The Farmhouse

The Farmhouse is a restaurant in Needham, Massachusetts, serving local, organic, contemporary American cuisine. It is a farm-to-table operation owned and operated by a husband and wife team, Dora Tavel-Sanchez Luz and her partner, who together bring more than 35 years of restaurant experience, with Dora herself having over 25 years of combined experience working in restaurants in Los Angeles, New York City, and Boston. The restaurant serves lunch Wednesday through Friday from 11:30am to 2:00pm and dinner Tuesday through Saturday from 4:30pm to 9:00pm, and is closed Sundays and Mondays. It holds a rating of 4.50 based on customer reviews.

The concept grew out of Dora's family home in Cornville, Maine, at the Admiral Dot Farm, and traces back to her first garden on a balcony on New York City's Clinton Street. The menu changes based on the farmers' availability and includes dishes such as fish tacos with battered halibut, shrimp tacos with cajun tiger shrimp, chicken Milanese, kale salad, crispy calamari, and a mixed green salad built on Little Leaf Farms greens, with gluten-free, vegetarian, and vegan options and add-on proteins including avocado, chicken, and cajun shrimp. The dining room was built using reclaimed wood from barns being torn down and old farmhouses across New England, creating a rustic setting meant to evoke a family farmhouse. The restaurant offers a kids menu, a full bar with hand-crafted cocktails, private events, gift cards, takeout, offsite catering, reservations, and walk-in seating, and describes its service as warm, knowledgeable, and unpretentious.

The Farmhouse sits on Great Plain Avenue in Needham, near the intersection with Highland Avenue. Town Hall Common park and Needham Town Hall are both about a tenth of a mile away, and the commuter rail's Needham Center stop on the Needham Line is nearby.

The restaurant is a woman-run business, and its 4.50 rating reflects positive feedback from the customers who have reviewed it.