There's a lot of things I found difficult about this place, but the food made up for every difficulty.\n\n Getting inside is hard. Traffic is insane on that street. If you're coming at it from the direction of Green Tree, you won't know that there's a parking lot for Pamela's on the other side of the building, but it is there. Try there first, because there are signs warning you not to park in other businesses' parking spots if your destination is Pamela's. Must be a common problem. The parking lot is a bit cramped, and I have a feeling we got lucky getting a spot. There's some street parking, but I don't recommend that. When we did get seated, I got a show: right outside, an old lady trying to get out of a parking spot out front repeatedly hit the vehicles in front of and behind her, and tied up traffic for 20 minutes. It was good fun.\n\n So we get to the door and all I see are the backs of people. We take a deep breath and walk in, and miraculously, we are instantly spotted by the hostess! She asks (yells) for our name and how many, and put us on her clipboard. We try not to get in the way of more people coming in, but it's tough. My solution was to hang out next to the cashier, looking like a trainee and probably making him uncomfortable. But it was all over in -5 minutes when our name was yelled and we squirmed through the crowd to a little table inches away from other little tables full of people. It's incredible how many tables they fit in there. I ran out of hot sauce at one point, and all I had to do was nudge the stranger to my right and ask if I could swipe hers. I didn't even have to get up! \n\nNow it's cash only and there's no ATM, so we were on a budget cuz I only had like 12$. So come prepared. I had 2 eggs, bacon, and the famous lyonnaise potatoes, and my husband had pancakes. We got all that for under $12 plus left a 20% tip. I wanted to try everything on their menu, cuz it all looked good, and everything on the tables around me looked good. The food we ordered was delicious and well portioned. \n\nWith the amount of people packed in that place, I expected the wait time to be long and the service slow, but it was quite the opposite! Everything was prompt. Waitresses were busy, but they got it all done. \n\nSo overall, despite the parking hazards and close quarters, Pamela's is a cool place. I want to go back when I have the cash to try an omelet!
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