Foodie Universe's Restaurant Reviews

Restaurant Review #241, Roscoe's House of Chicken'n Waffles, Pasadena

2011-04-10T00:10:00.000-07:00

Carol C. Special, $8.50 The Pasadena location of Roscoe's is situated in an old Pizza Hut that has been painted white but retains its unmistakable architecture. Inside, Roscoe's also appears to have retained Pizza Hut's decor of exposed brick and wooden curlicue chairs. Directly next door is a relatively new KFC. The smells from the dueling fried chicken establishments intermingle outside, and

Restaurant Review #240: Golden Tiger Chinese Restaurant, Simi Valley

2011-03-14T21:00:00.000-07:00

Mongolian beef Golden Tiger is an unmemorable Chinese restaurant in Simi Valley. We tried two dishes: the Mongolian beef and kung pao chicken. The beef was fatty and unflavorful, and the dish had lots of of green and white onions--filler that goes straight to the trash can, since we don't like to eat onions. The kung pao chicken fared slightly better since it was heavy on the meat and used the

Restaurant Review #239: Blue Table, Agoura Hills

2011-03-06T21:14:00.000-08:00

Italian sub - $8.99 I love Blue Table. It's so pristine that if it weren't for the constant stream of customers, I'd gladly eat off the burgundy-stained concrete floor. Everything, from the gourmet dry goods to the display-case salads to the plated sandwiches, is gorgeous to look at. In total, there are 16 varieties of sandwiches (two of which are vegetarian). We tried the Italian sub, which

Restaurant Review #238: Bread Basket, Camarillo

2011-02-05T21:00:00.000-08:00

Bread Basket is a well-known Ventura County bakery that creates sandwiches, breads, pastries, and cakes, including wedding cakes. It was the search for the perfect wedding cake that sent us there after everyone we mentioned wedding cakes to asked us if we had been to Bread Basket. Bread Basket is known in particular for its fresh fruit cakes that use blueberries, strawberries, blackberries, and

Restaurant Reivew #237: Thai Kitchen, Simi Valley

2011-01-12T21:00:00.000-08:00

Papaya Salad Thai Kitchen has some pretty great Thai food, and not just for Simi Valley standards (North Hollywood isn't that far away, after all). I tried my three favorite Thai dishes--papaya salad, pad kee maw with beef, and pad Thai with tofu to see how they measured up. The papaya salad was the one dish that didn't impress me--for the price, I felt that it wasn't a lot of food. The

Restaurant Review #236: Daphne's Greek Cafe, Westwood

2010-10-21T21:00:00.000-07:00

Creative Commons licensed Flickr photo by Made in Neverland Imagine a Greek version of Baja Fresh and you’ve got Daphne’s Greek Café. Don’t be fooled by the “café” moniker; there may be tables outside, but this is not a nice, breezy sidewalk café. Sure, the food is tasty, quick and affordable, but the atmosphere is only slightly above fast-food. Indeed, they

Restaurant Review #235: Skiff's Cakes, Simi Valley

2010-08-28T22:57:00.000-07:00

Cupcakes Skiff's is a small, family-owned bakery in Simi Valley that sells cupcakes and special-order cakes. The cupcakes come in numerous flavors and are all filled in the middle with wedding cake fillings. Most have chocolate or vanilla buttercream icing. Cake and filling combinations include red velvet with cream cheese, white cake with strawberry mousse, vanilla cake with vanilla bavarian

Restaurant Review #234: Olivios Bistro, Simi Valley

2010-08-05T21:30:00.000-07:00

Lobster ravioli - $17.95 Olivios Bistro is a new Simi Valley restaurant located in the Albertsons shopping center on Madera. We decided to try it because they were offering a gift certificate on Restaurant.com for $25 off $50. Bruschetta - free! The restaurant was nearly empty on a Saturday night, which is often a bad sign. However, with the place being new and trying to lure customers by

Restaurant Review #233: Firehouse Cafe, Simi Valley

2010-07-27T21:00:00.000-07:00

California Fireman omelet with hash browns - $7.75 Sitting in Firehouse Cafe, you'll feel like you've been transported out of Southern California and into a friendly Midwestern city--say, St. Louis. There's zero pretense at this affordable, no-frills breakfast and lunch joint. The flooring is charcoal gray industrial carpet, the chairs are standard-issue black metal with padded vinyl seats, and

Restaurant Review #232: Saddle Peak Lodge, Calabasas

2010-07-17T21:00:00.000-07:00

Cream of mushroom amuse bouche Saddle Peak Lodge, named after the rock formation it sits under, has been around for more than 100 years in various incarnations, including a general store and a summer resort. Tucked away in the hills of Calabasas, sort of on the way to Malibu via Las Virgenes, you'd never know the restaurant was there if you weren't following a set of directions to it. That

Restaurant Reivew #231: Corner Bakery Cafe

2010-07-11T18:00:00.000-07:00