Pulled Pork Pancakes, with Jack Daniels Maple Syrup

Even Guy Fieri was wonder-struck.

Red Wagon’s Brad Miller offers pulled pork pancakes with Jack Daniels maple syrup at the Eastside café.
Photograph by: Arlen Redekop, PNG

When the energetic BBQ-loving Guy Fieri discovers your restaurant, and then  features it on his hit Food Network show, Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, it’s  rather like finding a pot of gold at the end of the culinary rainbow, because it  not only puts your eatery on the map, it means a flood of new customers to test  the fare.

And if Fieri is right, and he usually is, the food is so good that the place  stays on the map.

One of the reasons they keep coming back to The Red Wagon Cafe on Vancouver’s  east side, after Fieri and his film crew visited a year ago and then aired the  show in December, has a little something to do with a house specialty called,  and we’re not making this up, Pulled Pork Pancakes with Jack Daniels Maple  Syrup.

That’s right. Heart attack on a plate. Best hangover cure ever. Food porn  with a side of whiskey.

Or, as Fieri noted while sampling the prodigious pile with chef/owner Brad  Miller, it was a diner dish rather unlike anything he had seen, or eaten, in the  six years he has been sharing funky food joints with North American viewers.

It’s a simple enough concept: Three dense pancakes alternating with two  layers of house-smoked pulled pork, all of it swimming in Jack Daniels maple  syrup with a couple of pats of butter on the side, as if butter could possibly  make it taste any better.

And while it may look intimidating, especially if you are worried how much  strain your bathing suit bottom can handle, you’ll have worked your way through  the stack before you can even begin to count the calories. But be warned: It’s  called Jack Daniels maple syrup because that’s all that’s in it, and it’s as  fragrant and potent as moonshine, which means you’ll start feeling drunk by  about the third mouthful.

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