Pacific Lighthouse

1051 Pacific Marina, Alameda
(510) 263-9232

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S Chin

Food and service is amazing. But too far for me, anything involving crossing the bay bridge is far considering bumping into traffic… However, we went on New Years at night wasn’t that bad (traffic). The food my brother in law ordered was very good however my personal favorites: Little piglet, Roast Duck, their vegetables dishes (got mom’s thumb up), fried rice, and noodle dish. By the way, their side dish while waiting for our food was very good. Pickled carrot and peanuts.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

KAMEE TONG

Exclusive view of the Bay and safe environments to walk around after a meal. The food is of great value depends on your orders but service still have room to grow.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 4

Francisco Leung

Dec. 2025
We came for dim sum and the food was great. They didn't roll out the carts with small dishes, but brought out what we ordered. This kept the dishes hot on arrival.

Dec. 2024
We had a large group and over 10 dishes were ordered including a lobster dish, tofu dish, chicken, different types of noodle dishes, soup, and hotpot. We also had black sesame dessert. The food tasted really good. They have a fish tank to keep lobsters and other fish.

The staff was quick and friendly. They kept the dishes rolling out. This restaurant is available for big events and parties.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Tarzan Boy

This place has definitely gone down hill. Came for lunch dim sum.
They have you mark all your preferred dim sum items but you can also wait for some items to come around. Not a good idea to wait for the mobile food because the items are usually cold by the time they get to your table.
We mismarked one of the items due to confusion in the description, pan fried vs deep fried. We informed one of female service runners of the mistake and she refused to return the item to the kitchen or removed from our bill. Her response was that “it’s already made, we cannot return it.” This is BS because I’ve seen this item on trays being brought around the restaurant before to be purchased.
Second thing that happened was the rice inside the steamed lotus leaf was COLD, so obviously not fully steamed. Rice was separating from each other as well as the flavor was completely off. You can immediately see something was wrong when you see the rice was completely white when you open the leaves. Usually the rice is darkened with the brown gravy which was non existent. This time we had to call the manager to take a look at the item for it to be returned AND removed from bill.
This placed is already way overpriced so they should at least take an item back if it’s not what you wanted, food cooked thoroughly as well seasoned well.
Not sure what to think of this place now.
Try it and judge it for yourself.
Personally, I don’t recommend coming for the food. Maybe for a date at night when there’s less people, other wise you will not be able to hear each other as well as yourself. Extremely noisy during lunch hours.

Atmosphere: 2

Food: 2

Service: 2

JA G

Elite establishment. Try the oysters. What a view. Long live, China! I'm American. As American as American gets. 3 generation Alamedian. Just saying.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Bat Ly

Came here for dim sum. Food was not good. Most of the dumpling skin is thick and soft. Had the xiao long bao was and it was not fully cooked through, cold and fall apart. Will Not come back!

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 1

Service: 2

Vinh Ton

Horrible customer service. Begged for more tips to the whole table. Came in on a Monday morning for some Dim sum with friends and family. The restaurant was empty. The elders lady served us, she didn’t know much English, which is ok. We couldn’t understand her much. But at the end when our bill was $300. And I tipped $40 cash. The asked for more in front of the whole table. What kind of service is this? Greedy people. Please be careful coming here, also check out other people reviews on Yelp. I’m not the only victim at this place.

Service: 1

Steve Thai

There were 16 of us having dinner there. The service was great but the taste of food was disappointing. Is so sad cos I had 2 nice banquet dinner here. The quality of food n tastes was day n night. The consensus for the group is the same--- disappointing. Guess will not come back in the future for lunch or dinner.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 2

Service: 4

Chuck Xu

My favorite dim sum in Bay Area

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

F. Johnson

The best measure of an ethnic restaurant is by the number of people of that ethnicity who eat there. My family was the only fully Caucasian family there. I loved their dim sum.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Dennis Ma

Location is good the food is not fresh this time. Service is okay

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 1

Service: 3

Miranda Hoang

This review is only for the dimsum service. I came here with my parents and the dimsum was warm and delicious! We also ordered some family style dishes from the menu like the fried rice and chow fun and both were delicious as well. Rich in sauce and well seasoned! I will be having my wedding reception here so there will be different review later for that.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Christopher Brophy

They brought me chicken feet

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 2

Service: 2

David Quenzer

Great Dim Sum, beautiful location!
Will return for more black sesame desserts.
It's not gweilo 鬼佬 food

T

used to come here every weekend

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 3

Service: 3

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