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Recently, I very much enjoyed The Adamantine Palace by Stephen Deas. It's not so much epic fantasy as The Godfather with dragons, but it was a lot of fun, and I'm looking forward to the rest of the series.
In fact, I'm kind of struggling to think of the last quest-type fantasy I enjoyed. Joe Abercrombie's First Law Trilogy, beginning with The Blade Itself kind of subverts the form, and he has some of the greatest characters anywhere in the genre, but it's a brutal, gritty fantasy and might not be what you're after.
I was kind of enjoying Kate Elliott's Crossroads trilogy, starting with The Spirit Gate if I'm remembering right, but I've put off reading the third book for a couple of years, now, for no particular reason except that it's in paper. It's a more traditional "mysterious evil rising" sort of book, but there's not much sign of a quest, and I don't remember any farm boys turning into legendary heroes.
There's Peter V. Brett's The Painted Man (Warded Man in the US), which is an unusual and interesting angle on fantasy. I thought it had some problems in structure, but it's worth a look.
Two series I didn't like that a lot of people do: Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth - predictable and bland; Stephen Erikson's Malazan Book of the Fallen - poor characters and badly broken dynamic range.
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