Life Pancake Company

426 Jersey Ave, Jersey City, NJ 07302 (no website yet)

This was not even the second choice for lunch today.  The first choice was Chili's over near the ShopRite, BJ's, Newport Mall.  The second choice was the Brownstone Diner.  BUT the Brownstone does not exist any longer, it is now this "Life Pancake Company."

I was there about their second week after re-launch.  And the experience showed the LACK of experience of the kitchen and wait staff.

Notes

The Benedict Burger

The Benedict Burger is a mashup of eggs Benedict and a burger.  To me, this sounds like a perfect thing.  In practice the day I was there, not so perfect.  I ordered a burger cooked 'Medium' - it was cooked 'Well', very rarely my choice unless at a fast-food chain.  The beef patty was not the only thing cooked 'Well,' so was the fried egg.  Being fried is NOT my problem, it might have been listed as fried on the menu.  My problem was the yoke.  When cut into, the yoke should be totally runny like this:

Gordon Ramsay's Eggs Benedict

Oozing the smooth rich flavor of the yolk over the sandwich.  While I am on this rant, I will say the hollandaise sauce was not bad for diner hollandaise.  It might even have been house-made.

Same facade and exterior.

New Interior, gone is the counter service.  What WAS the ceiling in the old place?

The view from our table.  Some happy customers