Log Cabin Pancake House

Not wanting to walk far from our hotel in Virginia Beach, VA, we decided to try breakfast at the Log Cabin Pancake House. We didn't have to wait long for a table, which we were thankful for, and, unlike other breakfast-only joints in town, this one never had a line; we soon found out why.

Our waitress introduced the restaurant’s breakfast buffet to us suggesting that “almost everything on the regular menu is there,” then took our drink order and walked off. When she returned, with two waters and a coffee, she took our regular order (no buffets for us!).

We ordered the Hungarian pancakes as well as a Belgian Waffle and a side of home fries.  The Hungarian pancakes – crispy pancakes wrapped around warm pecans topped with strawberry compote – were good, but dense. The restaurant also charged extra for whipped cream on pancakes. The waffle was fluffy, but once we poured syrup on it, it practically melted.

The home fries were just OK – not worth ordering in addition to our meals.

While the food was good, our service was terrible. We could see a number of waitresses attending to the tables around us. Our waitress seemed to have been uninterested in working that morning, in that she never came back throughout our meal to top off coffee, or even to make sure our food was all right. We didn't see her again until we were done eating and asked her for our check.

We also witnessed the hostess seat a large group and in doing so, took a chair from another table where guests were sitting, and the chair was in use by a guest that was up at the buffet. The family tried to tell the woman that the chair is being used, that someone is sitting there, but she paid them no heed and took it anyway. She did, eventually, replace their now missing chair.