Farmer Browns

25 Mason St
San Francisco

I've been to Farmer Brown's on a few occasions to have a drink with the girls (they make such wonderful drinks!) so I decided that since I was coming home for four days I would pick a spot to go eat with everyone. The reservation was all ready for us and our spot in the restaurant was a bit away from everyone else and that was lovely (as was our very pretty waiter - who Inna was trying to pimp either me or Shana out too). Since I was in a "soul food" restaurant I went with the fried chicken and the mac n' cheese (mainly because mac 'n cheese is always a happy food). I wished there were more greens on the plate because they were so delicious and the amount of chicken (three pieces) and mac n' cheese was just right. The food was also great as left-overs the next morning! I would most definitely come back here but more then likely for drinks then a meal - a wee bit more expensive.

Esperpento

Tapas are always a great food. And Esperpento's tapas were so-so on the tapas scale (the top being the tapas place in Santa Cruz that closed down, with the tapas place in DC in Chinatown coming in second). A lot of the reviews on yelp consist of yay for good food and nay for service. Tonight for Sarah's birthday dinner, we had the best waitress ever. She was wonderful and I was more then happy to pay to automatic included tip for out group. The food, like I mentioned, was so-so. I heard a lot of good things about the patatas bravas and the garlic shrimp. Maybe I'm just really not used to the salt content in restaurant food beacuse everything was a bit more salty then I liked. And I was a bit disappointed in the patatas bravas - they were almost a spicy bland. The paella was excellent (though to spicy) - the rice was the perfect consistency. One other large draw back is the restaurant is uber-loud. This is not a place for a first date or a group larger then four people.