Great Eastern Restaurant Review, San Francisco

Great Eastern Restaurant has been serving Cantonese Chinese food in this location for many years. They serve dim sum during lunch and traditional items during dinner. We visited for dinner on a busy weekend night right before Chinese New Years day.
They have an extensive menu, live seafood in tanks, and some preset dinners. We were here for a $310 dinner for 10 people.

Decor, Vibe – Busy, loud Chinese restaurant. Some tourists, big family gatherings, and some Caucasians were dining.

Menu Pictures

Picks:

BBQ Assorted Cold Platter with Soy Sauce Chicken, Roast Duck, marinated beef, and jellyfish was very good. The quality of the duck and chicken were especially fresh and flavorful.

Sauteed Scallops and Prawns with straw mushrooms and snow peas was done just right. Lots of tender fresh scallops and shrimp.

Sauteed Clams with black bean sauce was done perfectly. Lots of tender clams.

Crispy Fried Chicken with shrimp chips were fried to a golden brown yet still juicy and tender.

Peking Duck with steam buns was a good dish. Duck was not huge but flavor and cooking was just right.

Ginger scallion Crab had 2 big crabs cooked just right. Really messy and pain to take apart, but very good nonetheless.

Abalone mushrooms with greens had a bunch of mushrooms that were pretty huge. Good stuff.

Free red bean dessert soup with pearls was done just right and was not too sweet.

OK:

Shredded dry scallop Soup with chives, mushrooms, and shredded chicken was full off ingredients. The broth was very good, while the ingredients tasted ok.

Fried Rice with salted fish is a classic heavy duty starch dish. A little more over powering that we needed with all the food plus it was way too salty, but still good.

Pans:
None

Great Eastern Restaurant and R&G Lounge have been our goto places for dinner in Chinatown and continue to be. The food was very good and even the service decent.
While places like The Kitchen and Koi Palace on the Peninsula offer top notch food with many exotic specialties, Great Eastern continues to deliver solid traditional Chinese food.

Overall Rating: (Very Good)

Come Back?

Food Rating:	(Very Good)
Service Rating:	(Good)
Atmosphere Rating:	(Good)
Value Rating:	(Good)

Guide: 0 = poor, 1 = Fair/Average, 2 = Good, 2.5 = Very Good, 3 = Excellent , 4 = Extraordinary

Alcohol:	Full Bar
Attire:	Casual
Hours:	Daily 10am - Midnight
Parking:	Street
Reservations:	Yes
Prices:	$8.50 - $41

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