Restaurant
Deacon's Corner
October 9, 2009
Bless any breakfast spot that opens early, offers lightning-quick service, and plies you with high-quality caffeine. And when the menu offers diner classics (forget breakfast burritos) in mammoth portions at cheap and cheerful prices, it’s a little slice of heaven. Deacon’s Corner has all that and more, but the real reason to roll in on a weekend morning is for the city’s best buttermilk pancakes. They ladle ’em out big (approximately the size of a Frisbee), stack ’em high, and throw on a side of bacon, sausage, or ham, for just $6.25. The cakes are light, springy, buttery, and chewy—a perfect balance between delicate and substantial. The location (corner of Main and Alexander on the edge of Gastown) brings in a happy mix of lawyers and animators, young families, hungover party kids, blue-collars squatting at the counter, and packs of skinny-jeaned skaters. Breakfast not your thing? Perch on a classic chrome-ring barstool and tuck into mac ’n’ cheese ($8.50), fried chicken with buttermilk biscuits ($10), or chicken-fried steak slathered in country-style gravy.
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