farmerbrown; 25 Mason (Turk);415-409-3276;www.farmerbrown.com;info@farmerbrownsf.com;dinner from 5:00p.m. nightly until midnight;Executive Chief is Jay Foster who provides soul food at its finest and gives a New Orleans meets California spin at this Tenderloin rookie restaurant sourcing local, organic produce from Bay Area African-American farmers. The rough-hewn bar is dominated by a long bar where trendyloin hipsters can find comfort food with mint juleps and down home classics like fried chicken, gumbo, seafood jumbalaya, po'boy of the day, BBQ pulled pork sandwich, crispy cornmeal catfish, Columbia River (Oregon) steelhead trout. There's even an antique bicycle in the restroom!
credo: farmerbrown is about supporting local and african-american farmers, using organic, biodynamic and/or sustainably raised foods (whenever possible). our focus is southern food a gift that is often misrepresented. we love our food and want you to love it too, please let us know what you think. happy hour all night on sundays and mondays!
Saturday night was hopping with mad-as-a-march-hare lunacy! My date, a Groucho Marx lover, and I waited in the mezzanine lounge of the Hotel Metropolis lounge (www.personalityhotels.com) for 1/2 hour (complimentary drinks and appetizers provided) where I've attended the Sneak Peek Literary Lounge on Monday nights (6-8), a weekly author reading featuring brand new books, plays, poetry, short stories. (Contact John Templeton at (415) 265.9455 for the calendar.
What are your favorite Grouchoisms? Here are Jay-Jay's:
Military intelligence: contradiction in terms.
Outside of a dog, books are a man's best friend, inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men. Other 999 follow women.
I find TV very educating. Every time someone turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
(on hair) Why should I pay $10 for something I can see in the bathroom for nothing.
Time flies like a banana, but fruit flies like a banana.
A man's only as old as the woman he feels.
Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.
Don't ever put ice in my drink. It takes up too much room.
Ever since they found out Lassie was a boy, the public has believed the worst of Hollywood.
On Victor Mature: Never to the movies when her tits are bigger than heroines.
I've had a wonderful evening but this wasn't it!
EPITAPH: Here lies Groucho and LIES and LIES and LIES.
Here are my favorites from farmerbrown but remember start working there, and in a month you'll gain 10 lbs. Guaranteed, like Jonathan, our Coos Bay, Oregon server.
Gumbo with seafood, chicken and andouille sausage (made with jalapenos;vegetarian option available).11 (Pompae, our neighbors, loved this dish).
farmer's green salad with parsnip crisps and lemon vinaigrette 5.5. Delicate flavor, plentiful, a great job!
Fulton valley fried chicken: new orleans style with southern greens and macaroni and cheese, is the BEST chicken in the city. Finger lickin' good and beats Colonel Sanders by a mile. 16.50
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED: crispy cornmeal catfish w/southern greens and candied yams. 16.50
columbia river steelhead stuffed with herbs and bacon over clementine salad. 21.50
The sides are plentiful, including sauteed collards, baked white beans, angel of biscuits (order of 5), roasted veggies (brussels, parsnip, carrot). 5.
All of the entrees comes with homemade jalapeno cornbread with maple butter, a great treat!
Desserts include banana pudding, bourbon pecan pie, chocolate beignets, strawberry-rhubarb pie. 6. Try my favorite: bourbon pecan pie, which I tasted after a literary event one rainy Monday night!
We left the restaurant in a rush! What's so great about Spring break, and March Madness? Jay-Jay came out with a Leno quip: A chance for commoners to get drunk like Prince Harry. This was the week the Prince came out of a bar, tried to punch a photographer and fell into a gutter. Lucky his fall was broken by George Michaels lying there. (Jay Leno, The Tonight Show, 3/26/07)
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