None of the other appetizers or salads I tasted, though, was worth a second bite. Pepperoni lovers can’t go wrong ordering the pepperoni pizza, either, covered with a monster portion of that spicy sausage. One of the stars of the new menu is the goat cheese pizza, which is unusually restrained for this place: a light sprinkling of goat cheese and bacon bits complementing the topping of red onion and Roma tomatoes. Avoid the gooey, overboard four-cheese pizza and the sticky-sweet Thai pizza, with its jam-like peanut sauce, and you should be happy with what you get. Their bubbly, well-kneaded crusts have an appealing hint of ash from the wood-fired brick oven. Carbo-happy side dishes like a corn- and pea-laced pasta salad (accompanying pizza, for goodness’ sake).Īctually, the pizzas are a good starting point, because they’re probably the most reliable items. Enormous stuffed crepes lined with melted cheese and filled with meat.
A monstrous half-pound burger with trimmings galore. It may serve the very largest portions in the Southland. But despite the good cheer and intentions, more effort is needed before most of these dishes will appeal on any level but portion size.įor now, that’s what Wild Thyme gets by on. Yost is clearly trying hard he has just put in a new menu that is more intelligent than the old one. This makes sense-one of the owners here is David Yost, from the family that brought you the Shakers chain and used to run the Bouzy Rouge Cafe, an innovative wine bar/restaurant down in Newport Beach.
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A small market and bakery case sit near the front door, selling all-American balsamic vinegar and tiramisu.Īlong the same lines as that culture-shock market, the menu is a mix of American-style comfort food entrees, such as a grainy turkey meat loaf, with wood-fired pizzas and complex pastas, plus a few non-controversial Pacific Rim shots. The narrow tables are covered in butcher paper. The interior is dominated by bright, almost futuristic wallpaper covered with red flowers, which contrast in curiously seasonal fashion with green booths the exact color of a certain popular toothpaste. Of the three, the cheery, low-slung place called Wild Thyme is the most resolutely American. It’s getting to be cafe row up here in thoroughly modernized downtown, what with Crocodile Cafe, Market City Caffe and now Wild Thyme Cafe and Bakery, all within shouting distance of one another.
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