Beijing Restaurant Review, San Francisco, 94112

Beijing Restaurant 1801 Alemany Blvd (At Ocean) San Francisco, CA 94112 415-333-8182

Beijing Restaurant is a new Beijing style Chinese restaurant in San Francisco’s Excelsior district that opened in early 2009. It’s gotten lots of hype on Chowhound. It is a family owned place that focuses on authentic Beijing dishes. Basketball player Yao Ming had been here 2 days earlier.

Decor, Vibe – Small 12 tables restaurant with typical Chinese restaurant decor. A mix is Asians, Hispanics, and Causaians were dining when we were there. Most were eating inexpensive lunch rice plates.

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Beijing Specials are the best bets

Picks:

Beijing Beef Pancake ($7.25) had lots of beef sandwiched between layers of a pan fried scallion pancake. A very good version especially when eaten fresh and hot.

Sweet and sour pork ribs ($8.50) were tender chopped riblets with a lightly sweetened sauce. Good implementation of the classic.

Fried Lamb Skewers ($5.95 for 4) were deep friend with cumin. Hot spices on the side. Crunchy, slightly gamey, but good.

Tower of Fried potatoes ($9.95) is not on the menu but can be ordered by asking. Crispy thinly cut potatoes drenched in a sweet/sour sauce. Very yummy.

House Special Eggplant ($7.50) was awesome. Tender eggplant with chicken and a little shrimp with a slightly sweet sauce.

OK:

Beef Noodle soup ($6.95) had hand pulled noodles in a simple broth. Thinly sliced beef cold cuts topped it off. Average, perhaps the Beijing Noodles with special sauce is the way to go.

West Lake Lamb Dumpling ($7.50) were a bundle of dumplings with ground up filling. Fair, not as good as San Tung’s. They were better pan fried the next day as left overs.

Nappa with Pork Dumpling ($7.25) were a bundle of dumplings with ground up pork. Also fair, not as good as San Tung’s.

Pans:

Hot and sour soup ($4.75 for small) was a bad implementation of the classic. Avoid it.

Beijing Restaurant had decent friendly service with food coming fast and refills offered on a timely basis. This restaurant offers up some very good Beijing Chinese food and at reasonable prices. Don’t come here for Kung Pao chicken or Hot and sour soup, stick to items on their Beijing special list. We can easily recommend this place and would explore the menu further.

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