Amanda H.
Yelp
Came here on a Saturday night. There a line of people and a 30 minute wait. Thankfully the wait came by quick!
They have a super cute attached bakery/gift store area where you can browse accessories, books, and home wares to buy or pick up some individual mini pies or desserts for friends and family. There was also a super accessible clean restroom inside that area. So by the time I've gotten my restroom break and browsing in, they were already calling our names.
They seated us upstairs where you can see down into the bakery/gift store and along the ceiling walls were hanging bikes as well. They started us with some chewy open crumb bread served with their famous ollalieberry jam. Sweet and tangy.
My served my soup fast, within a few minutes of us ordering. The bowl size is good sized. Their clam chowder was the only thing I didn't like. It's milky but not creamy and tasted too herby with too much parsley. I didn't taste any clams.
I ordered the chèvre beet salad with chicken for entree. It came pretty much as soon as I finished the soup. Honestly, I chose the salad because I wanted to try something unique to them. I wanted chicken but was worried their chicken entree would be dry. Can't count the amount of times I've paid for overcooked chicken. I expected the salad itself to be good but not this good.
I liked it a lot. Salad was topped with candied walnuts, sliced tangerines, sliced green apples, sweet sautéed onions, beets, and cheese with a tarty ollalieberry vinaigrette. And... the chicken? It was grilled but still juicy!
Lastly, for dessert, I got the pie of the month so I could get free a la mode ;). It was peach pie, with blueberry. I wanted to try the ollalieberry pie but I figured it might be similar to the jam. I could be wrong. But, the peach pie was fabulous anyway. I would have preferred full peach though. It had light flakey crust and the pie filling was just right in sweetness. The vanilla bean ice cream was perfect along with it.
Service 5/5: fast!!
Food 4/5: -0.5 star for the clam chowder. And -0.5 star for not sourcing the butter/ ice cream locally, since they tout all their ingredients as farm-to-table
Value 5/5: Proportions just right. No left overs. No over eating. And entrees range from mid 20s-40s. No regrets coming here instead of visiting other more expensive restaurants. Didn't feel like I missed out.
I'll be here again the next time I'm in Cambria. You can eat the free range cows from Hearst here.