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FLAGSTAFF FEATURE: Wildflower Bread Company
7:56 PM
So I realize that Wildflower Bread Company isn't a specific Flagstaff Feature, like some if not all of the restaurants I've eaten at and intend to eat at and want to write about. You can find Wildflowers throughout different places in Arizona, and I'm sure in other states, as well. But I still wanted to write a feature on them for a couple of reasons: Their food is exceptionally delicious and it's all-natural.
Unfortunately, while the food is exceptionally delicious, the price wasn't much worth it, in my opinion. But this is coming from a poor college student's perspective. A poor college student who needs to pay tuition, rent, has to buy groceries every month, and is saving up money to buy and tend to a kitten. Put simple: I like things cheap, which is why I enjoy eating in Flagstaff. Most things are cheap. Especially the special hole-in-the-wall restaurants you can find around here that also serve as a great cultural experience.
Of course, that being said, you get what you pay for at Wildflower. You pay the price for well prepared, delicious food of all sorts. You also pay the price for it being all-natural—which ensures that the ingredients are all locally grown, fresh, and also that any animals involved in the process of the making of the food are cared for properly and fairly. So, in the end, I suppose my fourteen dollars for lunch was worth it.
Overall Rating: 8.5/10
Overall Pricing: $5-30
The price rating as listed on actual food review sites is at a range from $11-30, but I decided to lower it to the $5 I made it because after looking over the menu again, there are certain things that are around $3-5. Mainly the pastries are that cheap, and the foods on the breakfast menu. But if you still want to go in for a snack, you won't need to spend too much money, if you're frugal.
Food wise, it was all very delicious, as I've stated before. There are fewer pictures this time because, ironically enough, although my boyfriend Jeremy and myself treated this as a sort of mini-date, we paid separately for our own food. We didn't even discuss what we were going to order—and yet we ordered the same exact thing. We both ordered a sandwich off of the hot menu, that being the chicken parmesan sandwich (which sadly, for me, meant no sharing of the food). Where he got water, I ordered a medium-sized cup of black raspberry lemonade, and added chips onto my order.
The food came out freshly made, and warm to the point it was steaming. My first reaction when seeing this sandwich was, "What the heck, how do you eat this?!" because I'd never before seen a sandwich that...well, you couldn't pick up. I mean, it was pretty obvious from the fork and knife they brought out with my order that I was meant to cut into the sandwich and eat it that way. But still, it was a concept I was unfamiliar with. I also failed to miss the part on the menu that said it was served "open face." Oops. Anyway, it was a delicious sandwich composed of chicken breast on grilled herb Focaccia bread, marinated mushrooms, arugula and Swiss, all covered in marinara with some spinach. Jeremy thought there was too much spinach on the sandwich, but I personally thought it was a nice amount of green to top everything off.
To my order was an added side of chips I paid for, and were they delicious. Crunchier than most potato chips, you could easily tell these were freshly made. There were some sweet potatoes mixed in the batch of chips, as well, in chip form. I don't really like sweet potatoes, so I wasn't fond of the orange chips (which I ended up trying because I thought it was like those Veggie Straws where the orange is carrot-flavored).
The lemonade was deliciously sweet, with just enough tang from the actual lemons. The cashier who helped us was nice enough to talk to Jeremy about what to order, because he'd never eaten there before. She took a lot of time out to actually point things that she personally liked out of each part of the menu. When I ordered, she offered me the same service. She also asked me how much ice I specifically wanted in my cup for my lemonade, which I thought was strange—until she mentioned that there were no free refills. Then I thought it was a seriously kind thing of her to do.
Overall, Wildflower Bread Company really is worth the money you pay for it. But for a broke college kid, I don't plan to go back too often. At the end of our visit, Jeremy and I bought a loaf of cinnamon raisin bread...which was cheaper than actually dining-in. The loaf is huge, freshly baked every day—and it only cost us six dollars. That felt more worth my money than the food did today.
From past experience, though, Wildflower has some amazing soups and salads as well...so I still recommend eating here if you ever get the chance. The natural flavors used in all of their food will leave a popping flavor in your mouth you've probably never experienced before.
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