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Dudley's Pancake House
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My cat is called Dudley. Do you think he qualifies for free food?
And, seeing as how it's truffle season do you think we can persuade them to do a truffle pancake special? In our house a "Dudley Truffle" is not something anyone would want to eat.
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My cat is called Dudley. Do you think he qualifies for free food?
And, seeing as how it's truffle season do you think we can persuade them to do a truffle pancake special? In our house a "Dudley Truffle" is not something anyone would want to eat.
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It looks like Symposium but even brighter with neon tubes on the wall and floor to ceiling glass on the front, kind of like greenhouse meets sunbed.
Personally I think they're doomed. Anyone fancy a pancake with pizza topping, when you can get a 'normal' pizza next door? I'll give 'em 6 months max...but you never know I might be proved wrong and have to eat my <s>hat</s> pancake?
So, we all know the decor is odd. The food and the service are even odder. Six of us went for a late lunch just to see what it's like. The youngest of the six is seven months old and didn't have anything to eat. (This is important for later!)
We ordered four pancakes (two savoury and two sweet) and a slew of coffees and milkshakes. The pancakes all seemed to have the same slightly sweet, paper-thin bases, which didn't really suit the savoury toppings. The sweet pancakes appeared to have had cold, sliced Mars bars sprinkled over the cooked bases, melted chocolate would have been better.
The milkshakes were OK and were served in what looked like dirty old cocktail shakers. The coffees got a big thumbs-up, particularly the boozy ones.
The bill came to £52. A bit steep for what was a light lunch for five. It wasn't until we had left that we realised that the service charge (12.5%) added to bills for six people or more had been added to the bill when only five of us had actually eaten. More than a bit cheeky.
The pancakes, I've been told, are nothing like the Dutch style pancakes of My Old Dutch of Holborn. Dudley's is a strange old place serving strange food. I can't ever imagining being in the mood for slightly sweet savoury pancakes when there's the pizzas of Papagone's and La Porchetta so close by. We won't be going back.
Okay - have had another blinding eggs f today, courtesy of...
the instore cafe at Lakeland at Brent Cross!
It was £4.95 for eggs f (two eggs, perfect just wilted bright green spinach and lovely hollandaise) and for a paltry 30p more, two bloody great big grilled field mushrooms between the muffin & spinach and the eggs. Wonderful.
Can't comment on their coffee - didn't have any, but blimey - their food rocks.
My pancake & milshake was luuuurvelyy...the restaurant was really busy so there was a nice buzz, and i'm loving the london skyline behind the bar. Thumbs up from me!
Deffo going back soon :-)
In fact the savoury menu come with chilli con carne & hoi sin duck toppings, which don't usually come on a pizza...so I don't think they are trying to compete with Papagonne's (which is yum too).
I think this makes a great change from the norm and i'm certainly not stuck in my ways or over-analytical..
So my boyfriend and I went to Dudley's on Sunday and we LOVED it! There is so much choice, we really couldn't decide! I had BBQ chicken on my pancake, which I wasn't sure about at first, but it was delicious. He had four cheeses which I tasted and it was good, though he thought it could have done with a sauce or something on it. For dessert (yes, we had savoury pancakes followed by sweet pancakes!) we shared a banana, chocolate sauce, baileys cream and ice cream pancake. It was also delicious.
The bill came to just under £30 (I had a coke and he had brandy coffee) which I thought was pretty reasonable. I was a bit worried that pancakes wouldn't be that filling but we were both stuffed! We are definitely going to go again, there are so many toppings I want to try, and I'll be introducing all my friends to the place as well! Plus I actually quite like the décor, it's trendy.
She really enjoyed their sweet pancakes on 2 occasions. (They do take away by the way).
I don't think any of us in the house would seriously consider sitting in at this place because of the slightly scary decor.
I guess I can't rule it out completely but there are many restaurants in the area with a slightly friendlier/more relaxed interior and menu.