IHOP

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IHOP's Chula Vista location at 1206 Broadway sits inside Plaza Chula Vista between Palomar Street and Oxford Street, extending the national pancake chain's 1958-founded menu to the Broadway corridor. The buttermilk pancake batter—mixed from a proprietary flour blend—anchors a breakfast menu that includes Cinn-A-Stack pancakes, eggs Benedict variations, and a build-your-own omelette bar, a morning-meal range that shares the Chula Vista breakfast market with the European-and-Mexican pastry line at Hans & Harry's Bakery on Third Avenue. Lunch and dinner expand to country-fried steak, grilled Atlantic salmon, sirloin steak tips, and the chain's Big Breakfast Burrito stuffed with scrambled eggs, bacon, sausage, and pepper-jack cheese. A gluten-free pancake option uses a rice-flour base developed for the national menu, and the Broadway location's late-night service fills the same post-dinner window that draws traffic to Homestyle Hawaiian's plate-lunch counter elsewhere on the corridor. Each omelette is folded from a three-egg base whisked with a splash of buttermilk pancake batter for added loft, then filled and rolled to order on a dedicated flattop station.