An exterior can do a lot for making an appealing restaurant. While Pufferbelly Restaurant is attached to a slowly dying Amtrak station, the exterior of the building does a lot to draw you in.

It’s a perfect mix of old school charm and new school home style that’s actually very appealing if you’re not looking over the run-down Amtrak station to see it.

The exterior gives way to a quaint home-style interior that feels like it’s out of a different era. While it’s a little overly spacious and never feels busy, the interior is decorated with things you’d find in your grandma’s kitchen as well as various train memorabilia.

Pufferbelly is from the same folks that own the Starvin’ Arvin’s chain across the Western Slope. The food, while not quite the same, is very similar between the two. My omelette was a homogenous yellow-orange blob covered in a ton of cheese. It was buttery, meat-filled and could fit perfectly in the Deep South. I have yet to have a heart attack and never got sick.

The sides are incredible, three sides per order. There are pancakes the size of plates. Unlimited plate-sized pancakes. If you want to stuff your face with the hunger only a poor college student can know, this is a good start. The cinnamon rolls are second only to Dream Cafe in downtown. That’s high praise, considering Dream Cafe has the best cinnamon rolls in a world.

Drinks are standard fare. Good, cheap coffee and an assortment of carbonated beverages. Pufferbelly also doesn’t care if you’re oddly specific in your water choice. They offer a wide variety of citrus fruit and even honey to mix into water.

The service was solid, and the price point is fantastic: a potentially unending meal for $12 after tip. There are very few sit-down restaurants, not using cat meat, that can match that price.

If this review seems incredibly over-the-top, it fits the style of the restaurant. It’s a wonderful, guilty pleasure of a restaurant. It pretends to serve food, but it is really feeding a nearly insatiable hunger. Everyone (with half a brain) knows comfort food is an incredibly unhealthy but equally as wonderful vice. Pufferbelly wraps up anything a college student would want into one building. A very nice looking building.

For the third time: Unending pancakes bigger than your face. Why are you still reading this? Go now.