Rosemary and Thyme Review: Order the Potatoes

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Written By Amy Suto
The Crescent Heights vegan salad bowl with avocado and walnuts at Rosemary and Thyme in Los Angeles

Some restaurant advice needs three paragraphs of context. This one doesn’t: at Rosemary and Thyme on Pico, order the potatoes.

Rosemary and Thyme is quite good across the board — and the potatoes are excellent, the kind of crispy-outside situation that vanishes from the table while everyone pretends they’re still deciding.

What to Order at Rosemary and Thyme

Our table, from the receipt: the Crescent Heights vegan salad (my lane — substantial, not a side pretending otherwise), the La Brea chicken parm for the non-plant-based contingent, and the tots with garlic aioli. We were there on a working lunch with one of our Make Writing Your Job writers, and the food kept getting voted onto the agenda.

The Verdict on Rosemary and Thyme

  • Best for: Long lunches; tables split between vegan and very-much-not
  • Order: The potatoes. Also everything else, but the potatoes.
  • Where: 5662 W Pico Blvd (Google Maps)

Part of my best restaurants & coffee shops in Los Angeles list — a convenient two minutes from Paper or Plastik if you’re building a Pico Boulevard day, which I endorse.

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