Little Star Pizza is a popular pizza place with 2 locations in San Francisco. We visited the Divisidero location and ordered deep dish pizza. It took about 30 minutes to get our pizza.
Decor, Vibe - This place is in the middle of the Western addition, not the best of neighborhoods. The place is dark and feels cramped. Hipsters in their 20’s were mostly eating here and drinking Pabst and listening to the jukebox. Wait times can be long from 7-9pm.

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Website Menu

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Classic ($17 for 9in, $22 for 12in)- Sausage, mushrooms, green bell peppers and onions would feed about 2 people. The pizza was full of chunky tomatoes to a point of being sour and strong. Sausage was not spicy nor was it flavorful. Corn mealy buttery crust was best part. Lots of toppings but not a lot of sausage. A good pizza but we like Zachary’s better.

Mediterranean Chicken ($18 for 9in, $23/12in) Chicken breast, artichoke hearts, red bell peppers, green olives, onions, feta had lots of chicken and dark olives. The Classic was better than this one as this was a little more soggy and less filling.

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Little Star Pizza had friendly service that was about average. Cheap $10 corkage. Limited dessert menu. Cash only.
This restaurant serves decent deep dish pizza that is a cut below Zachary’s in the East Bay. Of course it is just a matter of personal preference with this level of quality. It is worth visiting if you are in the area and do not feel hitting the East bay. CASH only

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Lobster Shack Redwood City

Lobster Shack San Francisco

Lobster Shack focuses on bringing the New England lobster experience to the San Francisco Bay Area. It is located in a strip mall near Baker’s Square in Redwood City and also in San Francisco’s North Beach. They fly in the lobsters. They have much more than lobster on the menu, seafood appetizers, sandwiches, burgers, and seafood platters. They have BBQ’s on the weekends.

Decor, Vibe - Birch picnic tables ala New England with bouys, fishing nets. During lunch, workers from nearby were eating.

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The Naked Lobster Roll ($18.75) was lobster meat on a toasted roll with sides of fries, mayo, cole slaw, and drawn butter. It has massive amounts of tender lobster on their specially baked nicely toasted and buttered buns. Perfect lobster flavor. Wish it had a bigger bun as there was so much lobster. No need to slather mayo on this beast, it dilutes the flavor too much.
Their Steamed Maine Lobster 1.25lb Dinner was only a little more $21.75. It comes with corn on the cob too.

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Lobster Shack serves up its namesake lobster extremely well. We have been here before and have sampled the steamed whole lobster and can vouch for that also.
If you have a hankering for New England style seafood, head here. Kids menu available.
Happy Hour Mon-Thur 5-7pm with $2 off Shacketizers and Draft Beer. $4 off Shack House Red or White Wines.

Also at:
532 Green Street (Near Grant)
San Francisco, CA 94118
415-829-3634

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This review updated with Menus and more exotic dishes we recently ate.

The Kitchen is part of a restaurant group that owns several Chinese Cantonese restaurants in the San Francisco Bay area, Alhambra, and Sacramento area. Sister restaurant Asian Pearl is only a couple miles north of here. We’ve been to most of them and find them pretty good. This review concentrates on dinner only.  Another review covers dim sum lunch.

Decor-Vibe - The Kitchen is a typical busy and noisy Chinese restaurant with lots of families and friends eating together. Like many Chinese restaurants, the bathroom is not very clean.

Menu pics

Special Menu

Dinner Menu

Asian Pearl Chef won awards

Special Value Set Dinners

Banquet Menu

For those a little overwhelmed by Chinese menus, go for the items with pictures, they are all specialties.

Picks:

Sharks Fin with crab meat in pumpkin soup ($28) - A non politically correct soup but very tasty with high quality sharks fin and the pumpkin gold cream that makes it very smooth.  Lots of real crab.

Sauteed  Foie Gras with Wild mushrooms ($30) was a decadent dish.  As a lover of Foie Gras, the actual Foie Gras was pretty dense and compact, but the Foie Gras flavor melted all over the delicious mushrooms.  Lots of quantity too.

Sauteed Coral Giant Clam with XO sauce ($16.80) had exotic orange colored clams with mushrooms and snap peas.  Not gamey, perfectly cooked.

Roast Pork Belly ($12) was super freshly cooked roast pork.  The top skin was super crunchy beyond anything I have tried.

Ginger Onion Braised fish heads Clay pot ($13) is an exotic dish that was done perfectly.  Lots of ginger onions though. Tender, deep fried fish heads.

Good Soup of the day

Roast Squab ($13.80 whole) - Authentic version of a classic Cantonese dish.  Juicy and cooked just right. Crispy skin.

Steamed Chicken ($10, Half) - came with some nice ginger, scallion dipping sauce.  Tender and flavored as expected.

Honey Pepper Beef Short Ribs ($13)- Not big on quantity, more red and green bell peppers than meat, but good flavor.

Geoduck Clam and Snap peas (Market price) - Tender and plentiful Geoduck clam stir fried along with crispy peas.  Very good dish.  Geoduck looks ugly in their tank but taste wonderful.

Free Dessert Soup

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Peking Duck ($28 whole) was a little mushy on the skin and not crispy. Flavor was fine and meat was plentiful.

Baked Stuff Eggplant ($13) was very good.  It had a lot of bonito fish shavings on top of tender and fresh eggplant.

Chinese Broccoli ($13)- Typical vegetable dish, nothing special.  Gotta eat your veggies though.

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Service was about average for a place like this. You have to hunt down the workers for most requests. The quality of the food is very high here especially factoring in the cost.  Some of their specialty dishes are pretty good.  This is a good place for quality Cantonese Chinese Dinner. Others in their top notch category include Koi Palace in Daly City, and R&G Lounge in San Francisco

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