It has been a while since I last got out and enjoyed a good breakfast and my friends Shawna & Dan decided to make sure that I experienced the best Banana pancakes in Seattle. So this saturday morning it was off to West Seattle, not only for my first time at Circa, but also my first time heading over the West Seattle bridge and into West Seattle itself, so this post kind of shows both.
So Circa is a little place, unassuming from the outside in the middle of just a residential neighbourhood. Funnily enough it is just walking distance from Shawna’s apartment so that’s where Dan & I parked and walked up to meet her there. It wasn’t as busy as it could have been but it was earlyish for a Saturday morning. I didn’t have to even look at the menu as it was quite simple what I was getting but the menu is pretty good. Good choice of Savoury, good choice of sweet but not overwhelming. Prices are good to.
Shawna & Dan both went with scrambles and they looked good, not to big and heavy looking like a lot of places I have been to. The pancakes looked good. They were average size, came with 2 strips of bacon, some butter and 2 eggs (not in the photo). Now the banana pancakes don’t come with the usual maple syrup, they come with a very dark brown “Pecan Praline syrup”. It looks good, and it wasn’t as sweet as I expected it to be. What sat in front of me was a good plate of food. Not to big and definately tasted pretty damn good. The last banana pancakes I ate were really big and heavy, these were just the right size and had way more banana flavour. The bacon tasted good but imo needed to be a little bit more crispier.
Overall I think these had to be the best Pancakes I have had in Seattle, they definately got it right and I don’t think it is the kid of place that has a big following online, it felt more like a small neighborhood place that is out of the way and more “hole in the wall”. I did convince Dan & Shawna to hopefully join me at Maltby Cafe for my birthday, it won’t be a huge big thing but I have a craving for a cinnamon roll.
After a good breakfast (and much discussion of if that really classified as a biscuit or not), Dan & Shawna took me on a little tour of west Seattle. A drive along Alki Beach (no parks on the side unfortunately) and part of me saying to myself “I must come down here another time with the bike and go for a ride” and then to a few lookouts that overlook Seattle so that I could get a few photos. Much fun!
