By Drunken Noms
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I started with the Fig and Goat Cheese Salad featuring assorted greens, sunflower sprouts, cucumber, tomato, red onion, goat cheese, and black mission fig dressing. It also came with two pieces of flatbread seasoned with garlic and herbs. This hits all the right notes. The dressing is sweet, the goat cheese is pungent and creamy, and the red onion provides a sharp bite. I’m not much of a salad eater, but I order this to start my meal every time that I visit the restaurant.

On my first visit, I tried the Pesto Shrimp Flatbread featuring a tomato sauce base, mozzarella, shrimp, red onions, artichokes, three herb pesto, and asiago cheese. I love shrimp and I love pesto, so I was surprised when I didn’t like the pizza. The three herb pesto was lacking in flavour resulted in a bland pizza. I will won’t be ordering their pesto pizzas in the future.

On my second visit, I tried the Fennel Sausage and Blue Cheese Flatbread. It featured a tomato sauce base topped with Italian sausage, caramelized red onions, oyster mushrooms, blue cheese, and spring greens. The balance of flavours here was perfect. In every bite you would get the pungentness of the blue cheese, the sweetness of the caramelized onions, the saltiness of the sausage, and the pepperiness of the arugula. And the oyster mushrooms weren’t lost amid the other flavours. They actually may have been my favorite part. The flatbread also had the same pleasantly chewy crust of all their flatbreads. I would definitely order this again.

The food is usually pretty good. However the shrimp pesto pizza was a bit of a dud. The restaurant offers a meal in a family-friendly setting that is different from your regular chain restaurant fare. I’ll probably limit my visits to those when I’m coming with small children, but I’m pretty sure I’ll be back fairly regularly.

Rocky Mountain Flatbread Company 

4186 Main Street, Vancouver, BC

Drunken Noms is composed of two bloggers 'Drunken Master' and 'Food Wench'.  – www.drunkennoms.com