It's Pancake Day on Tuesday February 21 and what better way to celebrate (other than making our own) than visiting a Newcastle café famed for its pancakes.
The Dispensary on Heber Street is so well-known for them that it even sells its own pancake batter through its website. But that's not all, it's become an internet sensation in recent years due to its Instagram-friendly presentation with plastic syringes injecting sauce into stacks of pancakes and a speciality iced drip coffee that looks like something out of a science class at school.
On the Thursday morning we visited, more than half of the tables were taken. The atmosphere was pleasant enough, and the floor to ceiling windows were covered by blinds that blocked out the winter sunshine, with the inside lit by several hanging lightbulbs and the few rays that had slipped through to the concrete floor.
