The Original Pancake House

Denver

The Original Pancake House was founded in 1953 by Les Highet and Erma Hueneke. Drawing upon
their many years experience in the culinary field Original Pancake House headquarters

and their comprehensive working knowledge of authentic national and ethnic pancake recipes, they were able to offer without compromise this unique and original menu. This menu has gained national acclaim and remains unchanged to this day. The Original Pancake House in Portland has received two James Beard Awards. First in 1956 the “McCall’s Citation for Excellence” and second, in 1999 the “American’s Regional Classic Award”.

WHAT ARE PANCAKES?

Pancakes are the very old beginnings of bread and pastry and are made by people of all nationalities. Generally, a pancake is any kind of batter fried or baked in a skillet, on a griddle or on any hot surface. Today pancakes are enjoyed for breakfast, lunch or dinner and even for dessert.

Our batters are all made from scratch, every day, and are all carefully prepared and blended by hand using only the very freshest and finest quality ingredients available. Their preparation takes time and special care and the results are well worth the effort. Our recipes demand only the highest quality ingredients such as 93 score butter, pure whipping cream, fresh Grade AA eggs, hard wheat unbleached flour and our sourdough yeast. Old-fashioned sourdough yeast, just like your great grandmother used to use, is used in many of our batters. It is grown in our own kitchen from a culture of potatoes, flour, and sugar and is activated by a “start of yeast”. This sourdough yeast produces light, airy, fine-textured pancakes. Our lingonberries are imported from Sweden. The OPH blend coffee we use is specially blended just for our restaurant to compliment our food. Our ham and Canadian Bacon are naturally hickory smoked. Our smoked bacon is sliced extra thick. Our link and patty sausages are our own special recipe.

It is our constant objective to serve you the finest pancakes available anywhere. We strive to create an environment that offers a clean, friendly atmosphere with quality food and consistently great service.

Please allow extra time in comparison to other breakfast concepts as we choose to cook everything to order and offer unique menu items that take longer than the industry standard: products such as our own oven baked Apple Pancake, Dutch Baby and oven baked omelettes.

Thank you for coming to The Original Pancake House in Denver, Colorado. Our goal is to have you return often. The Original Pancake House franchises are now in operation coast to coast – imitators everywhere – look for the Highet and Hueneke Registered Trademark.

Your Host,
Sara Hueneke Ernst, a third generation OPH owner/operator

The Original Pancake House takes pride in working with other family-owned businesses that share our commitment to quality. We proudly feature:

Polidori sausage
Daily’s bacon
Robinson Dairy products