My friend and I had a lovely experience yesterday at Farmer Boy. We arrived around 9:30 and were seated after a couple minutes. We both asked if we could order customized scrambles and they happily obliged. The food was absolutely amazing and the fruit was super fresh. We were not rushed at all and were there for about an hour and a half. The place is clean and has a fun atmosphere. Our servers were wonderful as well. read more

Farmer Boy - Scramble with mushrooms, bacon and cheddar with home fries - Breakfast & Brunch Near Me - Santa Barbara, California

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Great neighborhood family style restaurant. Highly recommend the cinnamon roll (ginormous!) and the chilaquiles. The portions are big and it may be your one meal of the day. read more

Farmer Boy - Menu! - Breakfast & Brunch Near Me - Santa Barbara, California

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I give this place 4 stars for the price and the generous portions. But I give 3.5 stars for the service and food. This is a local breakfast restaurant in Santa Barbara. It's a classic diner type of breakfast joint. The wait was about 30 min to get seated. We ordered the country sausage omelette, egg bendict, small appetite breakfast with silver dollar pancakes, the Santa Barbara scramble and the cinnamon roll. We were hoping to share the cinnamon roll as a dessert after our meals but it came first which was fine. However Unfortunately we were very disappointed as all I hear about is how amazing their cinnamon rolls were. It was over baked so it was hard. I think they reheated the cinnamon roll with the frosting so you can see that the frosting was a bit toasted. The small center was soft so that made it edible. It didn't seem like a fresh one for sure. It's definitely not the best cinnamon roll, just average. I wanted to tell the server to give us a new one but my family didn't want to deal with it and just ate it. As for the rest of our food it was good. My hash browns were crispy which is what I had requested. The sausage with carmelized onions had a lot of flavor in the omelette. The Santa Barbara scramble was tasty. Egg Benedict was standard nothing special. And the small appetite breakfast was standard , can't go wrong with that and the bacon was thick and crispy. Service was lacking a bit. It took awhile to get more water and to pay the bill. Not sure if this is typical because the restaurant was full of customers or just an off day. I may return to give it 1 more try but with so many yummy restaurants in Santa Barbara, we'll see. read more

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Good food, good service and good prices. Example: Farmer Boy price for eggs, bacon/sausage, choice of potatoes and bread is from $3 to $6+ less than some other breakfast and lunch only restaurants. read more

Quaint little place, with great prices and customer service. The food was delicious and my husband and I loved it. We will definitely be going back. read more

The Baja fish tacos here is one of my favorite places for it. It's so hard to find decent Baja style fish tacos in Santa Barbara but glad it's near by my place and they have it for taco Tuesday. The fish is decent sized to the tortilla and their sauce is pretty good. I've tried other stuff here the last time I came and really liked it as well. I'm definitely coming back here for their Baja fish tacos on Tuesdays when I'm craving it. I'm also definitely coming back to try their meatloaf Monday and some pies. read more

Farmer Boy - Baja Fish Tacos on Taco Tuesday - Breakfast & Brunch Near Me - Santa Barbara, California

This is a great place. It's clean, the service is excellent and the food tasty. Coffee is Italian dark roast and bold in taste. Not your ordinary coffee served at most diners and breakfast joints Known for their fish tacos, served on Tuesdays. Parking can be tight. So you may need to park on a side street. read more

Food was so good I didn't take pictures haha. We spent the weekend in SB and decided to get some brunch before our engagement pictures. I looked up a place nearby and this place had great reviews. There was a line but it moved pretty quickly. We probably waited about 30 minutes to be seated. The inside gives a new age diner vibe especially since we sat at the bar. I got the eggs Benny and my boyfriend got an omelette. Portions were relatively big and very filling. They do have some beers on tap and mimosas but I just got plain ol oj. Def worth checking out and the host is really sweet! read more

Really enjoy this place. Always busy on weekends and can see why. Great food and great service. The cooks in the back really Know what they are doing as all their dishes come out with tons of flavor and great portion size as well. read more

New to Santa Barbara in general, the name and yelp reviews caught my attention. I am a breakfast person, so went for it. Short wait, too cold to sit outside but everyone was nice. The inside is what I would expect from a diner. Coffee was good enough, and offers to refill are often. Pancakes were solid, I use a 1-5 rating system for cakes - not fancy cakes just good ol fashioned pancakes and these were a in the 4 ballpark. Eggs were decent, bacon was too crispy/burned although my request so good2know. My son had chilaquiles, with green salsa. Not authentic for me, red salsa is but with pork and he loved them. It was a very generous portion! All in all, i have been back on numerous occasions and it is a good breakfast. read more

Another great place to eat for breakfast. The chilaquiles were Delicious and the staff there very friendly and willing to chat .. waffles also very good . Will be back again for sure read more

Great service, excellent food and very kind hostess. We had breakfast here last weekend and the pancakes, eggs, sausage, home fries and everything else on our table was beyond reproach! Highly recommend this place. Support local businesses! read more

We were driving home from LA and looking for a good restaurant for breakfast. Lots of choices came up, and Farmer Boy looked appealing, so that's where we went. We were not disappointed. The food was fresh and tasty. The coffee hot and very good. And our waiter looked after us! Well stop there again while driving through. read more

I really liked this place. It's a small cafe with delicious breakfasts. The staff is very polite, they notice the smallest details, you can see that they have a teamwork. The atmosphere is pleasant, everything looks clean and well-groomed. delicious cappuccino. Food cooked perfectly, everything is fresh. Prices are average. Convenient way to pay for the order. I want to come back here again. I recommend this place read more

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Great food, service, and perfect diner feel. Thank you farmer boy for being our favorite neighborhood breakfast spot.

There was a waiting list when we arrived so I knew ahead of time we would be waiting for a bit. Once we were seated it took a while for our waitress to arrive,( minus 1 star)we already knew what we were ordering since we saw the menu while we waited. Took a while for our food to arrive(minus 1 star) after order was placed. Be warned the food comes out immediately off the grill as I burned the roof of my mouth with the first bite of the santa barbara local.(minus 1 star).when check arrived there was a $3 charge for cream cheese for the bagel! That should have been mentioned, I would have passed. Especially since the bagel was burnt! read more

Farmer Boy - Burnt bagel - Breakfast & Brunch Near Me - Santa Barbara, California

Just had a fantastic breakfast at Farmer Boy! First off, the service was excellent! Gina was kind, attentive and such a great server. Then the food... so good! I had simple eggs, bacon, pancakes and hash browns. Each of them were really good. The coffee was no your average cup, it tasted like I make at home. Lastly, they have great ventilation. I hate going to coffee shops and when you leave, you smell like coffee shop all day. Go to Farmer Boy. read more

Bland chilaquiles is hard to do,, why have it on the menu then make a bad version of simple dish? Half-hearted. Nice waitstaff. Bad coffee. Just 1/2 hearted, food we had screams that they don't care. Maybe we ordered the wrong things? read more

Very good breakfast. Thick cut of ham, good coffee, she had cauliflower hash and scrambled eggs and a latte. Friendly staff, family neighborhood vibe. read more

Always amazing-tasting food! Classic breakfast & lunch diner vibe but very high-quality! Service is always speedy and attentive as well! One of my favorite spots! read more

So yummy! My friend and I split l the chicken & biscuits and the cauliflower hash. They were both really good but shockingly the cauliflower hash was the star of the show! It was so flavorful and I loved all the veggies with the pesto and almonds. Highly recommend read more

I added our names to the waitlist on Yelp and as soon as we arrived we were seated party of 5. The service was amazing! Everyone was welcoming and nice! Food was so good! We ordered steak and eggs, country fried steak, country sausage omelette! We had pancakes, coffee and chocolate milk too!! Our server was wonderful! She was so sweet and patient! We enjoyed our food and our time! When we visit Santa Barbara we will definitely come for brunch again! read more

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The food is ok, not great. They save themselves money by watering down the sour cream and placing cheap ingredients in my Baja omelette. The service is 200% better than the food, which scores about 85%. The only cooked correctly was the egg (just the egg only) and the hash browns. Everything else was made on the cheap, the toast was cheap bread, the butter was cheap as well. I spent $20 for the lesser quality of something worth $5...so, if you want to waste your money on cheaply and poor quality food then Farmer Boy on state st in Santa Barbara CA. read more

This is a great place that not a lot of people know about. We try to go here on Saturday mornings, and we go early when they first open to get a booth. The staff is SO kind! I will say that they used to have really good hashbrowns and was told that it's because they had butter in them, they would come out golden and crispy but the last 4-5 times we ate there, the hashbrowns were really cold, soggy, somewhat burnt yet yucky inside. I think they changed their recipe or chef. Eitherway, it was one reason we loved going there. I hope they bring back the old hashbrowns or train their cook correctly. read more

Loved this little diner - great service, great food. Wasn't too loud inside and ample parking. Had the standard eggs benedict with hashbrowns. Both were 10/10. Would visit anytime I'm in Santa Barbara. read more

Absolutely great experience. Super reasonable prices, good portions and very fresh tasting. Loved the toilet paper dispensers in the bathrooms. Good service and lots of eye candy via other patrons of the establishment. Feel guilty that my friend's dog tried to maul our waiter! #margoisevil. All in all, this review may kind of sound like a joke but its not! Best food for the best price in all of California. read more

Finally tried this local's favorite diner-style restaurant after two years of living in SB. I ordered the chicken fried biscuit sliders, pancakes with bananas and berries, and a cinnamon roll. The prices were of great value for the SB area and everything was cooked well. There was a lack of seasoning on the CF biscuit sliders, but that's my only complaint. read more

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So we're from LA and come to this diner because it had great reviews. I sat in some dude named Gilberts seat. "How did you know?" You may ask condescendingly - well my bar stool had his name on a thing. I felt his spirit on my meal. I actually sat next to another dude who came by himself and I thought it could be the ghost of Gilbert watching me to see if I was worthy. 1st tip - you definitely need to make a reservation through yelp because the wait time on Sunday was at least an hour. 2nd tip is that this place is like a time capsule that throws you back into 1965 without any racism. I guarantee that the food is fresh and they seem to actually care if you like it. It's definitely priced at a reasonable level and the portions are hefty. I wish they could transport this place to somewhere in LA, but I know if they tried they would just end up with a bathroom that has random losers tagging the mirrors. We stayed at the Upham so it wasn't that far of a drive, and quite honestly the people there are so friendly that it wouldn't have mattered if it was. 10/10 would recommend. I guess the final thing I'd say is that the overall experience was refreshing. read more

Farmer Boy - Cinnamon Roll - Breakfast & Brunch Near Me - Santa Barbara, California

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We were staying nearby so stopped in for breakfast. There's a hostess stand out front, but they were so busy, that we had to wait 5+ minutes for someone to help us. We had our pup with us. They had to check something and actually let us sit inside. Way in the back, near the bathrooms, but that's cool. Our dog just lay underneath the table and she's not bark-y at all so so one even knew she was there. They do have 4 tables in the front but they were all taken. We arrived inside to chaos. There were a couple of wait staff busting their butts and hustling and sweating through their shirts - cleaning tables, bussing, setting up knew tables, bringing out food, etc. I'm always glad to see that the service staff values people's time. Anyways we got the Santa Barbra local omelet and the classic pancake combo. And coffee and juice. Food did take a bit to come out. But it was solid and delicious. I really enjoyed the pancake, which was light and fluffy. Eggs and the meat were solid too. We paid and then got out of there so they could turn the table over. Glad we were able to enjoy a meal here. read more

The food was good. I had the cauliflower hash which was surprisingly tasty. The stars are removed because there were several dogs INSIDE the restaurant when we were there. This whole thing of "it's a service dog " is getting so out of hand. One of the dogs was sitting on the owners lap up in the table. Service dogs are required to stay down on the ground. Another dog was a huge white retriever whose hair flew everywhere. Gross. read more

One of the BEST BREAKFAST SPOTS EVER! Literally everything we had was beyond flavorful and delicious! Definitely want to go back! We had the carnitas chilaquiles, side of bacon, and Baja Omelette. read more

Farmer Boy - Baja Omelette, side of Bacon, Carnitas Chilaquiles - Breakfast & Brunch Near Me - Santa Barbara, California

The breakfast and level of service is great. You can tell this is a good place to eat, the flow of customers was constant. It is very clean.

Staying at Motel6 we had the choice of multiple places. One had a picture of a ham steak. No go. We went all the way to the mall where a bakery blasted French music. This being a cold, wet morning - rare in SB - we settled for Farmer Boy as the best option. Friendly, very good food, sit outside under the arcades with heater. Extremely attentive service - especially considering that one person ran the whole show of a filled diner "all of Santa Barbara came today" he said. No argument when the banana was past it's prime. He just took it off. Highly recommended. read more

Farmer Boy - They know how to make fun of themselves. Wall art next to clean toilets. Check it out. - Breakfast & Brunch Near Me - Santa Barbara, California

Is best breakfast in town And the least expensive Get there early because there's always a line

What a great local joint on State Street in Santa Barbara. Has a down to earth feel and busy busy busy. The service is a little haphazard but that is part of the charm of this place. The food is good old fashioned diner breakfast and lunch. Stick to your ribs classics. Never had an issue with the food, portion size, temperature or presentation. The only reason for 4 stars is an issue with our last visit. The milk for our coffee had half a sugar packet sleeve stuck to the inside wall. Scary how long it could have been there and it was a bit gross. We informed the guy leading the server team and coffee/milk were quickly replaced. Fortunately we saw it before consuming our coffee. I am going to call it a fluke and will not impact my next visit. Overall, a great breakfast spot with an old diner feel. read more

Food is amazing, highly recommend the Mediterranean omelette . Extremely fair priced which is hard to find here in Santa Barbara

Farmer boys was a great experience all around a small place but very cozy. Nice vibe, nice traditional diner vibe food was great. People were nice. Service was great. read more

4.5 Amazing food. I got the Mediterranean omelette & im still thinking about it! The hash browns were amazing as well. Not greasy like other places do it. Has a small diner feel which I enjoyed. The service was not the best, but it was still good, which makes sense due to the volume of customers. It was PACKED our mistake was not joining the waitlist online. read more

Farmer Boy - Breakfast & Brunch Near Me - Santa Barbara, California

Great food and service is always great here. We always go for breakfast here and so far have not had a bad meal. It's a good old fashioned place and friendly people. read more

I added it to the last review giving you a 10 out of10 for service quality and for the best breakfast around!!ambiance too!!!