Farmer Boys — Restaurant in Santa Ana

There are 3 ways you can get Fish at Farmer Boys. #1 In a sandwich #2 Fish & Chips only #3 Fish and Chips Complete Dinner. Here is the trick. Order the Fish & Chips DINNER and it will feed 2 people. Its a ton of food! You get 4 pieces of fish, and an obscene amount of fries, 2 huge onion rings, toast, and a salad or soup. With a large drink (that Mrs. Dog and I shared), the whole meal was about 9 bucks. For 2! The other trick is to have them give you "regular fries" instead of the "upgraded" steak fries you get only with the dinner. They are not as good as they have some sort of coating on them and some kind of seasoning. The regular bright yellow fries at these places rock!

We got the salad with a creamy Italian dressing. Nothing special. Not bad. Kind of what you would get if you ordered a salad at a cafeteria. Its on a large plate (actually platter) so its easy to satisfy 2 people. You can go up to the condiment counter and get those hot banana peppers for free and eat those too with your salad. I love those!

The onion rings are OK. A little too corn mealy. I much prefer the battered ones better. Onions were tender and juicy though on the inside. Probably because they were so big. Too often they get dried out at many places.

On a side note, We have had zucchini here. It is the best in the world here. Huge thick places that will burn your mouth hole, even if you let them sit for half an hour.

The toast was buttered on both sides. It was like biting into a toasted sponge full of melted butter. There was so much butter in this thing. We did not care for it.

The fish is awesome. Beer battered and crispy. Light in texture and very crunchy at first. It got a little soggy after a while because we drenched it with malt vinegar. The fish they use is pollock. The only thing that could make the fish better is if they used cod. I don't even know why that would be. I just know that cod tastes awesome. But if I didn't know it was Pollock, I would have thought this was cod. If I didn't tell you, YOU would think its cod. I think cod would have been slightly firmer. Anyway, the fish was juicy, firm, and mild. You get 4 huge pieces with the dinner! The tartar sauce is good too. I am not a tartar sauce connoisseur. I only can recognize it when its BAD, and this sauce was not bad and very tasty. This is seriously some of the best Fish & Chips available in Orange County and its so convenient and the price can't be beat. I love it when you find great food at places that don't specialize in the dish you are after. Farmer boys is not a British Pub or anything like that. The fries were awesome too. Light and pure. No funky coating. Just the right amount of salt.

The employees would come by on their own and offer to refill our drinks. They could tell right off the bat I was being a cheapskate and sharing a drink with My Chick They could care less. They just wanted to make sure we were happy. And happy and...

I'll give this place a 3 star let me say the food was good but the young lady taken the order did not seem like she new what she was doing cause she add 3 drinks to our order when we already had order 3 drinks there was only 3 of us not 6 of use so no needed for 3 more drinks so I had her read over our order n told her can u please remove the 3 drinks since we already had our drink it took us 3mins until she got it down we would have been charged $8 more for drinks that was not needed . Then that at there soda machine they have no water I don't know about allot of people but my self I like to water down my drinks . The only way was to ask a employee it was busy and I don't like to ask when a place is busy cause it's water but I was going to use my husband's cup to get my drink so I needed the cup to be rinsed out and to add water so I asked a young lady if she can please rinse out the cup and fill the cup up half way with water well she just add water my husband had a different drink then what I was going to get I then ask a young man if he can add water to the cup since I just poor out the water the young lady just put in so he did the young lady seen I don't know I could be wrong she looked at him n looked at me n told him something I was going to say something but again I just wanted a clean cup just like everyone else would have wanted ... So that's why I give the place a 3 star cause 1 the young lady almost over charging us and then not having a water so anyone...

Farmer Boys claims it is not fast food, but the service is pretty speedy. The quality of the food there is, I think, Superior to a lot of quote fast food places unquote. That is not to say that they are inexpensive. Their prices are on the high end but then so is the quality of their food. There are Farmer Boy Burger is quite a meal. There are specialty in my opinion is the deep fried zucchini. That is zucchini that is cut end in and quarters breaded deep fried to a crisp external crust with an interior that is still almost crisp. Unlike others where it is mushy. They're large onion rings are also very good along with their fries. One of the favorites are is the four piece fish platter. This includes four pieces of cod, on a bit of french fries with two large onion rings and a salad that is large enough for two. For $14.99 at the moment, that's a pretty good deal. I I find the service good the interior nice but not fancy and overall a pleasant experience. They do have...