Hotcakes Emporium Pancake House & Restaurant 11915 Pendleton Pike, Indianapolis, IN 46236

"I've been eating breakfast with my family for the past two years at this cozy restaurant. The staff are friendly and welcoming. The older lady at the registration is always teaching me a new word in Spanish every time I visit this place. The service is not bad, I don't have to keep asking for water. They know how much I love water, lol. The food is great and affordable. I've never paid over $30 for breakfast for 2 adults and a toddler (of course we share). I only gave it 4 stars because the gluten-free pancakes aren't as good as they were last year. The quality has changed, and they don't look appealing at all. They actually look undone with a weird aftertaste. I wouldn't get the GF pancakes for those of you who are going for this purpose. I also recommend not going anytime after 1pm."

"We chose this place because my nieces and nephew wanted to check out a new place they've never been to since I'm visiting. We walked in and were immediately taken to our booth. The restaurant has an extensive menu with lots of choices of breakfast and lunch items. It took me a while to try to focus on something to get. There were several items that I wanted to try from the breakfast and lunch section. I chose the Hungryman Skillet, my nephew had the pancakes with sausage links from the Just For Kids section. My nieces had the Jalapeno Cheese Burrito and the Spinach, Bacon, and Swiss Omelete. The Hungryman Skillet was delicious with hash browns, onions, green peppers, ham, bacon, sausage and country gravy with two eggs any style on top. I chose to have my eggs sunny side up. The pancakes I sampled from my nephew was delicious. The service was great, our server and other servers frequently checked up on us asking how our meals were and topping off the coffee. I'll definitely try this place out again when I'm back in Indianapolis."

"The first time being there. Atmosphere and the service was top notch. The reason I gave the food 4 stars is it was good, but it could have been heated up a little more. Probably just sitting in the window waiting on the rest of the order to be done. Food did have a great taste though. We will definitely go back."

"Quality has gone way down and prices have gone up. This time, I ordered the pumpkin pancakes and was shocked to find they aren't pumpkin at all. They are just pancakes with pumpkin puree dumped on top. GROSS!!! Are you kidding? The name is HOTCAKES Emporium. Shouldn't they specialize in pancakes (hotcakes)? We used to love it here. Not anymore. We are done. Don't waste your time.. IHOP is better and cheaper."

"I have been to this restaurant at least 50 times, and not once have I had any complaints about the food. My go-to meal is the Belgian Waffle with fruit, and not once have I had a problem with it. Sadly, these past two times I’ve been to HotCakes, the waffle has been different. The first time, the waffle was grainy and seemed to be made of pancake batter instead of waffle batter, but that was the only problem. This second time on the other hand, the waffle was cold; the butter wouldn’t melt, the appearance of it looked like it was made yesterday; it was dark in color and not “lively” if that makes sense, and for some reason, in the batter there was cinnamon. Waffles don’t have cinnamon! I’m not sure if they recently changed their cooks but they need to change them again. It seems like when it comes to waffles, they’re cutting corners on how they serve them, and it’s extremely disappointing since that’s the only thing I get there. I’m really hoping they go back to how they were, but until then, I’ll continue to be disappointed. First time - first time it’s different (waffle, peaches, and eggs) Second time - second time it was different, and cold (just the waffle)"