Your one and only guide to Sydney’s best pancakes

Happyfield is a cheerily yellow diner-style eatery that keeps it simultaneously modern and retro for maximum good vibes all around.

Flipping some of the absolute best pancakes in the city, there are three plates you can grab here: the savoury stack, sweet stack, and short stack. The short stack keeps it simple and sweet with three pancakes served with Pepe Seya butter and 100% Canadian maple syrup. The sweet stack goes the way of every trigger-happy fruit lover and is topped with charred banana, passionfruit, strawberry, blueberries, whipped cream and maple syrup.

If checking out Cafe Bella Dee’s Instagram doesn’t get you drooling, you must be the human equivalent of self-control and discipline. A pretty face doesn’t mean no substance though, and not only are the brunch dishes here major eye-candy, they also taste fantastic.

The sweet ricotta pancakes come with Italian ricotta, seasonal fruit, and are finished off with honey and caramelised walnuts. The pancakes are thick, fluffy, and absolutely picture-perfect. Opt for the Lotus Biscoff option that comes drizzled in Biscoff sauce, a scoop of ice cream, and crushed Biscoff for a treat you’ll want to devour again and again.

Being an iconic household name in Tokyo for fat stacks of fluffy souffle pancakes should be enough to convince you that Gram is the real deal. Plastered all over social media, you’ll find the fluffy pancakes that took the world by storm before finally arriving at our sunny shores.

The world-renowned cloud-like concoctions are unlike anything you’ve seen or tasted before: the stack is wobbly and melt-in-your-mouth fluffy, coming in a variety of flavours from the premium pancakes topped with Nutella, hot chocolate sauce and toasted hazelnuts to tiramisu and honey apple and earl grey tea flavours. Psst, you can even get savoury pancakes and French toast here.

The ricotta hotcakes at bills didn’t spark a brunch cafe revival flame for no reason – the stack here is in a word: decadent. Order one for yourself and you’ll be greeted with a plate of fluffy ricotta hotcakes served with banana, a melting slab of honeycomb butter, and a perfect drizzle of maple syrup.

An absolute game changer of a pancake stack, devour the whole helping warm and your taste buds will thank you for it.

The Brother’s Cafe is the perfect place to pop in for great burgers and pasta dishes, but the made-to-order souffle pancakes are the real star of the show. Every dish from the heaping Karee burger to the big prawn omelette on croissant are gorgeously plated, and the fluffy pancakes are no different. Pick from Thai tea, Tiramisu, and Matcha tea flavours for a decadent treat you’re not likely to forget anytime soon. Served with seasonal fruit and ice cream, the pancakes here make for the perfect sweet-tooth brunch pick.

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