Potomac’s Founding Farmers
12505 Park Potomac Ave., Potomac, 301-340-8783, www.wearefoundingfarmers.com
Hours
Open for breakfast from 7 to 11 a.m. Monday through Friday. Open for lunch and dinner from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday; 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday; 11 a.m. to midnight Friday; 4 p.m. to midnight Saturday; and 4 to 10 p.m. Sunday. Open for brunch from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Afternoon social from 2 to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
Prices
Lunch and dinner: appetizers, $2 to $14; sandwiches and burgers, $9 to $17; entrées, $12 to $35. Breakfast and brunch: $5 to $14.
Reservations
Strongly recommended, a must for parties of seven or more. The restaurant takes reservations via its website, www.wearefoundingfarmers.com.
Drink list
In 2011, the downtown Founding Farmers won the best beverage/mixology award from the Restaurant Association of Metropolitan Washington. And it’s easy to see why. The Potomac location, with much of the same drink menu, sports house-brand rye, interesting cocktails, homemade sodas, house-made elixirs, infusions and syrups, a terrific beer selection and out-of-the-ordinary wines.
Favorite dishes
Farmers Pitchfork, Devil-ish eggs, pickled vegetables, mashed potatoes, homemade potato chips, chicken pot pie
Good place to go for
Beer and a bacon lollipop (or other drinks and appetizers)
Parking
Lots next to building
Carole Sugarman is the magazine’s food editor.
