The spark that started the pancake boom that still has people lining up
Kuroneko has loved visiting cafes since his student days, and pancakes are his favorite food. Here, we introduce the cafe that sparked the pancake boom and still has long lines, which Kuroneko loves to frequent.
When I started visiting cafes, the pancake boom hadn't arrived yet, but pancake specialty shops had already started popping up here and there. I think these shops were the base for the spread of the pancake boom.
First up is Coffee Tengoku, which opened on Roku-ku Street in Asakusa in 2005. Its pancakes are carefully baked on copper plates, and it quickly became so popular that queues formed.
The following year, in 2006, Pancake Mama Cafe VoiVoi opened in Sangenjaya. This unprecedented style of a stylish cafe specializing in pancakes was featured in many cafe books at the time, and people began to come from far and wide to eat pancakes.
Finally, Eggs 'n Things, which was founded in Hawaii in 1974, and bills, which was founded in Sydney, Australia in 1993, arrived in Japan. The pancake boom began around the time that Eggs 'n Things Harajuku opened in 2010 and bills Omotesando opened in 2012, and Harajuku and Omotesando were even called pancake meccas.
Many new pancake shops were opening around that time, but two of them, Chaka in Kitasenju, which opened in 2010, and Rainbow Pancakes in Harajuku, which opened in 2011, became extremely popular by creating pancake batter that had never been seen before.





