I would like to gently admonish this new yelper that these kinds of reviews are not very helpful. Not like she'll see this, but just in case. Wait, what, yelping since 2006 and this is what she is flooding the new reviews board with "good Brtsh food" as the entire review?
Do you guys ever hit up New Roma? Some of their bread is really good! Very yeasty. And it's half off after like one or something? This fluffy yeasty bread for 1.30 was a nice alternative to my usual 10 pound, five dollar, almost-expired loaf of sourdough wheat walnut from Sacramento Baking Company. Sac Baking Co's cost is really spiralling out of control and their bread doesn't last for long. The other day at Safeway they had some on the shelf that had expired three days before. I still buy it though. I don't know why. Because it's purple?
New Roma? Yeah, baby. Fave Sunday morning thang used to be when I picked up a fresh bottle of Bariani at the freeway market, then hit Temple for a go cup and then swung by New Roma for a loaf of Italian. These days I have a meeting of this ad-hoc group I belong to on Sundays that tends to cut into my bread+olive oil+balsamic=bliss. Boo hoo.
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Michele S.'s reviews are great because they get to the point. There's no overwritten and hackneyed drivel like "my dear faithful readers." And at least she doesn't use "I" every three words or so in her reviews. Yay for Michele!
ReplyDeleteI agree - as soon as I read her Pronto review that simply said "great food", I headed straight there. I mean, what else do you need to know?
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before you rush out the door miller, let me counter with my own review of pronto, which is neither hackneyed nor overwritten, in contrast to my normal style
ReplyDelete"gross food"
Heh. I just came on here to tell you about Michelle S.
ReplyDeletei work at new roma :) i love the bread so so much. and the sweets. i had to go on a diet because after working there for 6 months i had gained 50 pounds (i'm not exaggerating). so i've lost like 20 of that so far... and i miss the cannoli still...
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I buy donuts for my office at New Roma sometimes and they are everybody's favorite donut shop. They also have fantastic cinnamon raisin bread, and my dog likes the donut holes.
ReplyDeleteMostly I like to watch all the little kids come in and spend their lunch money on donuts, though.
she doesn't use "I" every three words or so in her reviews
ReplyDeleteI like that I like food that I buy at , I think, the store. I eat it all. I like to eat. I'll never eat eye.
That's harder to do that you'd think.
New Roma has amazing donuts, and they're worth the price even if one goes early and pays full price. I haven't had anything there that wasn't great. I consider them a mandatory stop when I'm passing through the neighborhood. And like so many other places in downtown with the name "New," there used to be an old Roma Bakery, I think it was at Third and L, displaced by redevelopment.
ReplyDeleteNew Roma's mud pies are great, especially when you put them in the freezer for a while. And then eat them on a hot day.
ReplyDeleteamanda
When I was a kid I went to a summer program at that school across from New Roma's & I love that it still smells exactly the same!
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yeah, actually the Roma Bakery opened in 1917, and was on 3rd. it moved in 1934 and became New Roma. every time it has changed ownership, a part of the deal is what we call "the book". it has all the original recipes from the 1917 opening, which we still use. we also still have the same bread slicer from the 1934 opening :)
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