Citrus Club
San Francisco, CA 94117-2808
Phone: (415) 387-6366
- Price:
- $
- Cross Street:
- Shrader Street
- Hours:
- Sun-Thu 11:30am-10pm, Fri-Sat 11:30am-11pm
Editorial Review for Citrus Club – by Citysearch Editors
The Scene
A casual eatery smack-dab in the Upper Haight, the Citrus Club has an almost Polynesian feel, subtly lit by flickering candles and clever lamps made from conical Vietnamese straw hats. Tables are well-spaced, and friendly young staff shuttle in and out of the two small dining rooms to the sounds of cool jazz and funky world beats.
The Food
Starters are an eclectic mix of classics--Vietnamese imperial rolls, divine wok-fried Chinese greens with shiitake mushrooms and more creative inventions like a cold salad of Japanese buckwheat noodles mixed with carrots and cucumbers in a spicy lime-and-coconut dressing. Main courses come in two categories: noodle soups and wok-tossed noodles. Among the former, the pho-ga (Vietnamese chicken noodle soup) tastes mild and soothing--lighter than your standard chicken soup--and is loaded with thin rice noodles, slices of chicken, cilantro and chopped vegetables.
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Insider Tips
What to DrinkTry the sake cocktails. They come in a variety of flavors, served in oversized martini glasses.
Save TimeIf you call ahead, you can get your noodles to go.
User Reviews for Citrus Club
11/30/2007 Posted by misswendysf
Got take out, went home, ate about half (I did at once point notice what looks like a bunch of brown mush but I don't even want to think about that cuz I mixed it in and likely ate it), after half the soup I stir and a WORM comes to the top. It was either a giant maggot or a caterpillar. So after gagging and brushing my teeth I call them and they are like "Oh it must have been in the vegeatables, do you want to come get something else?" Are you kidding? I then checked Yelp and there are numerous reports of rodents in the dining area, "crunchy dark things" in the spring rolls. Gross. Calling the Health Inpsector Monday.
Pros: cheap, good lighting
Cons: not clean food
02/19/2007 Posted by beachan
My boyfriend took me here for Valentine's Day (also my B-day) as a surprise. I heard so many positive things about this place, that I was really happy. The wait wasn't too bad because we chose to sit at the counter. Menu came, we chose an appetizer of Beef skewers, one of the special items (Garlic-Ginger Chicken on a bed of stirfried noodles with bok choy) and and item on the regular menu (Stirfried Spicy Curry Tiger Prawns). The skewers came first, and they were slightly burnt. The meat itself had a very odd texture to it, almost not beef tasting. It wasn't really marinated properly, just tasted like someone just slapped on some beef on a BBQ and served it to us. The dipping sauce of peanut something was bland as well. As for the main dishes, my boyfriend's dish, which sounded so delicious, basically (I swear I'm not making this up) tasted like, again, someone throwing some chicken on the BBQ and serving it to us. The chicken was placed on a bed of noodles which tasted more like teriyaki noodles with bok-choy than garlic-ginger. No meaningful flavors in the mouth, just teriyaki and grilled chicken. My dish, had no Tiger Prawns. Tiger Prawns are big. My little shrimp were the medium size ones you buy at a grocery store. The dish basically consisted of this: Noodles that had some curry "soup" poured over it and shrimp thrown in. Top that off with Chili Powder and you have spicy. However, again, no medley of flavors dancing around in my mouth. If you took the noodles alone and ate them, they tasted bland. You had to skillfully grab the noodles and "soup" to get the flavor. Overall, the dinner tasted very amateur. If you've never eaten really good food, then you won't know what I'm talking about. The price is good, the food is really average though. I'm an optimist and gave Citrus Club another try with some friends, and again, I walked out disappointed. Between the 8 of us, nothing really was phenominal. Go to Le Soleil instead
Pros: Cheap food with big servings. Nice ambience for you and your friends.
Cons: Not very tasty, even bland. The food is ok - nothing to write home about.
