Osmanthus Dim Sum Lounge

Best Dim sum in the China town area! Loved the service, joked with the host, bartender was great, they even let Chili Dog chill with us on the outdoor seating. Love this place and it was perfect for the Lunar New Year, thanks again everyone at Osmanthus!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Peking Duck, BBQ, BBQ Pork, Shrimp Dumplings, Fried Rice, Wings, Fish, Spicy Wontons, General TSO’S Chicken-佐宗雞, Dried Scallop Egg White Fried Rice, Steamed Shanghai Dumplings

Our favorite Dim Sum place in the city. Plenty of choices and their baked BBQ pork is to die for! They run out of it so best to go early in the day to get it. Reasonably priced and perfect portions. Highly recommend.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Big portions and great food!

We were 7 people easily sat on a Friday night. Ordered a plethora of different dim sum options all of which were good.

The garlic noodles were the absolute favorite but this is one of those places you can’t go wrong.

We over ordered so keep the portion sizes in mind when ordering for big groups.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Best and my favorite place for dim sum in the Bay!!! I love their pork and shrimp siu mai. Everything is always delicious!! Looking forward to be back.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 4

Recommended dishes: Shrimp Dumplings, Fried Rice, General TSO’S Chicken-佐宗雞

Long overdue and much deserved review.

Highly recommended If you’re ever in SF!

Imagine it’s Saturday morning, you wake up in your comfy pajamas, make a nice cup of your favorite drink about to dig into your favorite breakfast. It’s the feeling you get eating here.

Freshly made dim sum? Yes, please!
The bbq baked buns…speechless. Soup dumplings…heck yes. (Best eaten 2 minutes after it’s dropped on the table so you don’t burn your tongue.) Chicken Wings here are a gem. I don’t care how much I order, this belongs on the MUST order list. The flavor is phenomenal. The crisp IS CRISPIN’.

Delicious tea selection, go figure because they’re tea connoisseurs and have a shop in Chinatown!! It’s called Vital Tea and they freakin have free tea tasting so you don’t have to guess what you’re taking home! (I know you guys know what I mean).

Anyway, let me get back to my review… ask for their specialty drinks, if you’re not a drinker - Herman makes amazing mocktails. Today he made a coconut lychee something magical mocktail and I’m still dreaming about it. Which brought to write this review now.

All in all - you get traditional vibes with open space with 100/100 good vibes and great food.

Friend, friendly.
Dog, friendly. (Outdoor seating)
Family, friendly.
Kid, friendly.
Date, friendly.
Celebration, friendly.

My personal favorites -
Pan friend noodles w xo sauce
Snow peas with garlic
Turnip cake
Stir fry Green beans
Baked bbq buns
Duck w the buns
Chicken feet
Wonton in chili oil
Pan fried pork dumplings

Drooling now 🤤

I’ll take my whiskey 🥃 neat ☺️

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

High priced for an average taste dim sum. Extra fees added to the bill.
No validation for parking.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 3

Service: 4

Great dumplings authentic hearty dim sum. Service is a bit wanting

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 5

Service: 3

Recommended dishes: shanghai crab dumpling-蟹肉小籠包, Shrimp Dumplings

got congee and it was fine, tea was good. mostly leaving a review for the phenomenal service. dining room is very nice and had a relaxing atmosphere when I went

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Loved the salt and pepper tofu and the garlic noodles!

A nice spot for dim sum. The selection isn’t very large, but I actually appreciated that — sometimes too many options can be overwhelming. Everything we tried was tasty and well prepared. I also had the lychee cocktail, which was pleasant and refreshing — not a big “wow” moment, but definitely solid.

Overall, a good place to stop by for a satisfying dim sum meal.

The dim sum was good but nothing really special. The best thing to get is the Garlic Noodles. They’re chewy and very delicious.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 5

We ordered the sui mai, cha sui cheung fun (roast pork rice rolls), lo mai gai (sticky rice lotus leaf), soup dumplings, salt and pepper squid, garlic pea shoots, green beans and eggplant, soup dumplings, hot and sour soup, and beef congee. Everything was really good except for the lo mai gai, it was a little too soggy and the congee was a bit bland but neither one were horrible just a little meh. The atmosphere and service were good!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 4

Service: 4

Went here for a post-work dinner with a coworker from out of town. We ordered some of the vegetarian and shrimp dumplings, stir fried vegetables, scallion pancakes and salt and pepper chicken. Dessert was custard bao buns, which were likely the highlight, although everything was very good. Space is huge and well-decorated, and the owner is very friendly and helpful. Ask about their tea selection!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 4

Service: 5

So good! We ordered the pea shoots with garlic. Whole cloves of garlic were roasted to creamy perfection and stir fried with the greens in a lovely light sauce. Har gow was perfect, shaped into little shells. So pretty and just as tasty. We did two types of mushroom dumplings— steamed and fried. Both were standouts. The steamed ones tasted a little bit like Jewish Brooklyn inside, just rich and creamy with little carrot bits. I was loving it! The best East-West fusion. 😂 We also ordered a pot of matcha tea — it was also perfect, and never got bitter because the water was too hot. I highly recommend!!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

This place was recommended to me and my friend and it did not disappoint the pork soup dumplings and chicken chow mein were so good.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5