggs
Thick Sliced Bacon
4 pieces of premium thick bacon grilled to your request.
Toast with Preserves
Patty Sausage
Canadian Bacon
4 pieces of grilled premium thick Canadian bacon.
Toasted Bagel
Hash Brown Diced Potatoes
Hash Brown Sheered Potatoes
Smoked Ham
Link Sausage
Biscuits and Gravy

Salads
Fruit Salad
Fresh assorted fruits daily.
Chicken Caesar Salad
Hearts of romaine with roasted garlic croutons, parmesan cheese, and creamy Caesar dressing.
House Salad
Romaine lettuce, cucumber, tomato, olive and red onion, served with your choice of dressing.

Omelets
Western Omelet
Our fluffy omelet filled with diced green peppers, onions, pimientos and hickory smoked ham.
Spinach Omelet
Enjoy our fluffy omelet filled with fresh spinach, Jack and cheddar cheese.
Ham Omelet
Our fluffy omelet filled with diced sugar cured hickory smoked ham.
Ham and Cheese Omelet
Our fluffy omelet filled with diced sugar cured hickory smoked ham, cheddar cheese.
Bacon Omelet
Our fluffy omelet filled with aged chopped bacon and cheese.
Bacon and Cheese Omelet
Our fluffy omelet filled with aged chopped bacon.
Spanish Omelet
Direct from Barcelona, omelet espanole. Our fluffy omelet filled with fresh mushrooms and smothered with a spicy, peppery and tangy sauce.
Mushroom Omelet
Our fluffy omelet filled with fresh mushrooms and topped with a rich mushroom sherry sauce.
Plain Omelet
Fresh Vegetarian Omelet
Our fluffy omelet filled with fresh broccoli, fresh tomatoes, fresh mushrooms, onions and diced potatoes.
Cheese Omelet
Our fluffy omelet filled with aged cheddar cheese.
Kosher Salami Omelet
Oven baked.

Pancakes
Apple Pancake
Oven baked with fresh granny smith apples and pure sinkiang cinnamon glaze.
Swedish Pancakes
Authentic lacy Swedish pancakes, served with whipped butter and lingonberries. Cooked with peanut oil.
Clam Pancakes
It is a true taste from the sea, served with lemon wedges. Cooked with peanut oil.
Buttermilk Pancakes
Made fresh every day, premium ingredients, served with whipped butter and hot maple syrup. Cooked with peanut oil.
Blueberry Pancakes
Buttermilk pancakes filled with plump blueberries and lightly dusted with powdered sugar, served with whipped butter and hot blueberry compote. Cooked with peanut oil.
Fresh Georgia Pecan Pancakes
Filled and topped with hot toasted pecans, lightly dusted with powdered sugar, served with whipped butter and hot tropical syrup. Cooked with peanut oil.
Buckwheat Pancakes
Straight from the mill, yeasty old fashioned pancakes, served with whipped butter and hot maple syrup. Cooked with peanut oil.
Bacon Pancakes
Our premium pancakes filled with real bits of bacon, served with whipped butter and hot maple syrup. Cooked with peanut oil.
Potato Pancakes
Delicious potato pancakes served with sour cream or cinnamon applesauce. Cooked with peanut oil.
Chocolate Chip Pancakes
Our fresh buttermilk pancakes filled with chocolate chips and lightly dusted with powdered sugar, served with whipped butter and hot maple syrup. Cooked with peanut oil.
Dutch Baby Pancake
Oven baked, served with whipped butter, lemon and powdered sugar.
49er Flap Jacks Pancake
From the mother lode country, plate sized, chewy, and tender. Served with whipped butter and hot syrup. Cooked with peanut oil.
Junior Plate Pancake
Favorite for children under 12. 3 buttermilk pancakes with a choice of bacon, link, patty sausage or one egg any style, served with whipped butter and syrup. Cooked with peanut oil.
Sourdough Pancakes
This is the favorite recipe of the Klondike gold rush. 20 years old sour starter. Served with whipped butter and hot maple syrup, dusted with powdered sugar. Cooked with peanut oil.
Wheat Germ Pancakes
Specialty wheat germ pancakes served with whipped butter and hot maple syrup. Cooked with peanut oil.
10 Dollars Pancakes
10 delicious silver dollar pancakes served with whipped butter and hot syrup. Cooked with peanut oil.
Fresh Banana Pancakes
Our buttermilk premium pancakes filled with diced fresh bananas, served with whipped butter and hot tropical syrup, dusted with powdered sugar. Cooked with peanut oil.
Coconut Pancakes
Filled and topped with hot toasted coconut, lightly dusted with powdered sugar, served with whipped butter and hot tropical syrup. Cooked with peanut oil.
Hawaiian Pancakes
Our fresh buttermilk pancakes filled with crushed pineapple and lightly dusted with powdered sugar, served with whipped butter and hot tropical syrup. Cooked with peanut oil.
Oatmeal Pancakes
Served with whipped butter and hot homemade apple syrup dusted with cinnamon sugar. Cooked with peanut oil.

Waffles
Strawberry Waffle
Our golden brown waffle lightly dusted with powdered sugar, then topped with strawberries and fresh whipped cream.
Apple Waffle
Our golden brown waffle baked with fresh granny smith apples, lightly topped with pure diced apples and cinnamon. Served with whipped butter and hot homemade apple syrup.
Bacon Waffle
Our golden brown waffle baked with real bits of bacon, served with whipped butter and hot maple syrup.
Coconut Waffle
Our golden brown waffle filled and topped with toasted coconut and lightly dusted with powdered sugar, served with whipped butter and hot tropical syrup.
Blueberry Waffle
Our golden brown waffle baked with delicious, plump blueberries and lightly dusted with powdered sugar, served with whipped butter and hot blueberry compote.
Pecan Waffle
Our golden brown waffle baked with chopped pecans, served with whipped butter and hot tropical syrup.
Plain Waffle
Golden brown waffle, served with whipped butter and hot maple syrup.

Crepes
French Crepes
3 delicate crepes filled with fresh frozen strawberries or strawberry preserves, topped with hot strawberry syrup and dusted with powdered sugar.
Chocolate Crepes
3 luscious crepes spread with homemade truffle.
Continental Crepes
3 delicate crepes rolled with sour cream tempered with triple sec and lightly dusted with powdered sugar, served with hot tropical syrup.
Tahitian Maiden's Dream Crepes
A tender crepe filled with golden ripe bananas sliced in sour cream and tempered with triple sec, sherry and brandy, topped with diced bananas in our apricot sauce.
Fresh Fruit Crepe
1 tender crepe filled and topped with luscious fresh fruit in season and lightly dusted with powdered sugar, served with fresh whipped cream.
Cherry Kijafa Crepes
3 delicate crepes filled and topped with Montmorency cherries simmered in our kijafa sauce and lightly dusted with powdered sugar.
Apple Crepe
1 tender crepe filled with diced apples, sour cream and cinnamon sugar, topped with chopped pecans.
Mandarin Crepes
The crepe suzette of the orient. Three delicate crepes rolled and topped with mandarin orange segments tempered with triple sec. Topped with hot tropical syrup and lightly dusted with powdered sugar.
Plain Crepes
3 delicious crepes served with butter and powder sugar on the side.
Nutella Crepes
3 delicious nutella crepes served with butter and powder sugar on the side.
Single Crepes
1 single crepe with your choice of French, cherry, continental, chocolate, nutella, and mandarin crepes only.
Strawberries

Egg Specialties
Bacon and Eggs
Thick sliced bacon and two large fresh USDA eggs, served any style.
Ham and Eggs
A thick slice of sugar cured hickory smoked ham and two large fresh USDA eggs, served any style.
Links and Eggs
Our special seasoned link sausage and two large fresh USDA eggs, served any style.
Sausage and Eggs
Our special seasoned patty sausage and two large fresh USDA eggs, served any style.
Canadian Bacon and Eggs
4 slices of sugar cured hickory smoked Canadian bacon and 2 large fresh USDA eggs, served any style.
Diced Ham and Scrambled Eggs
3 fresh USDA eggs lightly scrambled with diced sugar cured hickory smoked ham.
Corned Beef Hash
Corned beef hash and 2 large fresh USDA eggs.

Sandwiches and Burgers
BLT Sandwich
Vegetarian Sandwich
Served with lettuce, tomatoes, cucumber, avocado, onion and Swiss cheese.
Canadian Bacon and Egg Sandwich
Slices of Canadian bacon served with eggs, lettuce and tomato.
Hot Ham and Swiss Sandwich
Hot ham and Swiss cheese, served with lettuce and tomato.
Philly Sandwich
Tender chicken or steak sauteed with green pepper and onion, topped with Swiss cheese.
Grilled Cheese Sandwich
Grilled toast cheese sandwich, served with a choice of cheddar or Swiss cheese.
Burger
Grilled angus beef, tomato and lettuce, served your way on a burger bun.
Cheeseburger
Grilled Angus beef, cheese, tomato and lettuce, served your way on a burger bun.
Bacon Cheeseburger
Grilled Angus beef, bacon, cheese, tomato and lettuce, served your way on a burger bun.

House Specialties
Eggs Michael
An English muffin, sausage and poached eggs topped with mushroom sauce and 4 potato pancakes.
Rib Eye Steak and Eggs
Rib eye steak, grilled, served with 2 eggs your style and hash browns. And buttermilk pancakes.
Hawaiian Ham Steak
6 oz. slice of hickory smoked dry cured ham, served with pineapple slices, prunes and four potato pancakes.
French Toast
2 slices of egg toast dipped in egg batter, dusted with powdered sugar.
The 2 by 4
2 eggs your style served with 4 buttermilk pancakes.
Pigs in A Blanket
3 link sausages wrapped in buttermilk pancakes, dusted with powdered sugar.
Eggs Benedict
An English muffin, Canadian bacon and poached eggs topped with hollandaise sauce and shredded hash browns.

Beverages
Coffee
Sodas
Juices
Chocolate Milk
Hot Chocolate

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Recent Reviews

OPH is one of my favorite breakfast chains, but this location isn't like the others. The usually light, fluffy pancakes were heavier and the bacon wasn't the thick-cut awesomeness found across other OPH locations. The building was also an anomaly among other OPH locations I've been to, lacking some polish and charm. Service was attentive, so points there.

As a breakfast place, not terrible. But as an OPH, I expected more consistency with the brand...
August 2025
The food is pretty expensive but you get ginormous portions. Everything pictured is one meal. We split between two friends and both had leftovers. The restaurant itself has a really confusing layout and no one to greet you.
July 2025
When we walked in the ohop it was like home, we got seated and the service was great. We got the grapefruit juice and it was quickly served. The grapefruit juice was perfectly hand made. Then came the light of the whole experience the Dutch baby and the salmon Benedict, the condiments for the Dutch baby were amazing. The soft pancakey texture of the Dutch baby made it more appetizing. The egg on the salmon Benedict was so soft an creamy. The salmon was cooked to perfection. It...
June 2025

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The Original Pancake House

420 S San Antonio Rd, Los Altos, CA 94022
(650) 559-9197