Fish and Farm
San Francisco, CA 94102
Phone: (415) 474-3474
12/16/2007 Posted by tertiarydog
Let's get it out of the way that the service was good. The folks serving us did a nice job and were very attentive. So, one would think that this restaurant would have some special assimilation with the farm or use products used by local farms, but it's not true. Thoughout dinner, we were trying to figure out what exactly this restaurant was trying to carve out for itself as a special place. The cold soup we were given to open up the meal was a puree of celery root and pear, but all of us agreed that it had a fishy odor. We found the sardines to be good - but lacked something with flavor and this is possibly in the way they were prepared. They were pan sauteed and lacked anything reminiscent of their cousin's preparation in the Mediterrean. Possibly throwing them over charcoal would have helped. The waiters urged us to try the fish and chips - a specialty. Good, but not special. I would have rather had this at some pub. The fries were fresh and properly salted. The salad- pretty much as good as boxed salad from Whole foods with a very light and nice dressing, but clearly overdressed. The salad, while so simple, was disappointing. No one was impressed with this restaurant in our party. The restauranteurs were nice enough. The blue walls and awful pleather seating only made you feel as if you were in some bad scene in a movie from the 60's. A few farm murals and pieces of farm equipment on the walls only reminded you that it was the only assimilation to the farm theme that we could figure out. The fish part of the menu lacked originality. Desguising a western black cod as a sablefish lacked originality. Supposedly all the ingredients arrived fresh, but the menu didn't qualify where any of the ingredients came from so it left us with a vacant feeling about what this restaurant was all about. The bottom line is that the food was good, but nothing special. The wine list was average at best. The wines by the glass were pedestrian.
Pros: accessible, unpretentious
Cons: very average and dysfunctional menu
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