Derek W

Review of Bricks and Birch

Bricks and Birch is one of my favorite restaurants...

Bricks and Birch is one of my favorite restaurants in the entire Inland Empire! All of the food they offer - pizza, salads, pastries, coffee - are all delicious and use high quality ingredients.

The pizzas are all wood-fired in a brick oven and have a perfectly crispy yet still chewy crust. I usually order 1 pizza and 1 pastry to split between me and another person and the total comes out to around $20. You can even order half-half pizzas but they'll charge at the price of the more expensive pizza. Some of my favorite pizzas are:

-Mushroom brie: sooooo good but I'm probably biased because I love mushrooms & brie.
-Rocket man: comes with prosciutto, arugula, burrata, and pine nuts. It's a great choice and you can't go wrong with this one.
-Thai pie: a unique pizza that tastes kind of like pad thai on a pizza. Even though it has both sweet chili & peanut sauces, they weren't overpowering.

Their pastries are also really good and I really like their cheesecakes.

For their coffee, they actually use Stumptown coffee beans. Stumptown isn't a local roaster, but it's still a high quality one. I've had a lot of coffee both here and at Augie's close by, and I actually think they're comparable. Interesting fact about me: the first cappuccino I had here was so good that I started getting into espresso and even purchased an espresso machine.

Overall, this is a great restaurant and you should definitely try a bit of everything here!