Founding Farmers - Reston

It was our 2nd time there so we brought the whole family for an early Father’s Day (10 people) everyone loved the food. Crab cakes absolutely amazing. Very consistent, great staff. Thank You.

Shrimp dinner tasted “fishy” not fresh.

Food was good, only issue we had was with our waitress. It took her 10 minutes to greet us and didn’t really explain how the brunch worked. She was also rude when we had an issue with our tab.

The food serving service consistently takes much longer than what should be the norm

We had a lovely time celebrating our daughter’s graduation. Yummy food and drinks! Will definitely visit, again!

Great service, convenient location, great selection of drinks and meals.

Food was excellent though came slowly - drinks and appetizer took very long. Primary waiter was very busy. Passed our table at least 3 times with empty iced tea glass sitting at edge of table. Had to ask him for a refill.

The staff was courteous and prompt. Kayla our server had the best personality and got everything perfect.

The outdoor area was spacious within a plaza surrounded by office buildings. The screen with beach videos across the plaza is a nice touch to the ambiance. The service at this time is a little shaky but they try hard to cover for each other. (It will probably get better as we get into summer.) Nevertheless their brunch food is the best. I enjoyed their vegetable scramble and especially their double espresso. They have many other wonderful selections for brunch too. Having ordered fir delivery many times I know that almost every thing they offer on their menu is great. Can’t say that about a lot of other places. I plan to return.

When ordering a cheeseburger the waiter should ask if you want catchup/mustard etc. before leaving the table for 10 minutes.

The food quality at FF is always top notch. Their wait staff seems a little inexperienced, but did an acceptable job. We always like going there and had a nice time.

Had two salads and a couple of cocktails. Bill without tip was $112.00. Wow! As soon as we sat down a waitress appeared and immediately launched into the specials of the day. We asked if we could relax a moment, perhaps get a cocktail. Got the cocktail abs immediately again launched into menu. We acquiesced and order two salads. Waitress came by a couple of times to check on us — great.

With noise level and waitress wearing mask, next to impossible to understand what she was saying. Had to ask three separate times for her to repeat herself. She was polite and did but it was frustrating.

Food was good and there a great selection on the menu. Service started ok but the server was less than attentive. Server tended to fly by we had to interject to get order in and had to remind them about a dish not arriving. Simple bread with cheese appetizer so looked like either they forgot until we reminded them or they just never put the order in. A little surprised as there usually have excellent service and they won’t very busy when we got there.

This was my first visit post-lockdown. I visited this location twice within the same week and both times had issues with food quality or errors coming out of the kitchen. My entree salad was missing the protein altogether upon delivery to the table. Altering my server, she disappeared and, 10 minutes later, a food runner arrived with a glass ramekin of what tasted like steamed shredded chicken. A pie dessert has barely room temperature and crust was a soggy disappointment. Second visit - my guest ordered an entree and the server immediately responded, "Are you 100% set on that choice? Our kitchen is not always successful it its preparation." My guest changed his order. I have always enjoyed dining at Founding Farmers and wonder if they are experiencing new challenges in the culinary areas.

There was an issue with one of the meals we ordered where we requested no cheese for one of the salads (no dairy). We discovered halfway through the meal that there was cheese in the salad which wasn’t great. We requested for a new one and was provided a new meal

FF has always been one of my favorite places to get brunch, since COVID I am not such a fan.

The brunch buffet is back in order but the overall selections were fair at best, the fried chicken was super dry which indicated it had been out awhile, and I was just generally disappointed with the menu and food selections and quality of the food this time. When you are paying a decent per plate charge, it should be fantastic every time.

We were celebrating my son’s graduation with brunch after the ceremony. The food was average at best and it was obvious that they were short staffed. Our drinks took over twenty minutes to arrive, and when we asked for a refill we were told by our server that they had “run out of glasses” so she gave us a to-go cup.

Not going back anytime soon.

Great brunch, food was fresh and flavorful. The two servers were excellent. Will definitely continue to come back.

Really good food and outdoor seating

The food was delicious although the spicy fried chicken was a bit dry. The service felt like they were new and in training, but tried very hard and were very nice and friendly. I suspect with everything reopening recently, there are new employees and they haven't quite established a momentum. We would definitely return!

Engagement treat

I love Quam! Plain and simple! If Quam isn’t my waiter I’m not interested in dinning!

Food took a while to come out, like 20+ minutes and was cooler than the hot plates when it arrived. Some flavors were weird, like the breakfast sausage which was advertised as maple but had no hint of maple taste and just tasted of strange herbs, not really sage as you would expect with breakfast sausage.

Great atmosphere, great service, great food!

Graduation celebration

Reunion lunch

Our server was helpful and attentive. My salad came out with the wrong type of chicken, and he quickly resolved it. Food tasted great as always.

First things first! Thank you for honoring military members and veterans! Founding Farmers was our first dining out experience in quite awhile! While my meal was fine, my husband’s was not! The spicy shrimp fettuccine was great - I wish I had ordered some bread to go with it. Both the fried chicken (overcooked) and fried green tomatoes were in desperate need of salt; the sides were just so so.
Customer service was poor. The check was incorrect and while my credit card was out, the waiter did not take it when he brought back the corrected check. So we had to wait for awhile.
Parking was confusing.
Love Founding Farmers—- just not the Reston Location!

Server was clearly frustrated having to train a new employee and had attitude when answering our questions.

We ordered the swordfish and it was horribly over cooked
I ordered the dry aged NY strip and asked for rare. It was well done. The risotto was undercooked with the scallops.

We had to wait so long for our food and drinks that we didn’t have time to wait for them to re-fire as we had a toddler with us.

The manager happened by to help his wait staff who were over burdened and asked how our meal was. We mentioned the issues (he asked) and he said thanks for the feedback. Not that we would normally say anything, but the manager did ever attempt to make it right.

Additionally they are charging a 5% service charge for COVID PPE. Many of their employees weren’t even wearing any ad they have a sign posed that all employees are fully vaccinated.

Poor service and poorly cooked food. Too bad, this place used to be really good.

Well we ordered 2 pasta dishes and farmers platter also 2 appetizers .for the farmers platter fried chicken must hot but was cold . Pasta wasn’t good.there was not enough workers we wait long time for the ordering.

The service at this FF was awful. I've been to many FF's, and this was by far the worst experience. The waitress was rude, brought me a coffee with no cream or sugar, and disappeared. I had to go up to the bar to get it myself. I had to ask the bartender to get the waitress, so we can order. Then, when I got my food after a very long time, they told me they had run out of biscuits which is a big part of the reason I ordered that meal. I am very disappointed and will never come here again.

The service was terrible. We were guessing it was because the Covid restrictions change and they had waiters shortage and to many customers but I considere that they shouldn’t take more reservations than their capability because the service was pretty awful and the food was just ok.

I used to be excited for Founding Farmers, but the attitude I got from the hostess, the lip stick mark left on the “clean” coffee cup, no biscuits available and the coffee running a bit late were all reasons to finally say I gotta tap out on FF. Ted’s Bulletin probably would have been a better option. I get it...things have been rough the past year, but if you expect me to pay a higher price...don’t act like I am the one that is stupid just because I don’t want sit alone at a table looking directly at people who aren’t sitting alone. Food was still great and the ambiance are still class.

Service with the waiter was very awkward. Young adults at the table didn’t realize that the server was speaking to them- he took it personally and then everything was weird after that.

It was just a nice outing with my family and we managed to catch the last hour of their brunch buffet which was really good. Also, their other offerings were delicious as well and our waitress was very attentive. I’ll definitely return to this location.

I wish the house salad would be better, just a nice mixed green farmer salad, with red onions and a citrus dressing, done. The one I got just tasted like olives, had no idea there were olives in it. Definitely did not like it.

The buffet was average. Some of the food was cold and dry. Selection wasn't great. Coffee was cold even after we asked for a new cup. Overall underwhelming.

Sunday Brunch. Had a waiter in training but the trainer was unimpressive. Never checked on us, dirty dishes sat on table, coffee went unfilled. Food area was messy, plates were dirty.

Our first time for brunch. Food was delicious; wonderful variety. Sarah was attentive and informative a server.

Our first disappointment was that they were out of their own brand of Vodka - which is kind of what they are known for. The only option was Stoli (ummmm... I don't think so). Then they didn't have a few of the beers on their draft list. One of us ordered their version of jambalaya, and it wasn't even close - even the waiter said, yeah that's not what jambalaya should be like. Food was ok, waiter was brand new so we were patient. Overall, not my favorite dining experience. We're trying to be tolerant in this post-COVID time, but no decent vodka? That's one of the main reasons we went to FF, rather than another of the many, many restaurants in the area.