Timothy's, The Restaurant in Creve Coeur 3-26-2022

 I'm not sure when this restaurant opened, but I think it was during the pandemic...which is very brave of them.

It is in a old strip mall by a Schnucks on Olive Blvd.

The restaurant is small but nicely decorated.  The first room has the bar and is dark.  It only has a few tables.  The main dining room is lights and has nice big windows.  This room maybe has 10 tables.  So, it's still pretty small.  We were seated at a small table for two but we were lucky that while we were dining, no one was at the table next to us.  

The menu is small.  They have one steak, one chicken dish, one fish dish, etc.  

We each had a cocktail.  I tried their "Winter Cosmo" and it was very good.  They took a cosmo, took out the cranberry juice, added a lot of fresh lime juice and berry liquor.  

We weren't going to get an appetizer but decided on a warm cheese pot with bread and apples.  It was OK.  The cheese was just kind of blah.  It was warm and all.  The bread had been lightly oiled, salted and charred.  But the cheese needed to have more zing or something.  It was just warm and neutral.  

Mike got the mac and cheese with added chicken.  I was afraid it was going to be the same cheese as our appetizer.  He said it was not.  It was fine.  He took over 1/2 of it home.  Anna ate it for lunch the next day.  

I got the scallops.  Wow, I had forgotten how expensive sea scallops are.  This was $35 for 3 scallops.  That's more than steak!!  They were salted and dusted with smoked paprika and then seared.  They were on a edamame mash (which is a little weird...it was like they had put a bunch of edamame through a food processor.  I kept looking at them, they were green, and expecting them to taste like avocado cream (my brain was playing tricks on me), but they didn't.  They kind of tasted like a starch (potatoes) but blaher), surrounded by a corn broth (this too was weird, it was really thin (like a broth) and I expected it to have a really big tasted and it totally didn't.  It was just like vegetable broth with a little bit of corn taste), there was roasted corn kernels on top.  Overall the dish was a little odd, but the scallops were divine!!  They were cooked perfectly and I really enjoyed the paprika on them. (I even took 2 photos of this!!) 

  

Since Mike and I were going to The Fox after dinner, we were looking for a dinner and dessert that didn't fill us up so much we wanted to sleep.  My dessert was perfect...one tiny (golf ball sized) scoop of tangerine sorbet.  Mike got a little Key Lime Brule.  Both were light and perfect. 

 

They were out of the wine we asked for with dinner, so we both had a glass of the craziest named wine "Plungerhead."  Look at the bottle!!  It was good and not very expensive.

So, I think Timothy's is a nice place to try.  They have such a small menu that unless they change their menu (which I will check for online) every season or so, we probably won't be back.  If they DO change their menu, I think they have a decent chef and I'd come back and try things off their new menu.