Best OATMEAL COOKIE - santa monica/venice
Looking for the most delicious traditional oatmeal cookie (soft - not crisp). /Additionaly, nothing against the white chocolate/cranberry cookies of the world, but the taste I need to satisfy calls for old school yumminess.
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ciaobella
Apr 20, 2007 02:02 PM
I'm partial to the Druid Circles from Trader Joes's - though they have raisins in them.
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Okay I know this is weird but I love the ones at Togo's. They're my absolute fave and with a turkey & provolone sub that's a yummy lunch.
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Clementine's "Mrs Miller's cookie" is excellent, and it's chewy; it's got coconut and raisins so I don't know if that's oldschool enough for the OP.
I really like the flavor and satisfying huge bites of the big, fat, crumbly "Colossal" oatmeal-raisin cookies from Bristol Farms, even though they're sometimes a little dry;I can easily see how someone else might not. I also think Victor Benes makes a pretty decent one. (Mrs. Fields used to make great oatmeal-raisin cookies too, but that was in another century, unfortunately.)
And I got no problem with DIddy Reese's either, especially when you make an ice cream sandwich out of 'em, like a made-to-order It's-It.
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I've seen the basic oatmeal cookie at Clementine before, but I did not have it. However, I've never eaten anything from Clementine that I did not love. I don't just like their food, I love their food.
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re: glutton
After reading this post, I decided to venture to Diddy Riese for the first time. (Chowhound staying in Los Angeles by way of Toronto). Gotta say, there is nothing quite like that in Toronto. Cheap and Good. Never would have figured that Westwood Village would be home to such a creation. I went for the M&M Cookies with Espresso Chip ice cream. $1.25. Even if they did raise their price.... it's a bucks 25. You can't get a decent cup of java for that money anywhere.
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re: kmoore
PaulF
Apr 19, 2007 11:13 AM
They actually recently (fairly recently) raised their prices.
And apologized for it.
It's sort of an institution.
There are better cookies, perhaps, but few that are a better value.
There are a couple of other places in the Village that have that "it's a tradition" feel to them. I've been going to them for so long, I know longer know if they are good, I just know I like them.
In addition to DR, they are Falafel King, Stan's Donuts and Sepi's Subs. Anyone who went to school in Westwood likely knows them all well.
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re: PaulF
Maybe Stan's was the originator of "gourmet" donuts - they were into elevating the simple donut back in the late 70s-early 80s?
Falafal King - one of the first places to gain popularity in the Westside by cooking up falafal and shwarma - they get flamed now, but I'd still eat there...
Diddy Riese - too many all-nighters would have ended in crash&burn without a stash of their cookies in my backpack...
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mollyomormon
Apr 18, 2007 11:49 AM
I have a weakness for the ones in the plastic containers from the bakery at Ralph's! Although I pretty much gave up shopping there during the last strike, I still sometimes grab a package. Definitely get the ones without the nuts.
My favorite ones ever are from Great Harvest, which is a chain of bread stores that don't seem to be too prevalent in southern California.
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mollyomormon
Apr 20, 2007 02:49 PM
I forgot about those. The Costco oatmeal raisin ones are awesome!
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by far the best i've had are at city bakery in the brentwood country mart (on the s. monica border, at 26th )
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