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| - Wildflower was okay. It reminds me a lot of Paradise Bakery (if you put me inside one or the other it would be hard to tell the difference). I'm not a big fan of Paradise, either, but I figured I'd give Wildflower a try. The sandwich I had was a hot pot roast kind of thing (I can't remember the name and they no longer offer it). The ingredients themselves were all fairly good, but brought together, it sounded more like a garage band than a symphony.
I think they try to do a bit too much with their menu and try to throw together a bunch of vaguely fancy or artisanal sounding ingredients just for the sake of the name of the final product. Honestly, with some of the menu items it seems like someone came up with an item name, thought it sounded fancy and unique, and then worked on building a sandwich to fit the name. It'd be like coming up with a great movie title then building a convoluted plot to fit the title: it's going in the wrong direction.
So, basically, it seems like their menu is overly complex. There's nothing wrong with having a dozen ingredients on a sandwich if they go together, but just stuffing whatever sounds pleasant on a sandwich doesn't always work. Plus, their sandwiches are made to order. That's not a bad thing, but when you have so many ingredients on a sandwich, the sandwich will sometimes benefit from being wrapped and chilled for a bit to give the flavors some time to marry (so the sandwich works as a unit and not as a bunch of layers fighting for attention on the palate).
I may go back and try it again. Frankly, this isn't my kind of place, but there are some other things I wouldn't mind trying.
If you like Paradise, you'll probably like this place. I don't like Paradise, so maybe it has ruined this kind of restaurant for me.
Between the two, go to Wildflower. They seem to be pretty much the same, but at least Wildflower is a local chain and not a regional/national chain.
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