Two oatmeal griddle cakes with lacy crisp edges and a melting square of cinnamon butter, no syrup
Since 2010 — Los Angeles & New York

Home of the Oatmeal Griddle Cake

A family recipe Chris Phelps has made since he was four years old. Crisp lacy edges, a soft custardy middle, one square of cinnamon butter — and never, ever syrup.

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Macro close-up of an oatmeal griddle cake with lacy golden edges and a square of half-melted cinnamon butter
The edgeLacy, crisp, almost brûléed on the flat-top.
The butterOne square of cinnamon butter. That's the whole topping.
The batterMolasses-sweetened oats. GF & vegan on request.
The signature

One cake. Four decades in the making.

Chris Phelps has been making these griddle cakes since he was four years old, standing on a chair at his mother's stove. “Mama Salty” never served them with syrup — family legend says she simply refused to mop up after two sticky boys — and it turned out she was right. The molasses in the batter and a melting square of cinnamon butter are all these cakes have ever needed.

They hit the menu at Salt's Cure in 2010, and the lines started wrapping around the corner. By 2017 the griddle cakes had earned their own restaurant. They've been the reason for the wait ever since.

“No syrup. Never syrup.”
Your perfect breakfast

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Every table gets the same question: cakes, eggs, and which of the house-butchered meats? Build yours and we'll print the ticket.

1The cakes — stack of three

2The eggs

3The meat

4The extras

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GRIDDLE'S HOT · 27½ MORTON ST → 714 MONTANA AVE
Oatmeal griddle cakes bubbling on a seasoned flat-top griddle in morning light
Our story

From nose-to-tail to coast-to-coast.

Salt's Cure opened in 2010 on a West Hollywood corner — chefs Chris Phelps and Zak Walters doing whole-animal butchery and stubbornly Californian cooking. Jonathan Gold called the pork chop “a tour de force.” But it was weekend brunch that broke the place: a family oatmeal griddle cake recipe that drew lines around the block.

In 2017, the original storefront was reborn as Breakfast by Salt's Cure — a diner devoted to one perfect morning meal. Santa Monica followed, then the West Village, then Brooklyn twice over. In June 2026 the original WeHo counter served its last griddle cake and the team fired up a new flat-top in Silver Lake the very next morning.

Sixteen years in, the plate hasn't changed: cakes, eggs, house-cured meat. Morning light. No syrup.

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2010

Salt's Cure opens in West Hollywood

Phelps & Walters open a tiny nose-to-tail Californian kitchen at 7494 Santa Monica Blvd. The weekend-brunch griddle cakes start a line that never really ends.

2015

The move to Highland

Salt's Cure relocates to 1155 N Highland Ave, Hollywood — nearly three times the seats, plus a full bar and dinner service.

2017

Breakfast gets its own restaurant

The original WeHo storefront is reborn on May 8 as Breakfast by Salt's Cure — griddle cakes, eggs, and house-butchered meats, morning hours only.

2021

Santa Monica, then New York

Montana Avenue opens in March. In November, the griddle crosses the country to 27½ Morton St in the West Village.

2023

Brooklyn, part one

Carroll Gardens joins at 368 Court St.

2025

Brooklyn, part two

Prospect Heights opens on Vanderbilt Avenue's restaurant row.

2026

Silver Lake takes the torchNew

After 16 years, the original WeHo counter closes June 24 — and the same crew opens Silver Lake at 4348 Fountain Ave on June 25. The griddle never cooled. Days later, the family announced the original Salt's Cure on Highland is becoming a Breakfast by Salt's Cure too.

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Five counters, two coasts.

New York City

West Village

27½ Morton St
New York, NY 10014
Tue–Sun · 8am–3pm
Closed Mondays

Worth the line down Morton Street.

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Brooklyn

Prospect Heights

581 Vanderbilt Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11238
Wed–Sun · 8am–3pm
Closed Mon & Tue

The friendliest griddle in Brooklyn.

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Brooklyn

Carroll Gardens

368 Court St
Brooklyn, NY 11231
Wed–Fri · 8am–2pm
Sat–Sun · 8am–3pm

House-cured picnic ham worth crossing the borough for.

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Just opened Los Angeles

Silver Lake

4348 Fountain Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90029
Daily · 8am–3pm

Sixteen years of WeHo mornings, now firing on Fountain Ave.

Walk-in only — counter service
Los Angeles

Santa Monica

714 Montana Ave
Santa Monica, CA 90403
Daily · 7am–2pm

Tiny counter, big reputation, a mile from the beach.

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Los Angeles
New York
Take it home

The mix. Just add water & eggs.

The Oatmeal Griddle Cake Mix — molasses oats and the cinnamon sugar included, exactly like the counter makes them. Your kitchen, Mama Salty's rules: butter square, no syrup.

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