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Nov 1, '07 12:30 PM
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Category:	Restaurants
Cuisine:	American
Location:	6th and Lamar & W 38th @ Medical Parkway & 8600 Burnet Rd and a host of other locations around Austin, Texas

I've known for years that Waterloo Ice House made an excellent Burger, but I've recently had a hankerin' for pancakes. Now let me explain.
1- I like butter on my pancakes.
2- I won't consume corn syrup and most all maple flavored syrups have a corn syrup base.
3- Most restaurants serve butter and corn syrup.
4- As a result I bring my own butter and real maple syrup when I go out for pancakes.

I've tried McDonald's for pancakes. Tasty but small and only 3 for $1.89+tax.
For years I've visited the Omelettry, Burnet and W 49th St where there offer only margarine and maple flavored corn syrup. Thus the habit of taking my own butter and RMS was born. Monday morning I was in North Austin and chanced to stop at Waterloo @ Burnet and Steck for some breakfast.
Now most recently I've been eating the gingerbread pancakes at the Omelettry but finding them dry and bitter. I had planned on having one of Waterloo's wonderful overstuffed breakfast taco's (choice of 3 ingredients for $2.25, one is usually plenty {You'll need a fork or spoon for the overflow}), but noticing cinnamon pecan pancakes on the menu I chanced to ask if they served butter, "No, margarine" and if they served real or fake syrup, "Ohh, real maple syrup". So I said, "A short stack of Cinnamon Pecan Pancakes (2 huge pancakes/$4.95--$5.85 for 3), hold the trans-fats and Two eggs poached easy."
Well, even without the flavor of the traditional saturated fats in real butter these pancakes were to kill for. Simply the best pancakes I have had in like forever. Yes they are that good.
Then this morning I was downtown and went to the 6th and Lamar location and discovered that they have individual servings of whipped Land-o-Lakes butter available which completed the experience to perfection.
So to sum up a long story I've found the perfect breakfast restaurant, so when in Austin, Texas do a cinnamon pancake breakfast at the Waterloo @ 6th and Lamar. You won't be sorry.

Tags: waterloo, pancakes, breakfast taco, austin

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ememalb wrote on Nov 1, '07

re: #2...won't consume corn syrup. A taste thing or a intolerance to corn thing?

I haven't been back to Texas in a long time. I miss good Brisket.

rdewald wrote on Nov 1, '07

Not to mention that it's next to a great record store.

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tuckfoot wrote on Nov 1, '07

And around the corner from an Amy's Ice Cream parlor and across the street from BookPeople and kitty-corner from the world's greatest Whole Foods Market. All Five Star outfits.

tuckfoot wrote on Nov 1, '07

I have a general dislike for corn syrup as it has no nutritional value and has been tied to the alarming rise in the rates of both juvenile and adult onset diabetes especially since Coke successfully made the switch in 1985 with the New Coke back to Old Coke but with corn syrup replacing the former cane sugar sweetener. Coca-Cola would never have been able to make the switch were it not for the extreme flavor difference of New Coke between Old Cokes. Not many noticed the substitution but the other bottlers did and so nearly everyone was substituting corn for cane. Even many of the so-called "healthy" brands are or have used corn syrup as their sweetener of choice because it was so much less expensive. But, that also may be changing since the price of corn is going up because the silly USG and Big-Oil have convinced us silly Americans to demand we burn our food as fuel, ie. ethanol rather than actually making more efficient vehicles and engines.
Go figure. Oh, and BTW, the price of all other grains is rising as fields are turned from wheat and soy to grow more corn for ethanol. Of course, the real cause of inflation is an increase in money supply and since the Fed no longer publishes the M-1 we actually don't know how dilute our money is becoming but since 2000 the Fed has doubled the money supply at least twice making at least a four fold increase in the number of dollars chasing goods and services so we can expect at least a 400% resultant inflation factor and more as the Fed continues to make money out of thin air and loan it to US. Oil was about $25 a barrel at the turn of the century and about four times that now but they are still printing money for nothing and making US pay for it via inflation. Which, BTW really hasn't hit anything but oil and precious metals, yet.
But I digress. Corn syrup is dangerous to you health.

iambmetammy wrote on Dec 12, '07

Sounds really delicious. I love good pancakes.

tuckfoot wrote on Dec 12, '07

Had breakfast @ Waterloo just this past Tuesday and the cinnamon pecan pancakes with real maple syrup are still heavenly even without butter (They were out). If you are anywhere near Austin, check 'em out but think about bringing your own real butter.

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