Eat'n Park

A true Pittsburgh tradition - Eat'n Park. For non-Pittsburghers, think Denny's with a little extra personality, with locations all over the Western PA area. So it's only natural that one of our Saturday's would include a visit. We had a busy Holiday weekend ahead of us, so we chose the location closest to us, on Banksville Road. As with every Eat'n Park in the city, it is always busy, but efficiently run, so we were seated rather quickly.

Eat'n Park is famous for it's smiley-face cookies.  And for Memorial Day, the typical white-icing has been replaced with red, white and blue. Yummy!

Cookies, and Pies. All kinds of pies are ready to be taken home, or served by the slice, and a colorful wheel of pies tempts you at your table while you hungrily await your food to be served.

But wait! I'm here to tell you about our Breakfast in Pittsburgh, not dessert! ... Or Am I ???

May is Strawberry season, so they say. And in May, Eat'n Park has a special Strawberry menu including Strawberry Banana French Toast. What's not to love? Fruit and my favorite weekend breakfast. Now don't get me wrong, my breakfast was delicious, but was definitely sugar laden. Here's the description:

Strawberry Banana French Toast 
And you thought our Bananas Foster French Toast was good! Try adding strawberries and swapping out the Texas Toast for our homemade grilled strawberry bread. Oh yeah! Served with three pieces of bacon.

It was the grilled strawberry bread. Delicious, but not very nutritious. So dessert for breakfast it was! Husband on the other hand was much more sensible (relatively speaking) with the "Super Griddle Smile" consisting of 2 pancakes, 2 eggs, 2 bacon, 2 sausage, and potatoes.

Not exactly sure what kind of syrup came on the strawberry sweet bread "French toast" but it was very thick and super duper sweet. The whole thing pretty much melts in your mouth! Oh, and I also enjoyed a really tasty cafe-style mug of Chai tea.

So night or day, if you're in the mood for something sweet, Eat'n Park is the place to be! Oh, and the best part is you never have to wait:

See the smiley cookies in the background :)