Oliver’s Café themed around Dickens’ Oliver Twist
Image by Grubstreet First Look, Strange Concept… When someone told me that Oliver’s Café in Redondo Beach was themed around the Charles Dickens novel Oliver Twist, at first I didn’t believe him. Could there really be a restaurant in the South Bay where the staff dressed as English orphans and the manager was costumed as Fagin? Luckily, they didn’t go that far, but the restaurant is festooned with posters and memorabilia from the Broadway hit, the movie versions, and every other adaptation of the story. I have seen other dining establishments with a theatrical theme, but can’t remember one so completely devoted to all the permutations of a single work. The menu does not offer the workhouse gruel that features in a pivotal scene in the original, but then again, if Oliver the orphan was dining on Sonoma rack of lamb with feta stuffed tomato or pistachio-crusted sea bass, he wouldn’t have needed to run away to London and Dickens wouldn’t have had a story. Do the servers a favor and don’t ask for a coffee refill with the line, “Please sir, may I have some more;” they must have heard the joke plenty of times by now… Oliver’s Cafe, 6300 S. Pacific Coast Hwy. Redondo Beach. 310-375-5481…
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