Pamelas Diner

Excellent. Every time. Got the Tex med omelette. Fast service and really tasty. A little pricey but worth it.

This is a famous place in Pittsburgh for its Crêpe Pancakes. That’s what I would order.
The other breakfast choices are not prepared with finesse at all rather just cooked and thrown on the plate. But the Crêpe Pancakes are unique and great.

This is a bigger and less crowded location for Pamela’s. It’s also a bit out of the way in Mt Lebanon, but it has arguably more parking than the other locations (small lot, as well as plenty of street parking close by).
The quality of the food here is consistent with the other Pamela’s. As usual, get the hotcakes, and their famous Lyonnaise potatoes. I have *never* found potatoes anywhere else that tasted half as good as these. Of course, don’t forget the corned beef hash!
Don’t forget that they are cash only. That bites me every single time.

Food and service were amazing by far the best French toast in town. Will return for more croissant French toast

Really can’t review a diner when you wait so long to place an order that you realize if you want to eat you need to go somewhere else. I always have enjoyed the P&G diner at other locations, the Mt Lebanon one is a new low for me. My recomendation is to head somewhere, heck anywhere other than here. I’m at 15 minutes and still waiting.

Service ridiculously slow there was only 3 parties totaling 7 people in restaurant and I waited over 8 minutes to be recognized and was never even offered coffee
I politely said thank you and left without eating a thing. They need to add more help and be more efficient.
Gave it one more chance complete opposite
Service was great and so was food

Food and price great but this Pamela’s definitely missed the usual hallmark this local chain establishment is known for of great CLEAN, and nostalgically-​hip decorated.
Bonus points for super survive.
But really Pamela’s close for a few days to clean, paint and give us the touches of you we love so much!
Until then I’ll drive to see you in one of your other locales!

They sell Costco brand pre-​cooked microwave bacon as their «cooked» bacon. Paper thin. Do not waste your money. Location has gone done hill lately.

When the in laws come to town I automatically think yay we are going to Pamela’s! Their Lyonnaise potatoes and strawberry crêpe hot cakes are delish! The potatoes are fried with onions and the crêpe hot cake has strawberries, brown sugar, and sour cream rolled up then whipped cream on top!
If you go for breakfast on the weekends be prepared to wait a little bit for a table then the food takes about an additional 30 minutes. It’s totally worth the wait in my book! Everyone is so friendly at this location too! CASH only peeps.

If you are a breakfast person you MUST go here! My two favorite items on the menu are Gail’s Eggs and the Hot Cakes. Gail’s eggs are scrambled eggs that come with cram cheese and chives. I thought it sounded weird but it is delicious! It comes with home fries and toast. It’s a very savory breakfast. If I’m in the mood for sweet then it’s all about the hot cakes. They are thin-​not as thin as crepes but very close. They have vanilla in the batter which makes them wonderful. They are crispy around the edges so you get soft hot cakes with a bit of crunch. You can get them with chocolate chips and bananas or other combinations or even filled with strawberries and whipped cream but I love them plain.
It’s a CASH only place so hit the ATM first.

Wife had banana chocolate chip pancakes, I went for the morning after special and both were phenomenal. I’m a breakfast sausage guy and it was nothing special but certainly edible. We loved this place.

This place is good. The Tex-​Mex omelet is the closest thing to Tex-​Mex I’ve had since moving to PA from Texas and that includes the Mexican restaurants!
The banana chocolate chip hotcakes are more like a crêpe than actual hotcakes. The Dor-​Stop has them beat on banana chocolate chip hotcakes.
The famous lyonnaise potatoes were delicious. Very rich and tasty. The potatoes were better than my hotcakes and the Tex-​Mex omelet was the winner by far.
The staff were friendly. It’s a little hectic inside when it’s busy. Trying to get in and get your name on the list while other people pile in causes some tension on making sure no one line jumps you.
The cash only thing is a little absurd and behind the times. I’d be interested in knowing the thought behind that. But if you’re prepared its NBD.

I always enjoy going to this place after a good night of fun! The servers are usually really friendly and I don’t mind giving them a good tip. The only thing is that the wait is always crazy but other than that, I really enjoy coming here!

I’d always heard how amazing this place was and of did not love up to the hype in my opinion. I didn’t like the lioneese (spelling?) Potatoes but the hot cakes were good. Don’t know if I’ll go back

Oh. My. Gosh. Go here! Tex mex omelette was the best thing ever. Salsa, guac, chorizo, sour cream. Seriously I died and went to heaven. Their bread is like thick Texas toast or something, to die for. And their potatoes – seriously amazing. And the price is so legit. Not expensive at all. My boyfriend got something with pancakes and they were like crêpe style pancakes and he was drooling over them. So awesome.
And the service was great. Our server was friendly and I honestly think the food came out faster than it would at an actual fast food place. To some that may seem weird but when I’m hungry I hate waiting so it was awesome for us!
It is kinda of a small place. And it is cash only. So keep that in mind. But please get breakfast here ASAP.
Oh, they do have some lunch items as well but their menu is on the small side in general.

Yikes the hotcakes here are FREAKIN FABULOUS!!! I’m not kidding. They’re def in between a pancake and a crêpe– large and not super thick like a crêpe, and yet fluffy with pancake texture. There was a brown sugar crispiness to it. The blueberries were fresh and not of the jam variety. No need for syrup. Amaze… balls.
Chorizo hash is also a super win. Spicy and filling!

I don’t get the local fascination with this place. The food is always swimming in grease and is so oversized its unnecessary.
This was the second time I tried this place. The taste is ok if you can get past the grease for any eggs and the pancakes are varied and tasty. But nothing can kill a place like unsanitary conditions and bad, rude, inattentive service. I would like to see my server more than once and not feel like I’m bothering her! The multiple, persistent flies on every sticky surface, at this sitting, was so off putting I finally just left my meal. Waitress watched us battling flies (I’m not talking one or two, but a dozen or so over tables, food, windows, everything) and didn’t apologize or seem fazed or ask if anything was wrong with my mostly full meal pretty much left untouched. I regret that we paid, but we did, and we left. Definitley wont be returning.

This will probably turn out to be one of my shortest reviews; here goes:
I love this Pamela’s. It’s super close to my part of town. They know exactly how to cook whatever you order, from pancakes to omelets. Everything is delicious. Even the actual place, despite being small, feels super welcoming and open; I love their décor and exploring what’s up on and around the walls. I’ve actually ordered lunch sandwiches here and at the Oakland location and loved them, but not nearly as much as breakfast. Breakfast is Pamela’s specialty no matter what part of town you’re in.
Others have mentioned the long wait during peak hours, but that’s true of ALL Pamela’s locations. Similarly, all of the locations are cash only, so I can’t hold this against them.
I’ll be back soon, Pamela’s!

There’s a lot of things I found difficult about this place, but the food made up for every difficulty.
Getting inside is hard. Traffic is insane on that street. If you’re coming at it from the direction of Green Tree, you won’t know that there’s a parking lot for Pamela’s on the other side of the building, but it is there. Try there first, because there are signs warning you not to park in other businesses’ parking spots if your destination is Pamela’s. Must be a common problem. The parking lot is a bit cramped, and I have a feeling we got lucky getting a spot. There’s some street parking, but I don’t recommend that. When we did get seated, I got a show: right outside, an old lady trying to get out of a parking spot out front repeatedly hit the vehicles in front of and behind her, and tied up traffic for 20 minutes. It was good fun.
So we get to the door and all I see are the backs of people. We take a deep breath and walk in, and miraculously, we are instantly spotted by the hostess! She asks (yells) for our name and how many, and put us on her clipboard. We try not to get in the way of more people coming in, but it’s tough. My solution was to hang out next to the cashier, looking like a trainee and probably making him uncomfortable. But it was all over in –5 minutes when our name was yelled and we squirmed through the crowd to a little table inches away from other little tables full of people. It’s incredible how many tables they fit in there. I ran out of hot sauce at one point, and all I had to do was nudge the stranger to my right and ask if I could swipe hers. I didn’t even have to get up!
Now it’s cash only and there’s no ATM, so we were on a budget cuz I only had like 12 $. So come prepared. I had 2 eggs, bacon, and the famous lyonnaise potatoes, and my husband had pancakes. We got all that for under $ 12 plus left a 20% tip. I wanted to try everything on their menu, cuz it all looked good, and everything on the tables around me looked good. The food we ordered was delicious and well portioned.
With the amount of people packed in that place, I expected the wait time to be long and the service slow, but it was quite the opposite! Everything was prompt. Waitresses were busy, but they got it all done.
So overall, despite the parking hazards and close quarters, Pamela’s is a cool place. I want to go back when I have the cash to try an omelet!

Did you know you could get healthy options at Pamela’s? I sure didn’t! Although I would love to stick my face in a plate of their Lyonnaise Potatoes, I’m trying to be good (snooze).
I recently discovered their spinach and feta omelet, which I love, so I just health-​ied it up with egg whites, whole wheat toast sans butter (because they tend to be heavy on the butta) and a side of fruit. And you know what? It was still tasty! I was even surprised how awesome the fruit was! It was a big bowl full of delicious banana’s and strawberries! They also have turkey bacon and sausage. I was tempted to add that one, you know, for more protein, but I stuck with my little satisfying dish.
This location is very tiny, so I’d strongly suggest going during off hours. I’ve been during peak and you wait forever! Plus, there’s very limited parking on the side of the building. And most importantly, it’s CASH ONLY, with no ATM for a couple blocks.
So eat up, with loads of delicious calories or not!