Ahhh, San Francisco. I have such a love/hate relationship with this city. It's a great city with the views of the water and a great food scene but slowly the city has become a total cliche right out of the show Silicon Valley. Literally the city is full of socially awkward, hoodie/back pack wearing engineers who only want to start about the start-up or app they are working on. It's a bit overwhelming. But there are still pockets of hippie bohemians still flocking around the city. The hippie Southern rockers all seemed to be hanging out at Farmer Brown - a soul food place in the middle of the Tenderloin area, which is quite unique as SF is generally filled with either Mexican or Japanese food.
Louise had gotten us a reservation for 1:30 for brunch which sounded great. The place was packed when we got there. While they have a full brunch menu, the star of the show is their Southern-Soul food packed buffet ($25.95). It's got fried chicken, waffles, biscuit, gravy, scrambled eggs, bacon, grits, catfish, cajun potatoes, succotash veggies, brownies, banana bread, fruit salad and house salad. But when we sat down the waiter told us that they would stop filling the buffet at 2pm, which was 15 mins from when we sat down. WTF?! Who stops brunch smack in the middle of the afternoon - especially on a lazy Sunday? So we rushed over to the buffet to pile on everything that we could on our plate. They still had a little bit of everything but you could tell that it was definitely down to it's last bits. We were also disappointed that they were out of the biscuits and gravy - how can you have soul food with no biscuits and gravy?! Luckily, the waiter was nice enough to sneak into the kitchen and get us a few extra. The food was all pretty filling and I was a big fan of the cornmeal catfish - it was flakey and not too heavy on the cornmeal. The fried chicken was nice and crispy although I would have liked to have gotten a few thigh or drumsticks, as by the time we got there, all they had left were the wings which was a bit thin on meat.
Our friend May got there 45 mins late, so we asked to move to a larger table but it took forever for the waitstaff to figure out what to do with us and when they did find us a table it was smack in front of the live band that was there. Maybe I am just an old lady and despite the guys being kind of cute, I was so not in the mood to have an electric guitar blaring in my right ear during brunch. We quickly packed up our things and asked for the check but apparently that was a pain for them and that took forever too. While I like the idea of live music, it just wasn't what I was in the mood for. If you do want to come here for the buffet, definitely come here early so that you aren't eating the dregs of the pan and/or forced to sit next to the band. Total bill: $30/pp with tax and tip
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