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The Best Pancakes in Sydney to Indulge in
These are the best pancakes in Sydney for the next time your cravings kick in.
Sydney’s best pancakes span deep-dish American diner stacks at Park St Diner in the CBD, cloud-light Japanese soufflé at Air Lab in Cabramatta, and the city’s most-imitated ricotta hotcakes at Bills. Be it buttermilk pancake stacks topped with ice cream, hotcakes, fluffy pancakes or crêpes, one thing’s for certain, magic happens when milk, flour and eggs come together to create breakfast heaven.
No matter what style makes your taste buds tingle, covering all sweet and savoury concoctions, this guide rounds up the stacks our editors keep going back for, the best pancakes in Sydney.
In This Guide:
- Best Classic Buttermilk and Ricotta Hotcakes in Sydney
- Best Old-School American Diner Stacks in Sydney
- Best Japanese Soufflé Pancakes in Sydney
- Best Beachside and Eastern Suburbs Pancake Spots
- Best Pancakes for Dietary Needs and Savoury Cravings
- Frequently Asked Questions about the Best Pancakes in Sydney
Best Classic Buttermilk and Ricotta Hotcakes in Sydney
Sabah Eatery
Sabah’s pancakes are the sort that make you wonder why every stack doesn’t come with soy-spiked maple syrup. The burnt butter maple has just enough salty, nutty depth to balance the sweetness, while a generous cloud of fresh mascarpone cream keeps things feeling light. Fluffy, golden and very easy to demolish, these are pancakes with a little more going on than your average stack.
Suburb: Silverwater
Price Guide: $$
Cuisine: Cafe, Brunch
Best For: Date night, brunch
Blackwood Pantry
When you’re southside or beachside, make a beeline for Blackwood Pantry and make the most of their all-day breakfast menu.
Equal parts inventive and mouthwatering, the blueberry and ricotta hotcakes with fresh blueberries, cultured lemon butter and cinnamon-infused maple syrup are delectable. Take the team’s recommendation and order them to share after your meal.
Suburb: Bondi and Cronulla
Price Guide: $$
Cuisine: Cafe, Brunch
Best For: Group dining
Bills
The ricotta hotcakes served at Bill’s are the stuff of legend. With banana and honeycomb butter accompanying the fluffy cakes of your dreams, you’ll question every supermarket-bought pikelet of your youth and vow never to sink to such lows again.
Team your brekkie with a white peach bellini with prosecco and white peach purée or a signature Bills spiced bloody Mary to make it a brilliant boozy brunch.
Suburb: Bondi Beach, Darlinghurst, Double Bay and Surry Hills
Price Guide: $$
Cuisine: Cafe, Brunch
Best For: Breakfast, brunch, locals
Harrys Bondi
As pretty as a picture, Harry’s blueberry ricotta hotcake is plated with such care that you will honestly feel you’re committing an offence by tucking into it… not that that would stop us.
Topped with summer berries, toasted coconut and vanilla bean double cream, the ricotta hotcakes sell like… hotcakes… you can always round out the best pancake fix with a cold-pressed juice.
Suburb: Bondi
Price Guide: $$
Cuisine: Cafe, Brunch
Best For: Breakfast, locals
Best Old-School American Diner Stacks in Sydney
Park St Diner
Brought to us by the Grounds team, Park St Diner brings full-blown American nostalgia to the CBD, right down to the coffee mugs, chrome finishes and syrup-drenched plates. The hero order? The Honey Butter Big Pancake… a single, deep-dish-style pancake that lands somewhere between a classic serve and a soft, fluffy cake.
Golden, thick and deliciously rich, it’s designed to be drenched. Add strawberries and cream (absolutely essential), then pour over maple syrup and let it seep right through the warm centre. Trust us, the size is no joke so it’s best shared, and you can always add a cheeky side of bacon if you’re looking for a savoury fix, too.
Suburb: Sydney
Price Guide: $$
Cuisine: Cafe, Brunch
Best For: Group dining, weekend plans
Happyfield
Happyfield does pancakes the way a good diner should: big, fluffy and impossible to stop eating. The stack comes with Pepe Saya butter and real Canadian maple syrup, letting the quality of the ingredients do the talking without drowning everything in sugar. They’re light, not stodgy, and dangerously easy to finish — so really, ordering a second plate isn’t the worst idea.
Suburb: Haberfield
Price Guide: $$
Cuisine: Cafe, Brunch
Best For: Group dining, brunch
Valentinas
Serving up old-school American diner stacks, Valentinas hotcakes are the real deal. Order up to three in a stack with Canadian maple syrup, butter and icing sugar. Add shaved chocolate, blueberry or bacon if you feel so inclined.
We recommend ordering the Tina classic which gives you the chance to sample a little bit of everything on the menu. Scrambled eggs, bacon, home fries and a pancake? Be still our beating hearts.
Suburb: Marrickville
Price Guide: $$
Cuisine: Cafe, Brunch
Best For: Group dining, breakfast
Best Japanese Soufflé Pancakes in Sydney
Gram Café & Pancakes
Japanese cult chain store, Gram Café & Pancakes is one of Sydney’s best cafes for fluffy pancakes. Sydneysiders love the taste of the much-loved soufflé pancakes that light up Instagram feeds far and wide.
The coveted pancakes are as light and soft as clouds, stacked three pancakes high and drizzled with syrup, or filled with creamy, decadent fillings. Now, that’s our kind of breakfast.
Suburb: Chatswood and Sydney
Price Guide: $$
Cuisine: Japanese, Dessert bar
Best For: Weekend plans
Air Lab
Light as air and proud of it, Air Lab is the hotspot bringing Japanese souffle pancakes to the sweet tooth folk of Sydney. Creating flavour combos that have us drooling already, choose from Snickers, pistachio, matcha and Nutella coffee, or keep things simple with maple syrup and butter.
The sugary fun doesn’t stop at pancakes, with soft serve parfait, puff choux pastries loaded with creamy fillings, milkshakes and frozen brulee cheesecake, making us think we may need to visit Air Lab more than once.
Suburb: Cabramatta
Price Guide: $$
Cuisine: Japanese, Dessert bar
Best For: Date night, weekend plans
Best Beachside and Eastern Suburbs Pancake Spots
Porch and Parlour
Renowned as the place to be seen brunching on a Saturday morning in North Bondi, Porch and Parlour dishes are just begging to be ‘grammed.
The green pea pancake is always popular, served with a poached egg, whipped feta, housemade seed mix, avocado, and cherry tomatoes. You will be left feeling mighty virtuous without forgoing the best pancake fix, though if you do prefer a sweet treat, the fresh ricotta pancakes with honey cream hit the spot.
Suburb: North Bondi
Price Guide: $$
Cuisine: Cafe, Brunch
Best For: Weekend plans, brunch
Indigo
An Eastern Suburbs’ all-day-brekkie haunt, sprawled across the ever-chic Transvaal Avenue, Indigo serves up some of Sydney’s best stacks. Their pancakes with caramelised banana, maple syrup and vanilla whipped mascarpone are heaven on a plate and team swimmingly with an iced tea or chai latte.
Suburb: Double Bay
Price Guide: $$
Cuisine: Cafe, Brunch
Best For: Breakfast, locals
Best Pancakes for Dietary Needs and Savoury Cravings
Speedos Café
This North Bondi cafe is all about clean eating and gluten-free delights – but that’s not to say they don’t have a decadent pancake stack on the menu. Making its way into our top picks of pancakes is the caramelised banana pancakes, topped with poached berries and seasonal fruit, pistachio crumble and maple syrup that will leave you satisfied without the guilt.
With a relaxed vibe and beach vistas, there’s no better place than Speedos to enjoy your Saturday morning pancake feast.
Suburb: North Bondi
Price Guide: $$
Cuisine: Cafe, Brunch
Best For: Gluten-friendly, solo dining
7th Heaven
This bright cafe has a rather extensive menu, packed with floral-topped delights, catering to dietaries of all kinds. Vegan bacon, anytone? But it’s the taro pancake that has us coming back again and again. With a deliciously chewy texture, rum-infused banana jam and burnt butter caramel sauce, it’s indulgent but oh-so-worth it.
Suburb: Kirrawee and Sutherland
Price Guide: $$
Cuisine: Cafe, Brunch
Best For: Dietary-friendly, families
Frequently Asked Questions about the Best Pancakes in Sydney
Air Lab in Cabramatta and Gram Café & Pancakes, with locations at Chatswood Interchange and The Galeries, are two of the most reliable spots for Japanese-style soufflé pancakes in Sydney. Both serve the pancakes stacked and jiggly, with a range of toppings from matcha and Nutella through to classic maple syrup and butter. If you’re after that specific light, airy texture rather than a denser buttermilk stack, these are the venues to start with.
Park St Diner’s Honey Butter Big Pancake in the CBD is designed for sharing and pairs well with a side of bacon for a more substantial, savoury-leaning breakfast. Valentinas in Marrickville offers a similar American diner approach with its Tina Classic, combining scrambled eggs, bacon, home fries and a pancake on one plate. Both suit anyone after a heartier, all-in breakfast rather than a lighter sweet stack.
Speedos Cafe in North Bondi is built around clean eating and gluten-free options, with its caramelised banana pancakes a standout that doesn’t feel like a compromise. It’s a relaxed, beach-adjacent spot well suited to anyone after a lighter pancake option without sacrificing flavour. Always confirm specific dietary requirements directly with the venue, as menus and preparation methods can change.
Bills is the benchmark for ricotta hotcakes in Sydney, served with banana and honeycomb butter across its Bondi Beach, Darlinghurst, Double Bay and Surry Hills locations. Blackwood Pantry offers a similar style with blueberry and ricotta hotcakes across its Bondi and Cronulla venues, finished with cultured lemon butter and cinnamon-infused maple syrup. Both are strong options if a lighter, fluffier hotcake rather than a dense stack is what you’re after.
Bondi and the eastern suburbs have the heaviest concentration, with Harry’s Bondi, Porch and Parlour, Speedos Cafe and Indigo in Double Bay all within a short distance of each other. The southern suburbs are also well served, with Blackwood Pantry and 7th Heaven both operating across Cronulla, Kirrawee and Sutherland. For something further west, Air Lab in Cabramatta is worth the trip for soufflé pancakes specifically.
Loving the sweet brunch inspo with our hit list of the best pancakes in Sydney? We have plenty more of where that came from. Take a quick look at our favourite bottomless brunch spots. Bon appetit!
