Yank Sing Restaurant
Pleasant surroundings, friendly staff and stellar dim sum make this downtown restaurant a special-occasion favorite.
(415) 692-6835
101 Spear St (One Rincon Ctr)
(at Mission Street)
San Francisco,
CA
94105
37.7925
-122.3939
Neighborhoods: Central East, South Beach
Reviews & Ratings for Yank Sing Restaurant
65 reviews
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THE BEST DIM SUM
by rhodarush
February 10, 2009
We have been fans of Yank Sing since they were in Chinatown, 2 locations before the Rincon Center. We always come for the fresh ingredients, consistent high quality dim sum whenever we travel to San Francisco. It is very expensive but their attention to detail, from the food to service, is admirable.
- Pros: Fresh ingredients, unusual dim sum dishes, great service, nice setting
- Cons: Expensive
Way overpriced!
by brianmbush
December 08, 2008
Very pushy dim sum cart food pushers. However, the food was excellent, I would go back there in a NY minute. Every dish we had was wonderful. Atmosphere is upscale bad Chinese restaurant, so nothing to brag about there. I just wish it wasn't so dangnummit expensive. If the bill was half the price for all the food we had, I would eat there more than once a year.
- Pros: Very quick service
- Cons: Service was at a frenzied pace, price was way too high
Western style dim sum by Donna G. at InsiderPages
Contributor
October 25, 2008
Not as authentic as I would like, but the combination of good aesthetics, good food, and not-too-spicy selection is probably the best in the Bay Area. For more authentic stuff, however, I woudl recommend ducking to an alley in Chinatown somewhere.
Overpriced!
by rrrmarie
July 25, 2008
The atmosphere is great. The waiters & waitresses are pleasant. We had reservations, so, no waiting. The food is good.
I've been wanting to eat here for several months now. Now that I've finally had lunch... I would recommend it if you want to eat at a nice and clean location. But, it's TOOOOOOOOO EXPENSIVE! It's OVER priced!!!! I couldn't believe it! I would recommend going to You's Dim Sum 675 Broadway Street instead.
- Pros: Nice & clean atmosphere
- Cons: Way over priced!
Dim Sum by Leslie A. at InsiderPages
Contributor
July 12, 2008
Dining here is an adventure. You never know what delicious food will peek out from under the lid of the bamboo steamers. Every item we tried was delicious and piping hot. It is a bit pricey though.
Great but expensive dimsum by barna d. at InsiderPages
Contributor
May 15, 2008
During weekends the line is usually very long...but we liked their food. The portions are usually small but that's how dim sum are. The jasmine tea was wonderful. The place is expensive.
Rude Maitre d' & average food = Do NOT go here
by CJTM
February 17, 2008
We waited 45 minutes mid Sunday afternoon for a table. The one thing will give this place is a pretty location. Everything else was mediocre to poor. The food was mediocre and the maitre d' was downright poor in his manner.
We drove an hour each way to try this restaurant and were very disappointed. We can certainly find better food and better service almost anywhere.
- Pros: Location is pretty
- Cons: Food, service, help is rude, promptness of being seated etc etc.
dimsum by M H. at InsiderPages
Contributor
December 13, 2007
YUMMY! This place has designer dim sum as I like to call it. It's moderately priced for the FIDI & has plenty of parking. I suggest this restaurant for parties.
so so dim sum
by kenc428
September 02, 2007
When i read about all positive rating, I was excited to go to Yang Sang since i m a dim sum lover. However, i tried it today and i was disappointed. They are not as impressive as i read. They are just average, clean, high price and overrated.. The food is not extraordinary. And for two people, easily paid for eighty bucks for dim sum which i think is little overpriced. But the location is great.
- Pros: location, clean and friendliness
- Cons: average quality dim sum, not as creative as i think, high price
Overrated, Overpriced, Underwhelming Dim Sum Experience
by normia
July 06, 2007
I went to citysearch in search of a great dim sum restaurant. Yank Sing rated extremely high with great reviews so my husband and I were really excited to taste and see if it lived up to the reviews. Sadly, we were greatly underwhelmed. We visited the Stevenson location which was a nice location with a very friendly wait staff that was extremely attentive.
I knew that our meal would be pricey from the reviews on citysearch but I thought that the meal/flavors would be worth the price. I was dissapointed that Yank Sing did not have a huge selection of dim sum to choose from: a fried cart, a steamed dumpling cart and a rice bun cart, that was it. I'm used to eating at dim sum restaurants (found in Los Angeles - Empress Pavilion/NBC) teaming with a plethora of dim sum carts of dumplings, fresh braised vegetables (we were served cold chinese broccoli at Yank Sing), noodle and soup carts, and the list goes on and on.
The flavor of the dim sum was lackluster. I felt I was eating Americanized dim sum and was left wanting a lot more. I tried their signature pork dumpling dish, which the host gladly showed me how to eat on a spoon with their signature sauce. It was, well...ok, but just ok, nothing to be blown away by from a signature dish. At the end of our meal, we paid our $75 bill and walked away thinking, well, we came, we tried, and we'll never come back. It's just not worth the price of entry.
What's funny is that, still craving the dim sum experience that I was hoping for, I went back to citysearch to look for another restaurant the next morning and found Canton Dim Sum restaurant on Folsom, just blocks from Yank Sing. Canton is not at all fancy...in fact, if you were a restaurant ambience snob, then you would not even consider walking in this outdated looking establishment. But you would be missing out on a gem of a dim sum place. Canton had 3x more dim sum variety and was only 1/3 the price compared to Yank Sing. Yumm!
- Pros: nice ambience, service friendly and prompt
- Cons: parking was $2.50 per 20 minutes, food not worth the price
