Clementine, on Ensley Ave. in Century City, is a neighborhood standby. Locals and visitors bask in the sun at sidewalk tables, devouring salads, sandwiches, and bake goods composed of beautiful, seasonal produce that would make Alice Waters proud. What do I order? The Freshest Cobb Salad, dotted with thick cut smoky bacon, hunks of blue cheese and avocado, chicken, and egg, followed by an apricot-ginger scone, light and flakey, dotted with perfectly sweet apricot morsels and chewy ginger crystals. Get through the imminent, harsh California winter with a bowl of the creamiest old fashioned tomato soup, THE BEST tuna melt, and a cup of Clementine's perfectly rich and decadent hot chocolate topped with homemade marshmallows. Good enough to make me pine for a cold day. Ok, not really.
Retro postcards advertising April, Clementine grilled cheese month.
April might be long gone, but Clementine also has barbeque fridays every friday this summer!
Yummy beverages include Intelligentsia coffee, ginger-limeade, and moroccan mint iced tea
Cobb salad with chicken, avocado, thick sliced bacon, hard boiled egg, and cherry tomatoes with blue cheese dressing
Deli salads include heirloom tomato and burrata, curried cauliflower, black-eyed peas and wild king salmon, roasted beets, summer succotash with shrimp, and a gorgeous seasonal fruit salad with blackberries, nectarines, and strawberries
Last, but not least, the apricot ginger scones are to die for
[strawberry shown above, because the apricot ginger were long gone]
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