Farm Artisan Foods, Redlands

I wanted to like The Farm, it is the type of restaurant I usually fall for. But, after eating there, I was generally disappointed. The Bad: We got a couple baskets of foccia bread while we were waiting for our food, and pieces in both baskets were partially frozen. This seems a bit strange, even the Olive Garden can manage to bring fully cooked bread to the table. I ordered a mushroom pasta dish because, well, I love mushrooms and pasta. It was inedibly salty. The Good: My wife's pasta dish was fairly good, and I got a butternut squash soup that was wonderful. But it was dessert that brought the restaurant back from the brink of badness. The Farm has wonderful, reasonably priced, dessert and dessert-wine combos. Our desserts were excellent enough that we're likely to go back just for that. The Rest: Because neither my wife nor I enjoys the confrontation that comes along with sending a dish back we don't know how they would have handled our complaining about the frozen bread and inedible salty pasta. Perhaps they would have been great about it. The other, less tangible complaint I have about The Farm is that it felt snotty. It's a personal thing, but the wait staff seemed to have the attitude that they were doing us a favor. But that could have been just a bad night. The Conclusion: I was disappointed in The Farm Artisan Foods, but because it's the type of place I want to like I'll give it another chance. The desserts were wonderful and with a few small changes the rest of the meal could have followed suit.