Reuben’s Legendary Apple Pancake

Preparation info
  • Serves

    2

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in

By Richard Sax

Published 1994

  • About

Reuben’s was the legendary Times Square after-theatre hangout for generations of New Yorkers, the place where they tucked into Reuben’s 12-inch apple pancake, along with the famed cheesecake, as a late-night snack. Researching the origins of this archetypal pancake, food journalist Marian Burros was directed to three very different recipes (all of which claimed to be the authentic