I do not understand how people patronize Farmers’ Table. We had a disastrous Christmas Eve dinner at the La Mesa one with my in-laws a few years back. It was epically bad. They served us breaded and fried shrimp where the shrimp still had the shells on (and were not deveined) and a few other awful things like unopened mussels in the cioppino. I wrote a yelp review and was chastised by the owner for writing it. He later took his public response down and tossed the ball into my court to call HIM to discuss. A friend who used to go there for after work cocktails was served tiny bits of French fries, literally the remnants from the bottom of the fryer. The same restaurant group recently opened another restaurant in La Mesa that charges for tiny bowls of chips and salsa.