"As hard as your company tries to make your office habitable, you’re still surrounded by a bunch of glowing screens and people making water cooler conversation, even though the only water cooler around is on a Dilbert poster. So for lunch, it’s nice to go somewhere that actually feels like you’d want to hang out there. Mendocino Farms is a place on the corner of California and Montgomery that’s just that. Besides the big, open, blue and white space, the food here is mostly salads and sandwiches - all of which are light enough to keep you on your toes when you’re back in the office trying to dodge people talking about the weather. In particular, we like the pork belly banh mi." - Taylor Abrams, Jess Basser Sanders, Will Kamensky