Food Blog

“Didn’t you eat anything but breakfast?” you ask. I’ll get to some very nice dinners at Wright’s, The Capital Grille, Vincent’s and Different Pointe of View, but I’ll stick with the breakfast, (and gravy) theme.

The Farmhouse was apparently a very popular place for a long time, until a controversial change of ownership sent the regulars boycotting the original location. The original mother and daughter team reopened the Farmhouse in downtown Gilbert AZ. where the place needs several benches and a pad of paper outside the restaurant for the waiting list, even on weekday mornings.

In an area of new strip malls and chains, this place thrives, and it’s obvious why: cheap, big breakfasts which blow away the last two places I just reviewed.

I had the biscuits and sausage gravy (sorry no chicken fried steak here), very tasty with bits of flavorful sausage and fluffy soft biscuits. My home fried potatoes arrived late, but were great. Others at the table had some big ass pancakes, and the special - a pork tenderloin omlette, which, after tasting, I wished I had ordered. But I wasn’t going to give up my biscuits and gravy.

Also on the menu was a biscuits with chip beef gravy, which I had never seen before. I was intrigued since who would serve something like that, unless it was outstanding?

The little story on the back of the menu let us know that the place was getting some good press, including an inclusion in a “top 25 things to do in Phoenix” list.

I’m sure most of the other things on that list included hikes that burn off all that gravy.