Breakfast

Honestly, pancakes in and of themselves are pretty great. Whether you’re starting from scratch or prefer the convenience of a boxed pancake mix, they’re affordable crowd-pleasers you can whip up at a moment’s notice.

Breakfast has long been described as the most important meal of the day, because starting your work or school day on a full stomach is essential for success. But what, as a Lord of the Rings character portrayed by Scottish actor Billy Boyd once famously asked, about second breakfast? 

Repurposing ingredients from existing menu items into new innovations is one of the old tricks in the fast-food book. (Taco Bell, I’m looking in your direction!) But taking an ordinary hot dog and turning it into a breakfast sandwich? It sounds like a pretty unconventional idea – but Shake Shack has been trying it.

Blueberries are the perfect addition to any breakfast, delicious in everything from pancakes to yogurt parfaits.

I love Waffle House. I love that it is open 24 hours. I love that, no matter where you go, you can be assured that the menu will be the same. I love that you really have to work hard to spend $20 on breakfast for two, and that during natural disasters FEMA uses the Waffle House as a scale of how bad things are. (A closed Waffle House means it is really, really bad.)

Liquor store, building supply store, cannabis dispensary, taco stand—there is not a great deal, you might think to yourself, standing at the corner of Sherman Way and Varna Avenue in the San Fernando Valley, to distinguish this little slice of Los Angeles from any other.