Getting our fill of neo-soul food at Farmer Brown in San Francisco

San Francisco has some incredibly creative and hip restaurants to offer and the past few weeks Stephanie and I have started a weekly attempt at giving some of them a try. Since I’m working up in the big city each day and Stephanie is still teaching preschool in Palo Alto, we try to meet up at my office at least once a week so that we can broaden our horizons a bit when it comes to going out to eat. We’ve also found that this is a great way to bring together a few of our new friends(and their friends) so that we can get to know each other a little better, all while trying out some new food and having a few cocktails. Needless to say, we’ve both had a great time with it.

Tonight the crew consisted of me, Stephanie, Cameron(who I work with) + his girlfriend Lauren and Jacob(who I also work with) + two of his lady friends, Savannah and Melyn. Jacob, whom I like to think of as quite a San Francisco hipster, wanted all of us to check out a place called Farmer Brown, who’s specialty is soul-food with a California twist, or as they like to call it - neo soul. One of the first things that comes to mind when eating at a place like this is the fact that there is nothing even comparable to Farmer Brown in Indianapolis. I’m not sure if this is because Indianapolis is too small to support a super-niche restaurant like this or if San Francisco is just that freakin’ cool, but the fact is that there is nothing that I could even compare Farmer Brown to back in the good ol’ Hoosier state.

Overall, the atmosphere was filled with twenty-something socialites who were chatting it up with one another as they sipped cocktails and draught beer out of glass jars and ate more than their fair share of biscuits, cornbread and fried chicken. The food at our table included some fried okra, sweet potato steak fries, shrimp and veggie jambalaya, fried chicken, mac and cheese and some tasty pulled pork sandwiches. The only thing better than the food was the conversation as we tried to remember theme songs from old TV shows from the days of our youth, talked about politics and reminisced about crazy Halloween stories that happened last weekend.

It was just another great night out with our friends out here in San Francisco and hopefully we’ll keep it alive and check out somewhere again next week. Honestly, this has been way too much fun not too. If you want to see what other people think of Farmer Brown, check out their page on Yelp when you get a chance.

Posted By Hup | November 6, 2008 | Filed Under great friends, new/random experience

 

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    2 Responses to “Getting our fill of neo-soul food at Farmer Brown in San Francisco”

    1. Mitu on November 10th, 2008 8:22 pm

      Although skeptical at first, I was also pretty impressed by Farmer Brown’s; it’s certainly unique to say the least!

    2. Eating at Delancy Street Restaurant and challenging Steph’s typing skills : Hup and Steph on November 13th, 2008 12:33 am

      […] Last night Stephanie and I rounded up some more people up in San Francisco for our weekly dinner-get-together-thing that’s were trying to do on a regular basis. If you can think all the way back to a week ago you might remember us visiting Farmer Brown for the last go ’round. We had a ton of fun last week and this this time turned out to be more of the same, which was great. […]

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