Have you eaten at Kiss the Cook in Glendale Arizona yet? If not, you really need to drop in and see them some morning and have one of their best-loved meals, their buttermilk pancakes. Those pancakes are really something else and Kiss the Cook is one of the first places I head for whenever I return to Glendale from Japan to work on the Glendale Shopper.

We are a family owned restaurant located in Glendale Arizona. We make all our food from scratch and our buttermilk pancakes are well worth traveling 100's of miles for!

We sometimes have plates that are not on our menu such as the BBQ omelettes that have proven to be a real popular breakfast. Antiques on display lend warmth to an already friendly atmosphere. And of course, they are all for sale. well almost all...

We have a problem on our hands!!! Our on-the-menu-once-in-a-while BBQ omelettes are proving to be too popular. We would like to put this on our regular menu but we make this from scratch and requires a lot of preparation. Such being the case, we do this when we happen to have the time and the ingredients on hand.

However, we will try to inform you via this page when we plan to have this on the menu again for a few days.

We got disappearing dishes!!! Some of the dishes we use are so cute, the customers buy them right out from under the food....almost. Yes, our dishes are for sale! If you fall in love with the one you are using, your spouse is using, let us know and we will let you know if it is for sale or not. Most of them are so don't be shy.

However, we do ask that you do not grab a customer's plate on a neighboring table without first taking proper steps. First make certain that he or she has finished their meal. Second, sudden moves, such as grabbing their plate without informing them first may lead to unexpected reactions. Third, ...............................

Even the heat can't stop these cyclists from enjoying The Cook's Combo! Quite often on weekend mornings you can find a group of cyclists gathering at Kiss the Cook to enjoy a well-earned break as well as a great breakfast booster!

Glendale has some great biking trails . If you are from out of state and will be attending the 2008 Super Bowl here in Glendale, be sure to bring your bicycle with you!