Amelia Farm and Market — Local services in Beaumont

TLDR: I'm a Figgy-Piggy...

We came to visit after hearing about it and seeing it online. My wife is a big fan of country style cooking, and I don't think we could have found a place more to her liking.

So we looked over the menu and ordered a few things on suggestions thanks to Google. We shared a Queso with chips and salsa. My wife had a chicken fried chicken breast with mashed potatoes and Mac&Cheese. I enjoyed the famous Figgy-Piggy sandwich with fries and a side Salad.

The Queso was sharp, fresh, and flavorful. Uniquely seasoned and thick, and though there wasnt much in the bowl they brought us, they gave us enough for the chips. It came with a good salsa which tasted Mexican not tex-mex. It's good, but entirely overshadowed by the queso. Queso was not like others, and might be my new favorite. I understand the reason for the the price behind this appetizer, but my other favorite Queso is half the price and the same size, and a part of me still thought about that even though i was enjoying this. I was pleasantly surprised that the pico was freshly chopped, and it was a perfect blend of Tomatoes, onions with a light sprinkling of light Jalapeños. For 4 dollars more we could have gotten brisket in it, but we enjoyed it so much as it was, that I'm not sure brisket would have made it better.

The Caesar dressing in my salad is home-made very atypical in a restaurant that looks and feels like country cooking. It was pungent with the taste of anchovies. It was personally a little too creamy for me, almost to the point of mayo, and a little bit went a long way with the Salad, but it was tasty. I got 2 servings of it and only used 1. It was a pleasant surprise as most places like this still tend to use store bought dressings and fall short in their salad menu thinking them unimportant.

So my wife's chicken was beautifully battered and an impressive golden brown all around. The breading was crispy and light, and crunchy. The chicken inside was surprisingly juicy for breast meat. She was very pleased. Mashed potatoes were mashed there and had bits of the skin included, which makes good texture and adds plenty of flavor to the meal. The macaroni was a little plain, not much cheese of which to note, but it was nicely buttered and you could tell it was prepared there by hand. It still tasted great, just not my cup of tea. The gravy included with the chicken surprised me. I don't care for white gravy, but it was Jalapeño flavored and surprisingly good. It was an excellent touch for the chicken, and I expect many enjoy it.

The Figgy-Piggy sandwich is not just my favorite sandwich now, but possibly one of the best things I've ever tasted. It's not just the ham and fig preserves, but the way the ham is cooked, thick cut and steamed but also grilled throughout with some lightly crisped edges. The swiss was good and out of the way. I was worried the sandwich would be dry, but they are very generous with the preserves and they don't disappoint. Preserves are warm, and I don't usually enjoy them that way, I tend to like cold preserves and jams, but it all works in this toasted crispy sandwich.

Their french fries were tasty, but could have been a little more crispy. The thicker the fry, though, the more trouble a place usually has making them crunchy and keeping them that way but they tasted great and were perfectly salted and simple.

We shared a banana pudding, which has not made withbold bananas as is typical, but made with fresh thick slices of banana. They evenbused fresh home-made whipped cream, which was better than excellent. It felt like it was over too quickly, though, as the bowl was rather small, though itbwas comparatively inexpensive to yhebrest of the food.

The food itself was expensive, but I like to say that you get what you pay for, and this place is a perfect example of excellent quality food. We got paper straws with our drinks, which I enjoyed seeing. We certainly will be going back, and though my wife loves Chicken fried chicken, she had to admit that next time she was going to get the...

Way too overpriced for the bland, poor effort put forth by this hipster-bait fruit stand posing as a restaurant. The cheesesteak sandwich ($15) was slices of tasteless, unseasoned meat on some strangely plastic bread, completely drowned in queso-like utterance that has only the congealed, sticky nature of old queso but none of the cheese or pepper flavors. The chopsteak was completely flavorless and overcooked to almost rubber, then coated in some half-decent brown gravy to "tart it up". The brisket bbq plate ($15) should hang it's head in shame and go back to whatever non-Texan state it crawled up from (yes, I know it's "local", but it doesn't taste like anything a Texan would serve and call bbq). The brisket slices were about 80/20 (with the 20% being meat, and the 80% being greased fat blob), and barely shown salt and pepper, much less any real flavor. The bbq sauce they sent out should be put on trial for murder, as it eviscerates any hopeful concept that you are somehow eating bbq. The sauce tastes somewhere between peppered anchovy tomato slices and the burnt plastic wrapping of a tomato-flavored dog chew. The side salad had the most flavor of any of the food I ate there, and was actually pretty decent comparatively, mainly from the Green Goddess dressing, but not enough to ever bring me back. The queso I ordered (not even the same queso as the nightmare they drowned my cheesesteak sandwich in) would have been my favorite, but for $9 to get a bowl smaller than what you get anywhere else for $5, and only a tiny handful of chips, I wanted to find the person in charge of menu pricing and commit verbal atrocities. If you are a hipster douchebag who want to blows tons of money on being bored to death by a plate of overpriced, overhyped, underwhelming food, you couldn't pick a better place except maybe J. Wilson's. If you want good bbq or food that has some semblance of flavor or seasoning, go anywhere else. Even the flies preferred the unsweet tea over any of the plates of food. I only gave two stars because the restaurant was mostly clean (and smelled of unpleasant chemical cleaning odors in the dining room throughout the whole meal) and the waiters didn't stab us....

Beautiful location with good food, but the wait-staff regularly under performs. Been here several times. Went with my 9yr old and 6 of my co-workers this last Saturday at noon. By 1:15 after just receiving appetizer of chips and queso, I had to ask for my kids Southern salad (minus eggs and cheese) and my breakfast brisket bowl to be packed to go and for the check because I had a 1:30 hair salon appointment. About 1:25, I received the check. I got up to leave at 1:30 and she finally brought my bag of lunch and two of us zipped out to salon. 4 of the others also started getting their meals and she said the last two we're on their way. Nope. By the time they received them, everyone else was completely done. My two meals cost me over $40, including the auto tip for having 8 folks. I had to refill my own tea after My coworkers and I kept requesting refills to no avail. Got to my appointment late and the salad had both egg and cheese, which my daughter cannot have. There were no utinsels in bag nor did salon have any for us so we we're both without our lunch. Total waste of $. My co-workers complained about theirs coming so very late and we're only charged the high tipping fee for crappy service for those two meals instead of the full price of meal. Horrible service for such a beautiful place and decent food (when it comes out...