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How to find good crêpes
A crêpe is a very thin pancake cooked on a large flat griddle, folded around a filling. In Brittany, savoury ones are made with buckwheat (galettes) and sweet ones with wheat flour.
What separates a good one from a bad one
- Made to order — Spread thin on a hot round griddle and filled in front of you.
- Thin and lacy — Crisp edges, tender middle.
- Buckwheat galettes — Nutty, savoury buckwheat crêpes are the sign of a Breton-style crêperie.
- Simple fillings — Butter and sugar, lemon, Nutella, ham-egg-cheese. Overstuffed crêpes are soggy.
- Cider — Breton crêperies serve dry cider. A sign of authenticity.
What to order
- Galette complète — Buckwheat with ham, egg and cheese.
- Butter and sugar crêpe — The test.
- Lemon and sugar — Classic.
- Nutella and banana — Popular.
- Salted caramel — Breton-style.
Where to find Crêpes
Crêpes is mostly found at dessert shops, so that is where to look. Open listings put 9,709 of them across the US, and these are the cities and campuses with the most.
Cities with the most
New York, NY 188 Chicago, IL 107 Houston, TX 100 Las Vegas, NV 96 Los Angeles, CA 93 San Diego, CA 61 San Francisco, CA 57 Philadelphia, PA 55
Campuses with the most within a mile
NYU 77 New School University 67 Baruch 63 The Graduate Center 49 Touro University 47 FIT 45
A few to start with
- Fabipops — New York, NY
222 Broadway Fl 19, New York - Nuts On Clark Carmelcorn At Union Station — Chicago, IL
500 W Jackson Blvd, Chicago - Chubby Dips — Houston, TX
1100 Louisiana St, Houston - Waffelato — Las Vegas, NV
707 E Fremont St, Las Vegas - Snowya — Los Angeles, CA
123 Astronaut E S Onizuka St #103, Los Angeles - Extraordinary Desserts — San Diego, CA
1430 Union St, San Diego
Counts are listings in Overture Maps open data (September 2026), counted by the town in each address. Independent places only in the examples above, and they are a starting point rather than a ranking.
How Savor Scout looks for it
The search reads for crêperie, buckwheat, galette and made to order, and favours specialists over brunch menus with a crêpe option.
Looking in a particular city?
Each of these opens Savor Scout with the location already set, so you can say what you want and it searches from there. It covers 1,000 US cities in total — these are simply the largest.
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