{"id":5470,"date":"2025-05-17T05:52:26","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T21:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/?p=5470"},"modified":"2025-05-17T05:52:32","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T21:52:32","slug":"san-leandro-bites-farmhouse-kitchen-express","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/2025\/05\/san-leandro-bites-farmhouse-kitchen-express\/","title":{"rendered":"San Leandro Bites: Farmhouse Kitchen Express"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Good but expensive Thai food to go. <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some weeks ago, my husband and I decided to go on a lunch date and thought we&#8217;d give <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.farmhousethai.com\/\">Farmhouse Kitchen<\/a><\/strong> a try.  We had been there before, during the pandemic, and had had a lovely lunch on the patio &#8211; except for the noise from the construction next door.  The restaurant had closed and reopened since, and we were hoping to have better luck  &#8211; though as the weather was turning, we figured we&#8217;d have to eat inside this time.  As it happens, Farmhouse Kitchen in San Leandro &#8211; part of a small chain &#8211; has turned into Farmhouse Kitchen <em>Express<\/em> and they no longer have indoor dining &#8211; the whole of the restaurant has turned into a kitchen.  Indeed, they don&#8217;t even have waiters or even checkers to take your order: you have to order and pay online (better have a credit card).  They do have a terminal in the restaurant you can use to order, however, though it&#8217;s a little bit clunky.  <br><br>We did hang out in the patio while we waited for our order, and it&#8217;s nice-enough, though it seems in need of care.  Of course, this has been a very rainy spring, so they might be waiting for the weather to turn nice before they work on their patio (I know that&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve been waiting for myself).  Weather you eat there or not, the food comes in to-go containers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"595\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8540-e1747417322621-1024x595.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5474\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8540-e1747417322621-1024x595.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8540-e1747417322621-300x174.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8540-e1747417322621-768x447.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8540-e1747417322621-676x393.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8540-e1747417322621.jpg 1472w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I got the <strong>yellow curry with rice<\/strong> ($16) with <strong>beef <\/strong>($4).  It was good, but a bit on the spicy side.  The curry that depth and it was well developed, but it wasn&#8217;t anything extraordinary.  I think for the price, it should have been better.  I also got a couple of <strong>crispy roti<\/strong> ($3) to go with it, and these were pretty good but they were swimming in oil.  They were crispier and denser than others I&#8217;ve had, but they were still very nice with the curry.  The oil, however, made limited how much of them you could eat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"970\" height=\"448\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-47.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5476\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-47.png 970w, https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-47-300x139.png 300w, https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-47-768x355.png 768w, https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-47-676x312.png 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 970px) 100vw, 970px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"503\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8542-e1747417279201-1024x503.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5472\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8542-e1747417279201-1024x503.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8542-e1747417279201-300x147.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8542-e1747417279201-768x377.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8542-e1747417279201-676x332.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8542-e1747417279201.jpg 1330w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mike had the <strong>roti mataba<\/strong> ($15), a &#8220;crispy roti stuffed with curried potato and ground chicken,&#8221; which came with yellow curry, ajad (Thati cucumber salad) and a samosa.  He enjoyed all of them very much.  They were too spicy for my taste, but I&#8217;m a lightweight.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"601\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8536-e1747417258688-1024x601.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5471\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8536-e1747417258688-1024x601.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8536-e1747417258688-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8536-e1747417258688-768x451.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8536-e1747417258688-1536x902.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8536-e1747417258688-676x397.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8536-e1747417258688.jpg 1580w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He also had the <strong>pad thai<\/strong> ($15), which comes with shrimp. He thought it was quite good for a pad thai, though nothing mind blowing.<br><br>In all, we felt the quality of the food was pretty high, but also that the prices were on the high-side and not really justifiable for take-out food.  We probably wouldn&#8217;t go back, given other alternatives in town.  But if we did go, we&#8217;d <a href=\"https:\/\/order.online\/store\/farmhouse-kitchen-thai-cuisine-san-leandro-915964\/?hideModal=true&amp;pickup=true\">order<\/a> from home first.<br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.farmhousethai.com\/\">Farmhouse Kitchen<\/a><\/strong><br>16695 E 14th St, San Leandro<br>(510) 363-8309<br><a href=\"https:\/\/order.online\/store\/farmhouse-kitchen-thai-cuisine-san-leandro-915964\/?hideModal=true&amp;pickup=true\">Order<\/a><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good but expensive Thai food to go. Some weeks ago, my husband and I decided to go on a lunch date and thought we&#8217;d give Farmhouse Kitchen a try. We had been there before, during the pandemic, and had had a lovely lunch on the patio &#8211; except for the noise from the construction next [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[469,28,62,110],"class_list":["post-5470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-restaurants","tag-pad-thai","tag-reviews","tag-san-leandro","tag-thai","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}