Original Pancake House to open on former restaurant site

Posted on May 17, 2017
Original Pancake House operates a location in Champaign. (Google Street View photo)

By Howard Packowitz

NORMAL – Bloomington-Normal will soon have another restaurant option for breakfast, and it will be located at the site of the former Wild Berries restaurant.

The Original Pancake House will take up half the building which will soon be under construction at 115 S. Veterans Parkway in Normal.

Co-owner Brian Landstrom tells WJBC he expects the restaurant to open its doors in November.

Most, if not the entire menu, will be breakfast food, although Landstrom said the Pancake House might serve some lunch items. He said daily business hours will likely be from 6:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

The restaurant will seat 150 people in addition to an enclosed patio that will seat another 50 people.

Developers have not revealed what will open in the other half of the building.

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