Culinary Musings: Urth Caffe
By Mac and Cheese Mair - Tuesday August 15th 2006 |
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Urth caffe
Three locations in losanjealous: west hollywood,
beverly hills, santa monica
Urth Caffe is very losanjealous, but no one would be jealous of their Mac and Cheese because it just stinks. Not literally in the sense that it smells like bleu cheese, but it’s not good. I should have figured that Urth had nothing on Violet when I saw that the Mac and Cheese was on the kid’s menu, but come on, it is Urth Caffe, the purveyor of overpriced sandwiches*. I like eating organic food except when it has no taste.
The best part of the meal was the strawberry and banana plate which I gladly devoured, maybe they complement the bland and tasteless Mac and Cheese with fruit to cleanse the pallet and convince it to think that the sweet and savory combination only enhances the light (aka non existent) flavor of the food.
I don’t remember what the other girls ordered, but I thankfully ordered some Manhattan Clam Chowder which was better than the Mac and Cheese, but still was nothing special, the flavor and consistency of the soup was similar to canned minestrone. (minestrone:chowder? …ed)
The time I went right before I tried the Mac and Cheese I had a wonderful salad accompanying my sandwich, the salad alone with the vinegarette was bitter, but the addition of three candied walnuts made the salad awesome! I wonder if it would break to bank to add four candied walnuts or heck, even five. More candied walnuts was desired but I dealt with all I was given, and it was still good.
*Overpriced because I ordered a simple sandwich and just paid for the meal for me and a friend, a week later I went back to Urth for another gathering and looked and the menu to realize that I paid $12.95 for a simple sandwich that consisted of cheese, tomatoes and grilled peppers.
Overall I love looking at the dessert case and I consider the food okay. It is great to eat organic, healthy, made from scratch foods that are filled with love, but of the few times (roughly six or seven) I have dined at Urth, I never find myself craving anything there.
Urth Cafe is fucking gay. Sorry, but it is.
Agreed, there should be one in West Hollywood, solamente.
The Urth caffe is a beautiful place for after dinner coffee or the perfect ending to the perfect date! Their service is always good. The food is great and healthy , the atmosphere is relaxed. The organic coffee and tea are great too!
The Urth Cafe is so often full of so many beautiful jobless poseurs that it’s hard to get a table to sit at so you can choke down your overpriced salad.
Also, once I sat next to David Hasselhoff there and my friend could not keep her voice down as she stage whispered to me: GOD HE LOOKS SOOOO OLD
the only thing i crave there is the bread pudding for breakfast (sometimes when i need a heavy filling sweet breakfast) or the chicken curry salad, as a salad or in sandwich form, it’s absolutely amazing.
Brendy Bear thinks the coffee is delicious.
Brendy Bear has seen Mike Tyson there twice. Brendy Bear was very happy to see him. There are a lot of celebrities that go there. (Beverly Hills)