American Pancake House

Excellent breakfast food. Great staff. Some of the best hashbrowns I've had. I love it here.

So far, this is our favorite breakfast place in South Bend.  The parking lot is always full, which is a good sign, in my opinion.  I'm totally in love with their "skillets," which are dishes filled with hash browns, plus meats, veggies, and/or seasonings and topped with eggs.  I particularly enjoy the Mexican one - the chorizo is a nice touch.  

The servers are always friendly, the coffee is reasonably good, and the food is solid, Midwestern breakfast food.  The portions are enormous, so I can never finish my meal, but I take the rest home and enjoy it later.  Considering the huge size of a meal, the prices are surprisingly good.  I believe a 4-egg skillet is something like $7 or 8.  We don't go out for breakfast often (hubster and I prefer to cook our own), but when we do, we inevitably head here.

The American Pancake House is a superb destination for the aspiring obese en route to watch the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. The Four egg omelettes must be made from four ostrich eggs - I know of no earthly chicken that can produce four eggs that result in what must be an eight pound breakfast platter.  Ample quantity of hash browns help absorb the generous butter in which said eggs are cooked. All in all it amounts to a solid base to begin the day, especially when confronted with standing in the midwest cold and rain for hours on end. Beats the IHOP or Denny's routinely found in environs such as this. Whether ordering pancakes, skillet, omelette, or German pancake apple extravaganza I'm betting you will have more food to shovel down your gullet than you can handle.