Barley + Vine Kitchen & Bar answered 10 of its last 10 reviews, and it turns up among the businesses answering the most under three of the four trades we read around Farmington: restaurants, bars and bakeries. Its listing holds 1750 reviews. Bourbon Butcher Kitchen + Bar, with 2078 reviews, answered 3 of its last 10 and appears under restaurants, cafes and bars. Little Oscar's answered 5 of its last 10 and holds 1474. Those are the businesses answering the most of their recent reviews in the trades they appear in. What the rest of the twenty we read in each trade did is not something these figures tell you.
Everything measured here sits in food and drink: 80 businesses, four trades, twenty read in each. The files are deep. Among the restaurants someone searching around Farmington is shown, the median listing holds 442 reviews; cafes 367, bars 279.5, bakeries 159. The biggest listing in all four trades carries 2369 reviews. Two different windows are in play and they are not the same thing: the reply counts are drawn from each business's most recent reviews, while 442 or 2369 is a whole listing's running total.
Median ratings sit at 4.4 for restaurants, 4.5 for bars, 4.6 for cafes and 4.7 for bakeries. A median is one figure for a whole trade, so it does not tell you which listing is which, and nothing on this page is ordered by stars. The ordering here is reply behaviour.
Too few businesses were measured in this catchment to publish a reply figure of its own, so the benchmark on this page comes from the wider metro we measured: across 1445 businesses, a typical one answered 74% of its recent reviews. That 74% belongs to the wider metro, not to Farmington. Farmington has a population of 23675 and a median household income of 118556.
What to do about it
If you run a food or drink business that someone searching around Farmington is shown, the figure worth pulling up is your own last ten. That is the window every reply count on this page is drawn from. Barley + Vine Kitchen & Bar answered 10 of 10. Little Oscar's answered 5 of 10. Neither number is a function of listing size: Bourbon Butcher Kitchen + Bar carries 2078 reviews and answered 3 of its last 10.
Answering the whole listing is not the job, and there is no reason to treat it as one. Start at the newest and work backwards, answer the warm ones as well as the complaints, and write each one so no two of them read alike: a name, a dish, something only that visit produced. Catching up once and keeping up are two different jobs, and the second is the smaller one.
Food & drink in Farmington, MN
Barley + Vine Kitchen & Bar answered 10 of its last 10 reviews, and it is the business answering the most in three of the four trades we read around Farmington: restaurants, bars and bakeries. That overlap is worth understanding before anything else here. These counts describe the businesses someone searching in Farmington is shown, not a register of what sits inside the city limits, and one listing can be shown for more than one kind of search. Across the four trades we read 80 businesses, and only three distinct names come back as the ones answering the most.
The review files are deep. Among the 20 restaurants we read the median is 442 reviews, and the three most-reviewed hold 2,369, 2,078 and 1,750. The 20 cafes we read have a median of 367 reviews, the 20 bars 279.5, and the 20 bakeries 159 -- and even among the bakeries, the three biggest listings hold 2,369, 1,750 and 1,474.
| Trade | Median reviews | Median rating | Answers reviews best | Answered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Restaurants | 442 | 4.4 | Barley + Vine Kitchen & Bar | 10 of 10 |
| Cafés | 367 | 4.6 | Bourbon Butcher Kitchen + Bar | 3 of 10 |
| Bars | 279.5 | 4.5 | Barley + Vine Kitchen & Bar | 10 of 10 |
| Bakeries | 159 | 4.7 | Barley + Vine Kitchen & Bar | 10 of 10 |
Method
Every figure comes from public Google listings — the businesses and owner replies any customer can see — read on 2026-09-24. Counts describe the businesses someone searching in Farmington, MN is shown, which is the competitive set a customer actually chooses from, not a register of businesses inside the city limits. A business is named only where we read at least eight of its recent reviews, and only the ones answering the most are named; the rest of a market appears as a distribution with its denominator. Chains are counted but never named. Nothing is ranked on star rating. Farmington, MN has a population of 23,675 and a median household income of $118,556 (US Census) — context for the town, not a predictor of its reviews.