The inexperience of the cooks is apparent throughout every dish.
When you are called 'Stacked' and advertise yourself as serving world famous pancakes it has to be justified. If they are world famous, it's not in a good way. Pay 10.99+ tax for three pancakes they should be remarkably good, at least delightful, at the very least warm. They were not fluffy but sticky, slightly under-cooked and instead of crisp edges you get chewy rubber.
Every variation of pancake is actually just the same plain pancake with a different sprinkle of fruit on top. No infusions. Canadian blueberry, or chocolate chip, or banana pancakes have those ingredients in the batter. They are unwilling to perform this. Could not eat more two mouth fulls and sent it back. It was replaced with complimentary waffles with bananas and strawberries.
The problem continues. The waffles were nothing more than wet sponges in the shape of waffles. The staff suggested the syrup made it soggy. Well that is simply impossible with crispy waffles which seems to be an offensive concept to the cook. Waffle verdict = disgusting mush but graciously the fruit topping was correctly ripe.
Asked about the syrup, the brand... "TCE corporation" - and yes it tasted as industrial as that sounded. The waitress said good syrup was simply too expensive to serve. The water also had an astonishingly bitter metallic industrial flavour. Orange juice was passable.
Eggs Benedict with fried potato browns and fruit side. The Eggs were correctly cooked, but the whole dish was cold. What smacked of amateur and fast food was the unwelcome addition of industrial shredded cheese on top. This took away from the flavour and simply reminded me of Wendy's cheese fries. The tots were cold and overcooked so they were dry and chewy.
The server was pleasant and honest and listened to our feedback.
My advice is that the cooks stop following the corporate cook book and go out to some premiere breakfast restaurants in 5 star hotels or casinos and experience these dishes in top form. I believe Stacked has potential to improve their finesse, but this will only happen with better trained and experienced cooks. Will try again in 6 months to see if anything has improved. read more