Chow
San Francisco, CA 94114
Phone: (415) 552-2469
- Price:
- $$
- Cross Street:
- Market Street
- Specialties:
- Cheap Eats
- Best of Citysearch:
- Cheap Eats 2008, Salad 2007
- Hours:
- Mon-Thu 11am-11pm , Fri 11am-12am , Sat 10am-12am , Sun 10am-11pm
Editorial Review for Chow – by Stephanie Rosenbaum
The Scene
With dark-green walls, wooden floors and crowded tables, this friendly restaurant looks like it's been around forever. Only a few years old, it's already a neighborhood institution, busy from lunchtime through closing thanks to easy pricing, a something-for-everyone menu and a casual vibe.
The Food
The low prices belie the high quality of the all-American food. The menu offers all-American staples like heaping bowls of spaghetti and meatballs, a great cobb salad, and a Burger Royale with cheese. The comfort food noodles, salads and entrees have gotten fresher and more seasonal, while specials, like Moroccan-spiced duck leg with couscous or grilled sea bass with mashed potatoes, get more and more interesting. For dessert, indulge in a slice of butterscotch-banana cream pie.
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Insider Tips
Where to SitA long string of counter seats accommodate a high volume of solo diners.
Know Before You GoThe busiest time for Chow is right around 7pm and reservations are not accepted.
Save TimeCall ahead to place your order to go.
User Reviews for Chow
07/12/2008 Posted by unclebad
Every plate is better than the last at Chow. The service is friendly, and the diner ambience is strangely fun without being kitschy like so many other diner knock-offs. Just a few steps from the lively corner of Market and Church, Chow fits into the neighborhood perfectly, yet the atmosphere and vibe inside of Chow welcomes you even if you are a uniquely white, middle aged, straight guy without any piercings or tattoos, as is my current predicament., And that's why I like this place. Here at Chow, everyone is at home. I feel like George Castanza at Monk's hanging out with my friends Kramer and Elaine, all the while enjoying equal parts of goat cheese fondue, home made wontons, Argentinian Albarino, and a good heapin' helpin' of SF diversity. (If I were Darth Cheney's gay illegitimate son, this is where I'd bring Dad for lunch to show him that San Francisco values are actually pretty cool. Don't worry -- I'd make him leave his guns at home so nobody would get accidentally shot.) Hanging out and enjoying a meal at Chow is why so many of us don't live in Kansas any more. Thanks, Chow, for being a piece of that, and your wontons are wonderful! uncleBad says eat at one of the window tables and enjoy the street circus outside while you have a great meal at one of San Francisco's coolest hangs.
Pros: great place to hang, love the food
03/11/2008 Posted by msimmons111
I have been going to Chow for years and I always have a yummy meal there. The service is consitant and overall pretty good.. I enjoy pretty much everything on the menu and it's always affordable....
Pros: good food, affordable
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