Baby, you look fabulous, even after partying all night on the Sunset Strip.

The best way to blast that hangover for good so you can do it all over again tonight, though, is to go out for breakfast. Not eat breakfast, for how do you expect to shimmy your svelte little self into that strappy, form-fitting thing? Go out for breakfast. Pull back your hair and put on your Prada sunglasses. We're getting pancakes in LA.

Now, for the LA-uninitiated, the above scenario might well seem the standard, taking place right in front of The Standard. I mean LA couldn't possibly know how to make a mile-high stack of thick, fluffy, hot pancakes glistening with butter and dripping with maple syrup; and even if it could, no one would actually eat them, right? 

Ha. Uninitiated.

There are lots of places to get pancakes in LA, and not all of them serve paper-thin, fruits, nuts, and flakes tenuously held together with non-fat soy milk and garnished with low-fat air. LA joints know how to make not only plain Jane buttermilk pancakes, but pancakes that are all dressed with everywhere to go: laced with Kahlua and Bailey's, filled with Oreos, or covered with caramel. And the breakfast/brunch set certainly knows how to dive fork-first into a stack. With their Prada sunglasses on, of course.

1. Fresh strawberry pancakes at Bread & Porridge, 2315 Wilshire Boulevard, Santa Monica, CA (310) 453-4941 www.breadandporridge.com  
2. Pecan butterscotch pancakes with banana at Doughboys, 8136 West 3rd Street, Los Angeles, CA 90048 (323) 651-4203  www.doughboys.net 
3. Old-fashioned buttermilk hotcakes at Du-par's, 12036 Ventura Blvd Studio City, CA 91604-2608 (818) 766-4437, www.dupars.com  
4. Hunka Hunka Burnin' Love (chocolate chips, peanut butter and banana with caramel sauce) at Fred 62, 1850 N Vermont Ave Los Angeles, CA 90027-4215 (323) 667-0062 www.fred62.com  
5. Black Magic Pancakes (with Oreo cookies) at The Griddle Cafe, 7916 W Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90046, (323) 874-0377, www.thegriddlecafe.com  
6. Spiced pumpkin pancakes at Hugo's, 8401 Santa Monica Blvd West Hollywood, CA 90069-4209 (323) 654-3993 www.hugosrestaurant.com  
7. Spanked with a little powdered sugar at Lazy Daisy Cafe, 11913 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90025, (310) 477-8580
8. Macadamia nut pancakes at Marston's, 151 E Walnut Street, Pasadena, CA 91103 (626) 796-2459 www.marstonsrestaurant.com
9. Anything you want at Uncle Bill's Pancake House, 1305 Highland Ave., Manhattan Beach, CA 90266, (310) 545-5177