The Ricotta Hotcakes from Sydney Food by Bill Granger are easily some of the best pancakes in the world, as JenJen from Milk and Cookies found out when she made a batch for herself. The pancakes manage to have a tremendous amount of flavor and an incredibly light texture all at the same time. In all honesty, the pancakes need nothing on them, but original version served at bills in Sydney is heavenly and comes with sliced bananas and honeycomb butter, which is a compound butter made with crushed honeycomb candy (like the inside of a Violet Crumble) and a touch of real honey. JenJen just used real honeycomb to top hers for an interesting, but simple, twist. Whatever you use, you won't regret trying the recipe for a second.

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.