Best of Brunch: Country Pancake Wrap With Bacon at Jersey City’s Brownstone Diner & Pancake Factory
May 2, 2009
If you’re someone who loves breakfast any time of the day, you now have a new mission: Take the 30 minute PATH Train ride to Jersey City’s Brownstone Diner & Pancake Factory for their Country Pancake Wrap ($8.25), scrambled eggs, potatoes, American cheese, and bacon or sausage, rolled into an oversized pancake which you can cover in butter and syrup (and dip in ketchup, like the NYC Food Guy). I was hoping for breakfast glory, but the deliciousness of salty-sweet American cheese infused pancake was overcome by the mediocrity of the bland potatoes and par-cooked bacon.
Read on for another look at gluttonous glory and for all the information you’ll need to find your way to Brownstone Diner.
A friend later told me that ordering one of their 31 varieties of pancakes would have been a better option. Or you can try the gigantic, fried onion & pepper-covered cheesesteak ($7.95), dripping with melted American cheese. Check out Brownstone’s website for a look at their 15-page menu and learn why it’s a heavyweight in the world of diners…
The PATH train has 4 stops in Manhattan that will let you off at Jersey City’s Grove Street Stop, pictured in the map below, just a 10-minute walk from Brownstone Diner.
Brownstone Diner & Pancake Factory 426 Jersey Avenue, Jersey City, New Jersey 07302 (201) 433-0471Click here for a PATH Train map
Click here for the weekday PATH train schedule from Manhattan to Grove Street
Click here for the Saturday PATH train schedule from Manhattan (via Hoboken) to Grove Street
Click here for the Sunday/Holiday PATH train schedule from Manhattan (via Hoboken) to Grove Street
May 2nd, 2009 at 6:55 am
Huh . . . I used to live in JC, but I never had a chance to stop by. I love me some pancakes, though. I’ll have to make a trip, as this wrap looks so good!
May 2nd, 2009 at 12:37 pm
like the new look!
May 2nd, 2009 at 12:54 pm
Wow, am going
Thank you,
Moe
May 2nd, 2009 at 5:34 pm
Michele,
It’s definitely time for you to get back to your hood and go to Brownstone.
zeitgeisty,
Thanks man, any thoughts on making it better?
Moe,
Look forward to hearing your review.
May 2nd, 2009 at 8:54 pm
Coincidentally, this just showed on a re-run of Diners, Drive-ins and Dives tonight.
I like the new look, Food Guy 🙂
May 2nd, 2009 at 9:49 pm
THIS IS THE BEST DINER AROUND BY FAR… I STRONGLY ENCOURAGE EVERYONE TO TAKE THE TRIP…. ITS NOT FAR AND THE PAYOFF IS REDICULOUS!!! YOU WILL NOT BE DISAPOINTED WITH WHAT EVER YOU SELECT, WHETHER ITS BREEAKFAST LUNCH OR DINNER… I PROMISE!!
May 3rd, 2009 at 11:42 am
kinda like they serve breakfast in china in thin pancake and in a plastic bag..gross!
May 3rd, 2009 at 4:02 pm
uh, this place isn’t good
May 3rd, 2009 at 4:40 pm
I had a heart attack just looking at these pics!!
May 4th, 2009 at 8:09 am
That looks kinda gross. Why use pancakes? What’s wrong with a regular breakfast burrito?
May 4th, 2009 at 12:33 pm
Dude, you were in my new hood. I went there yesterday, been there a handful of times now. The other wrap is better, the one without the potato’s. And yes, a stack of pancakes is the way to go, they are very tasty. Omelet’s are almost too big but never get the hash browns – rather have the grits or french fries. Yesterday I had Irish Benedict, it was real tasty. Corned beef hash is just so damn good.
November 15th, 2010 at 11:43 pm
ur’a buncha fat motherfuckers
February 12th, 2011 at 10:10 pm
This looks like an insane deal and totally worth a trip to JC. Besides, half the brunch places on my list to go to are in Brooklyn and take at least 30 minutes for me to get to – it’s the same difference. This wrap seems like quite a combination of the best breakfast foods all in one – I can’t wait to try it!
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