R&G Lounge

R&G Lounge is known as one of the best Chinese restaurant in the San Francisco Bay Area for its innovating yet traditional dishes. Since opening in 1985, R&G Lounge has grown and expanded from a 50-seat dining room into a 250 seat restaurant catering to many guests alike. Today, R&G Lounge continues to deliver mouth-watering dishes using the freshest ingredients to make your experience as...

After 5pm, validated parking at the Holiday Inn and the Portsmouth Square Garage--both one block north on Kearny--is a boon in this overcrowded neighborhood.

R & G Lounge has several private rooms that can be set aside for large groups.

"Excellent" salt-and-pepper crab is a "must" among a "first-rate" variety of dishes at this "superior", "locally famous" Chinatown Cantonese with a "nicer than usual" space (and "pricier" tabs as well); the servers do "hurry you along" to make room for the crowds, but you should bring your "out-of-town guests" and "make them happy" nonetheless – just "make sure you have reservations."

Downstairs you’ll find a family-style restaurant with astonishingly inexpensive prices and daily Cantonese lunch specials (like a wonderful five-spice oxtail soup) that are exceptionally tasty. Upstairs is a serene and rather elegant dining room where you can order perfectly cooked vegetable dishes and fish plucked right from the tank. A good choice: the crisp and delicious salt-and-pepper...

Ree ruv R&G. Nicely renovated three-story Chinatown Cantonese landmark where food goddess Alice Waters celebrated her birthday. Don’t be spooked by Secret Service wires worn by the hosts. Just ask for a table in the upstairs dining room, and get the salt-and-pepper crab (fresh out of the tank), roast duck, the R&G Special Beef and any of the clay pots. $6 lunch rice-plates are a steal.

The look is pure Chinatown: neon signs and fish tanks in the ground-floor bar, Chinese characters and red tassels in the upstairs and downstairs dining rooms. But the crowd—everyone from families and tourists to local chefs and Asian celebrities—knows that the Hong Kong-style cooking at R & G is far from ordinary. The fresh, impeccably prepared seafood includes head-on, peel-your-own...

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