{"id":100505,"date":"2025-12-19T01:44:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T01:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/100505\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T01:44:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T01:44:06","slug":"review-doubting-thomas-can-convert-anyone-into-a-breakfast-burrito-believer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/100505\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Doubting Thomas Can Convert Anyone Into a Breakfast Burrito Believer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\">In recent years, Southern Californians have witnessed some <a href=\"https:\/\/la.eater.com\/2023\/9\/22\/23879980\/best-morning-bakery-pastry-case-los-angeles-friends-family-photos-inside-croissants-bread\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">outstanding bakeries<\/a> open throughout the region. But longtime pastry chef Naomi Shim has been consistently cranking out some of the region\u2019s best baked goods and daytime eats at <a href=\"https:\/\/la.eater.com\/2018\/5\/10\/17340016\/doubting-thomas-naomi-shim-historic-filipinotown-open-inside\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Doubting Thomas<\/a>, a sunny cafe on the border of Westlake and Historic Filipinotown. As the morning progresses, Shim\u2019s team refills display cases with danishes, banana bread, coffee cake, and croissants while delivering strong coffee drinks alongside filling breakfast sandwiches and rice bowls. Throughout the years, Doubting Thomas has become a solid neighborhood staple on Temple Street near Rampart Boulevard, likely due to its signature dish that summons the hungry: a pork shoulder breakfast burrito.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\">The room feels relaxed, easy, and comfortably casual as families and groups dine together throughout the day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\">Doubting Thomas is a first-come, first-served joint. Amazingly, the line moves quickly, and the tables magically open up when needed. Weekends see increased wait times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In recent years, Southern Californians have witnessed some outstanding bakeries open throughout the region. But longtime pastry chef&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[28829,48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":{"0":"post-100505","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-dining-reports","9":"tag-la","10":"tag-la-headlines","11":"tag-la-news","12":"tag-los-angeles","13":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","14":"tag-los-angeles-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}