The new World Café in Puyallup’s South Hill is a dual-purpose food destination. For the drive-by eater, it’s a fast, casual café with a limited menu of wraps, soups, salads, a few grain-based entrees, and a small breakfast menu of oatmeal, paninis and nutritious pastries. For the time-pressed cook (aka my fellow Puyallup moms), the cafe is a pickup place for Day By Day Gourmet, a meals ready business where frozen dinners can be picked up and stashed in a freezer until dinner is needed.

The company’s mantra is healthy food – nutritious ingredients, prepared with a nod to ethnic flavors. And the concept is helped along by a Northwest healthy eats pioneer – former public television cooking host Graham Kerr, who helped develop the menu (other credentialed culinary professionals also helped with the concept, check the website for details).

Shown here: A Thai chicken wrap, called a trumpette, comes on a sundried tomato tortilla with a smear of garlic scented bean spread, coconut, curry and cilantro marinated chicken and fresh greens inside, and on the side.

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