Lousy service, salty food, needlessly crowded, and an overly ambitious menu

36 reviews for Thyme Cafe

The service is consistently excellent, and the kitchen is VERY accommodating of dietary needs.  Call ahead, and you can even have Gluten-Free Crab Cakes or Meatloaf!!
It the kind of local place I want to go back to again and again....and do.

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• RIP Dawn Viens.  as likely Thyme.
  
  Thyme was closed this afternoon when I went there for lunch.  At the front door was a sign with flowers that said RIP Dawn Viens.
  
  I did a Google of the name to find that the chef/owner David Viens is clinging to his life after what looks like a suicide attempt.     This is not bs, nor is a lie Google it yourself.

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  9/22/2012

  The owner cooked his wife Dawn for four days there. When he became a suspect he jumped off a cliff but survived. What a bizarre story!

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The Cook and his Lover

On Tuesday, Calififornia restaurateur David Viens went on trial for allegedly murdering his wife, Dawn (though he maintains it was an accident), and cooking her (that part was intentional).

It started in 2009, over beer, bread and lemonade at a California Pizza Kitchen. The Los Angeles Times reported that at some point after dinner, the couple got into a fight that ended with Viens binding his wife's hands and feet with duct tape -- which he told police he'd done twice in the past to prevent her from "driving around wasted, whacked out on coke and drinking." Viens then fell asleep. He told Los Angeles County Sheriff's Sgt. Richard Garcia:

The next morning, "I woke up. I panicked," he said.

"Why — why did you panic?" Garcia asked.

"She was hard," Viens said.

She was hard because she was dead, as Viens quickly realized. To get rid of the body, the chef cooked it in a vat of boiling water for four days and drained the waste in a grease pit at The Thyme cafe.

via Salon.com 9/21/12 2:59 PM