Brian W.
Yelp
It's airport food. Splurge on the large bread bowl, especially if you're going to be starving in domestic economy for the next 5+ hours with only a plastic blue snack bag and a stroopwafel.
It's quick, and the staff are pleasant enough, and the clam chowder is... is... is not bad. You won't remember much about it aside from that it was good enough to say you might come back next time you're at Terminal 3 at SFO. And yes, service is quite quick.
But something about me shys away from giving it 4 stars. Might not even be Ladle and Leaf's fault, but on repeated visits to the food court over at the F gates in Terminal 3... I rarely have had a good experience here. Maybe if you go first thing in the morning the tables aren't too greasy, not too crowded, and it's not too smelly from all the other diners who have been here before you? I mean the food court staff do a good job keeping tables bused, but the whole experience just feels somewhat short of the world-class airport that SFO hopes to be and too far into the "it's okay" range, which lines up exactly with what Yelp calls 3*.