Dragon River Restaurant

5045 Geary Blvd, San Francisco
(415) 387-8512

Recent Reviews

larry fong

Great food &

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Peking Duck with Buns, Steam Black Bass Deboned

Ken Wong

February 2024:Enjoyed a family dinner on a Thursday night. We pre-ordered the chicken stuffed with sticky rice. This dish is quite enjoyable because it's fried chicken stuffed with sticky rice that has a lot of delicious ingredients mixed in. This place did a good job.Peking Duck was excellent. The skin was very crispy ?. Fish fillet with asparagus was a Big hit too. Simple and cooked perfectly.The white chicken with ginger sauce was another good dish.Everything was tasty ?. We ordered the pork belly taro clay pot dish that is an old time favorite and hard to find nowadays. Everyone enjoyed that too.Overall, had a nice family dinner to celebrate Chinese New Year.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Deep Fried Chicken Skin Stuffed with Sticky Rice Chinese Bacon and Sausage

Kippy C.

The best Hong Kong style sweet and sour pork(生炒排骨) and 乾炒牛河beef chow fun. Very delicious they taste better than the restaurants that I ate while we were in Hong Kong last month . My family loves this place and we would order banquet style food for dinner during holidays like Lunar New Year .

Julie

I’ve ordered our Chinese new year dinners from this restaurant for years and our friends and family rave about the food. The restaurant is family run and super friendly. I highly recommend the beef chow fun, whole steamed sea bass with ginger and scallion, Peking duck, dry braised string beans, mu shu chicken. They also have a sticky rice stuffed chicken dish that is famous (on my list to try). Order the steamed sea bass and sticky rice stuffed chicken dish 24 hours in advance.

Food: 5

Service: 5

Michael M.

Been here several times the last few years and food was good but don't trust their online ordering, especially if its "busy". Which it didn't look that busy to me at 5 pm when I went in to pickup my order and there were only two tables filled. Was told they cancelled my order as they were to full to fulfill it. Could have at least called the cell phone number I put in with the order as I don't typical check my email while driving to a restaurant for a pickup to see if my order is cancelled.

Brenda C.

I loved the Westlake beef soup from here, honey walnut prawns, and fried rice too. I think the first time I went here was earlier this year with my boyfriend.

Priscilla L.

Excellent food to welcome the Linar New year of the Wooden Dragon. The stuffed chicken with sticky rice was great and must order way in advanced. Always excellent flavorful dish fatty beef part of animal dish but I forgot English name for it. All restaurants have this. Westlake Minced Beef Soup was popping hot and yummy on raining day. I liked it. Juicy Black Mushroom with Mustard Green was excellent and soft. Fish Fillet with Tender Greens was very soft and excellent .The okay dishes were Roast Pork with Taro Clay Pot with not much pork but a very hot dish. The Peking Spare Ribs and stir fry beef and pepper were also okay normal dishes, no wow factor here. All food well made and I would return back here. Friendly service and not too large restaurant. Yummy in my tummy. And yes i would return.

Rich Gold

I have been eating at this restaurant since 1989.. even though it has changed ownerships it's still great.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Rachel A

Reasonable prices, friendly and fast service.Enjoyed some apps, chicken with broccoli and prawns with vegetables. We tried some of the spare ribs with duck sauce — I think if you like them fried they’d be more your style but it wasn’t for us.Seems that duck dishes are their specialty.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Honey Walnut Shrimp

Donna Buoni

The food was good. We didn't have to wait very long for the food to come and the waitress was nice.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 4

Service: 4

ItsRealDill

I stopped here on a road trip with the family and wow was I impressed, this food was fresh HOT! And amazingly good, I’d highly recommend stopping by if you are in the area.?

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Jo L

Good selection of traditional Chinese dishes. My parents enjoyed eating here and it seemed like a great neighborhood restaurant with families and neighbors have some great conversations!

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 5

Ant Zee

A nice small restaurant, quite good Cantonese & Hakka food at reasonable prices. Parking at 5pm is the best, after 6pm, gets limited.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Veggie

Jim Hillin

The food at this Chinese restaurant is definitely above average. The only complaint I have is that the prices are a bit high for what you get.

Bernard Dion

What a fun place!. I think the owner's wife is Mindy, running the dining room. She is adorable and provides GREAT service. We brought a fish purchased live from a Chinese fish market and they steamed it for us for just $10. It was amazinglydelicious. The rest of the food was also really delicious AND very affordable. This is not a fancy place but it's a not-fuss place.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

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