It started out as a family business but it isn't anymore. Two or three generations begot a bunch of franchises, and it tastes like a chain, albeit a good one.
The Original Pancake House's Redondo Beach location is far from original, and the only overarching theme I can sense from them is eggs. Everything is made with eggs. So many eggs. Everything tastes like egg, everything is the color of an egg, and everything is dense and heavy like things made with egg.
The Kijafa Cherry Crepes, for example, have a promising cherry glaze, but there is just so much egg. I would not describe this dish as "delicate", though it does not taste bad by any means. Got a side of Sausage as well, and I do like the sweeter undertones and not-overly-salty spice mix.
The Dutch Baby is a conglomeration of two orders of crepes, a thick slab of dense egg. I would liken it to a very heavy Yorkshire pudding with sugar.
I think a lot gets lost when family fare becomes a chain. Even if the recipe is the same, something about the quality and the consistency changes, and the cracks begin to show. In this case, someone cracked too many eggs into the dough.
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