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Sam Wo (traditional Chinese: 三和粥粉麵; simplified Chinese: 三和粥粉面; Jyutping: Saam1wo4 zuk1 fan2min6; pinyin: Sānhé zhōu fěnmiàn, literally "Three Harmonies Porridge and Noodles") is a Chinese restaurant located in San Francisco, California. The restaurant's first location on 813 Washington Street was famous for being a ...
Johnny Kan (1906–1972) was a Chinese American restaurateur in Chinatown, San Francisco, ca 1950–1970.He was the owner of Johnny Kan's restaurant, which opened in 1953, and published a book on Cantonese cuisine, Eight Immortal Flavors, which was praised by Craig Claiborne and James Beard. [1]
[15] [16] [17] As of December 2023, the restaurant remains the only Chinese restaurant in the United States with just one Michelin star. [18] Taylor Abrams of The Infatuation gave the restaurant 8.7 out of ten in 2016, praising its service and food. [12] Bon Appétit magazine ranked it third in the 2017 top ten Best New Restaurants list. [19]
Yank Sing is a dim sum with locations in the Rincon Center (opened in 1999) with a second location on Stevenson Street in the Financial District, San Francisco. [1]The original location open at Broadway and Powell Street, Chinatown, San Francisco in 1958 by Alice Chan. Vera Chan-Waller, her granddaughter, and husband Nathan Waller are the current owners.
John's Grill was established in 1908 [4] and was the first restaurant to open in downtown San Francisco after the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake. [5] The restaurant stands at the edge of the Tenderloin neighborhood, around the corner from the "Powell Street Cable Car Turnaround." Over the years, John's Grill has had many famous patrons. [3] The ...
One of the earliest of the now-famous restaurant guides whose ratings of the restaurants are generated by readers' comments. 1993 Zagat San Francisco Bay Area Restaurant Survey, edited by Anthony Dias Blue, Jack R. Weiner, and Eric Wald, Coordinators, Zagat Survey, New York, 1992, ISBN 0-943421-79-9. Annual update to the earlier-cited book.
The San Francisco Michelin Guide was the second North American city chosen to have its own Michelin Guide. Unlike the other U.S. guides which focus mainly in the city proper, the San Francisco guide includes all the major cities in the Bay Area: San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose and Berkeley, as well as Wine Country, which includes Napa and ...
Chinn, Thomas W. Bridging the Pacific: San Francisco Chinatown and its People. Chinese Historical Society of America, 1989. ISBN 0-9614-1983-0; Choy, Philip P. San Francisco Chinatown: A Guide to Its History & Architecture, City Lights, San Francisco, 2012. ISBN 978-0-87286-540-2