18 Ultimate Ways to Celebrate Pancake Day
Shrove Tuesday, the day when you’re allowed to eat at least ten pancakes and no one can judge you.Whether you want to cover them in sugar and lemon; douse them in maple syrup; pile on rashers of bacon or pour melted chocolate all over them, then you can guarantee you’ll find it in this fair city of ours, because London sure does a flippin’ good pancake. Get involved in a pancake challenge, eat for charity, have them for all three courses or go for the healthy option, just make sure you get battered…pancake battered obviously, it’s a Tuesday:
No 32 The Old Town, No 197 Chiswick Fire Station, No 1 Duke Street, No 11 Pimlico Road
Fluffy Ricotta Pancakes
Where: Various
Website: www.no197chiswickfirestation.com
Bronte
Kale Pancakes
If you like to embrace pancake day with a healthy twist then you’ll be wanting to head to Bronte on the Strand. Here they are giving things a green twist with edamame and kale pancakes topped with smoked avocado ratatouille, sheep’s milk yogurt and a dollop of harissa. Rise and shine!
Where: 1-3 Strand, London WC2N 5EJ, United Kingdom
Website: www.bronte.co.uk
German Gymnasium
Black Forest Pancakes
Combine pancakes with Black Forrest gateau and you have two of our favourite things. German Gymnasium are combining the two this pancake day with a Bavarian twist on things; chocolate and cherries otherwise known as Schwarzwälder Kirsch Pfannkuche. Bonus points if you order in German.
Where: 1 King’s Boulevard, London, N1C 4BU
Website: www.germangymnasium.com
Aster
Nordic Potato Pancakes
Newly opened Aster is getting into the spirit of things with a Scandi take on pancakes. Visit on Tuesday 28th and feast on Nordic potato pancakes topped with mushrooms, egg and béarnaise sauce or the permanent fixtures on the breakfast menu in the downstairs cafe; crème fraîche, banana and maple syrup or ricotta, berry compote and whipped cream.
Where: 150 Victoria Street, London SW1E 5LB, United Kingdom
Website: www.aster-restaurant.com
Aqua Shard
Crepe Cake and Pancake Cocktail
Aqua Shard will be serving up their epic layered mille feuille pancake cake this Shrove Tuesday. One of the most photogenic desserts out there, it’s perfect for those who can’t choose between sweet and savoury, as thin layers of crepe are served with blueberry ripple ice cream, maple syrup jelly and a rasher of crispy syrup-glazed pancetta to top it off. Round off the celebrations properly with the specially created pancake cocktail; dark rum, chocolate vermouth and maple syrup topped with a caramel basket and mini pancake.
Where: Level 31, The Shard, 31 St Thomas Street, London, SE1 9RY, United Kingdom
Website: www.aquashard.co.uk
The Breakfast Club
Pancake Eating Challenge
It’s time to don your eating pants, to put any thoughts of calorie consumption to one side and stuff your face with pancakes. Yep, the annual pancake challenge at The Breakfast Club is back – the premise is simple. Eat 12 pancakes in 12 minutes or less and the pancakes are free. Lose and you pay full price with all the profits going to local charities. These aren’t just thin pancakes though, they’re American style and loaded with toppings like bourbon pulled-pork Cubanos with cheese, kale and pickled slaw; triple chocolate with fudge and mallow, salted caramel banoffee and lemon meringue pie. Not for the faint hearted.
Challenge 28th February but pancake specials available now – 28th February
Where: Various
Website: www.thebreakfastclubcafes.com
Foxlow
A Magic Breakfast
If there was ever a day to set your alarm that bit earlier to go out for breakfast it would be Pancake Day. Head to Foxlow from 8am and start the day with the likes of The Elvis – a decadent mix of ricotta, peanut butter, maple glazed bacon and roasted banana, or keep things simple with classic lemon and sugar. You’ll be heading to work happy and helping disadvantaged children as all proceeds go to charity Magic Breakfast, who work to stop children from going to school hungry. Feeling good, doing good.
Where: Clerkenwell and Balham
Website: www.foxlow.co.uk
Smith & Wollensky
All You Can Eat
Smith & Wollensky are playing to their American beginnings with a classic all you can eat offering.* You’ve got to stock up, especially if you’re going to be giving up sugar for Lent. They’re smothered in blueberries and maple syrup and all for £14.
*We say all you can eat, but they will stop you after 15. That said if you want more than 15 you might need to reassess your appetite.
Where: The Adelphi, 1-11 John Adam Street, Covent Garden Riverside, London WC2N 6HT, United Kingdom
Website: www.smithandwollensky.co.uk
Aviary
Rooftop Views and Sky High Pancakes
Aviary are celebrating pancake day with stacks of fluffy pancakes that are going to be piled high and loaded with gooey chocolate chip cookies, cookie dough ice cream, chocolate sauce, peanut and crunchy honeycomb. If you can, take in the London views from the rooftop as you inhale your pancakes.
Where: 10th Floor Montcalm Royal London House Hotel, 22-25 Finsbury Square, London EC2A 1DX
Website: www.aviarylondon.com
Tuttons Brasserie and Bar
Pancake Competition
Pancakes are great, but free pancakes are even better…obviously. Tuttons in Covent Garden are running a competition to win a pancake brunch for two on Pancake Day – head to their Facebook, Twitter and Instagram (links on their website) to enter! For the rest of us, we can still indulge in pancakes with maple syrup and either smoked, streaky bacon or mixed berries.
Where: 11/12 Russell Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2B 5HZ, United Kingdom
Website: www.tuttons.com
Tom's Kitchen Chelsea
3 Courses of Pancakes
Not just a pudding or an afterthought, pancakes at Tom’s Kitchen are going to be the main attraction, being served for starter, main course and pudding. Begin with potato pancake with fried duck egg, wild mushroom ragout and bacon crumbs followed by prawn and cheese with butter spinach and mustard sauce and finishing with blood orange pancakes with orange butter sauce and marmalade.
Available at Tom’s Kitchen Chelsea, St Katharine Docks, Canary Wharf, Somerset House and Birmingham
Where: Tom's Kitchen, Chelsea, London, United Kingdom
Website: www.tomskitchen.co.uk
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