The Farmer’s Wife — Restaurant in Fairfax

10 stars, DO NOT MISS. Without exaggeration, the best sandwich I’ve ever had in my life, and overall a lovely experience tucked inside The West Marin Culture Shop (look for the big red barn).

I ordered directly from the Farmer’s (Ex) Wife herself, Kendra, who is warm, lovely and a culinary genius. When I asked about adding protein to the Fruit & Blue, she spoke of how she loves combining flavor profiles (sweet, savory) and recommended adding the roasted fennel sausage. Let me tell you… this sandwich is the stuff of dreams. Pear, apples, the most plump raspberries and blackberries, apricot jam… so many fresh fruits, I lost track. Melted together with salty cheddar, goat cheese, and add in the savory sausage, on perfectly grilled sourdough. OMG.

As if this sandwich was not enough, she served it with a generously sized salad of again, the freshest ingredients imaginable. You might think ‘oh, sometimes places will throw some lettuce/ cherry tomatoes on the side and call that a salad’. NOT HERE! Fresh greens, piled high with beets, cabbage, tomatoes and cukes, apples and pears, snap peas that looked as it they’d just been plucked from the vine… all bursting with color and almost too beautiful to eat.

Lastly, the fermented strawberry soda was the perfect pairing. Sweetened only with honey, perfectly fizzy… I almost always avoid soda otherwise because it’s usually terrible for you, but this was such a treat.

In conclusion: We live in a time when many businesses use the term “fresh, seasonal ingredients“ as a marketing grab. By contrast, eating here feels like a hug. Because only someone who actually cares about you and is thinking about your wellbeing would put in the effort and creativity to source and serve you a product this fresh, this beautiful, this delicious and wonderfully nourishing. As someone who loves cheesy, salty comfort food because I’m human, but also tries to eat in a way that will give me energy and not make me feel awful, and knowing how nearly impossible it can be to find options that check both those boxes… I can’t begin to tell you how much I appreciate this.

Did I mention drinks are by default served in reusable glass jars, and everything else is compostable? The care for the Earth comes through here too.

I was visiting from NYC (where we’re surrounded by worldclass food, but nothing like this!), otherwise I would have lunch here multiple times per week. Instead I will have to look forward to my next trip the the Bay Area - or then again, maybe move there for this reason.😂 If you think that’s a crazy thing to say - have lunch here and...

I had a great sandwich (and an interesting salad that had mild nettle in it) from their food truck years ago, so I was excited to try a brick and mortar location.

They have some really big shoes to fill, with what the creamery provided to the townnand visiting tourists, and even with far west ferments in there, the place is an odd smelling empty husk of its former self.

I got the lamb merguez sandwich, and it was hands down the worst sandwich I have ever paid for.

They use fresh baked rustic sourdough, and they slice it like a loaf of bread for the sandwiches. The crust is so hard. It cuts your gums and hurts bad. The bread had many holes in it too, so all the ingredients and sauces drip out, and the grease from the melted cheese and sausage make the bread fall apart quickly.

They didn't slice the sausage, they left it whole in there, so it's like impossible to bite and when you do, it squishes everything else out.

Yes, it came with an amazingly beautiful and small salad.

There were 4 leaves of spring mix, a radish slice, a fig slice, a blackberry, and a snow pea. There was no dressing, just water. It was amazing that it looked so good and tasted so miserable.

I had to stand and wait for about 5 minutes as they got their stuff together before they could take an order on a Friday afternoon at 12:30, and the staff looked real annoyed I was there.

The atmosphere is that it's the only place to sit outside and eat food from somewhere else.

Bovine bakery has slices of pizza, go there instead.

Look at the fake reviews they have posted on their website.

You can buy good reviews, and it looks kinda obvi...

The Farmer’s Wife in Point Reyes Station has taken the modest, working-class sandwich and alchemized it into a resplendent masterpiece — a gastronomic sonnet, a triumphant opera of flavor and form. What was once the humble province of lunchboxes and hurried bites is here elevated to the realm of high art, where bread and filling cease to be mere sustenance and instead become a revelation of human imagination. . This is not simply eating; it is bearing witness to culinary sorcery. Each sandwich is conceived not as a stack of ingredients, but as a composition, a dazzling tableau where every carefully chosen element harmonizes with its companions. Imagine a chorus of ripened stone fruits — glistening, jeweled slices so tender and perfumed they could have been plucked from Eden itself — set upon perfectly toasted bread and interwoven with ribbons of goat cheese, crescendos of aged cheddar, and the bold, dramatic punctuation of blue cheese. To take a bite is to discover, anew, what the union of discernment and craftsmanship can conjure. And yet, astonishingly, the sandwiches may not even be the pinnacle here. The so-called “side salad” arrives not as an afterthought but as an astonishment — a painter’s palette of no fewer than fifteen distinct seasonal offerings, each bursting with vibrancy. Local fruits at the height of their ripeness mingle with greens and herbs in a jubilant profusion that recalls a 17th-century Dutch still life — sumptuous, abundant, and almost impossibly lush, as though painted by Vermeer himself. To gaze upon it is to feel a sense of plenitude; to taste it is to fall...