text: Pamelas is an abomination of a breakfast place that represents the worst of everything However to make up for the food being awful you will have to wait on line for minutes and then dine in cramped and uncomfortable seatingnnIt is for some reason unfathomably popular The best thing on the menu is their crepelike pancakes which are nicely crisped on the edges They are nicely crisped on the edges because they are cooked in a disgusting margarinelike substance that always leaves me personally feeling a bit ill The coffee is forgettable the eggs are passable the bacon is inevitably chewy which right there should because someone to be marched out to the firing squad and their lyonnaise potatoes are insultingly limp and like the pancakes soaked in margarinennIf you are dragged here by your friends find new friends If you cannot do that then try to get one of the pancakes that come with some sort of whipped or sour cream Not because they are better mind you but because at least the cream will help balance the fat that comes from a machine with fat that at some point in its history came from a cownnBetter alternatives to Pamelas in Pittsburgh on the nice end Coca Cafue or even Square Cafue on the greasy spoon end either DeLucas or JoJosnnFrankly I think I would rather eat the completely boring and institutional breakfasts at Eat and Park than go to Pamelas again At least they have heard of this thing called butter