Rosemary and Thyme Review: Order the Potatoes

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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