Papa's Kitchen

get the papa's chicken wings, string beans, garlic broccoli and/or mejin prawns if you tryna be on the healthier side. bomb and great service.

Stumbled across Papa's Kitchen when we were looking for a bite to eat on the way to Golden Gate Park. The restaurant was clean and spacious, the server was very sweet, and they gave large portions. We got the cream cheese puffs and vegetable chow fun. The puffs were pretty standard, I liked the addition of extra flavor in the cream cheese filling. I thought the chow fun was average, a bit too salty for my liking.

It was a very pleasant experience to come here!

Pretty standard fare Chinese place with reasonable prices and big portions.

Seafood combo pan fried noodles were actually pretty good. I don't get this dish often but the sauce was pretty flavorful and it came with lots of seafood (fish, scallops, shrimp, squid) and veg (bok choy, snow peas, carrots, mushrooms)

Sweet and sour pork was disappointing. The sauce was pretty good but the pork itself was really overfried and to the point of being dry / stringy.

I'd still go back to try different items and it isn't a place that breaks the bank.

After we started eating we found a harmless bug on our plate. The restaurant looked very clean overall. Earwigs exist in a lot of different places. My issue is simply this, once you discover one bug, there are usually more violations hanging out. Having worked in a kitchen, I know what it takes to keep it clean.

One little bug on a plate of spring rolls, we're not shook! However, the food was nothing amazing. This place is super average.

Having traveled the world, dining in major cities all over this planet, I know what happens behind that kitchen door isn't always something you want to see. I've seen mice running through deli counters, dead fruit flies in soy sauce, dogs standing on butcher tables in night markets chewing on carcasses. Flies surrounding piles of ground beef.

It's a family owned restaurant, and I had high expectations. We ordered a lot of things, and I have mixed feelings. My favorite is absolutely the fried rice. There is a scent to it that cannot be replicated at home. The big wok in a restaurant can only achieve it. The fried chicken wings are good as well. The second tier is orange chicken and the spring rolls. My least favorite is the lemongrass garlic noddles and the hunan fish filet. There is no garlic nor Hunan flavors. They all kinda taste the same at the end. Would I come back? Probably not. There are plenty of places in the haughty.

Rainy day Saturday and looking for a spot close by. We scanned Papa's Kitchen's menu in the window and they had lunch specials until 4pm.

The server was sweet and brought menus and water immediately. We settled on Mapo Tofu, Sweet & Sour Pork and fresh Vietnamese Grilled Pork Rolls.

Portions were generous though the Mapo Tofu lacked heat as promised by the chili pepper next to its listing. If you order it, ask if they can add Szechuan peppercorns.

The other dishes were solid, we split family style and I called dibs on the second to last cold pork roll that had fresh pea sprouts poking out of the roll, delicious.

The restaurant was clean with a large dining room including a counter if you want to slurp your pho and look out at Haight Street.

I would definitely return or do take out from this spot.

I really disliked this place. We ordered the "Vietnamese Style Fried Egg Roll," pho tai, and a pork chop dish. The lady with the poufy short bob was crazy rude. I asked her what the difference was between the rice plate vs the a la carte versions of the "Grill Pork Chop." I thought it was a little weird that the a la carte version costs more than the rice plate so I asked if there was more pork chop/more meat in that version and she scoffed at me, acted like I was dumb, and kind of nodded in the affirmative. I have no idea why this question pissed her off.

She ended up bringing us the "Vegetable Spring Rolls" which I really don't like. At first, I was annoyed that they were trying to pass these off as Vietnamese Egg Rolls. When I finally flagged her down and asked her about them, she said they were vegetarian egg rolls. She put in the incorrect order! I got the feeling she wasn't really listening when my husband ordered the dish and I guess I was right. The pho tai was okay.

Rude service and just meh pan Asian food. The owners need to retrain their staff. It's sad considering I could see the kitchen staff was really hustling when I walked to the restroom. If you want Vietnamese food don't go to this place. They have Americanized Chinese food too, but there are so many alternative restaurants in the area.

No fuss, great service, fresh food! The green beans were delicious, not too soggy, and had tiny fried onions and peppers, the vegetable delight had a nice combination of vegetables with some bok choy and celery which is some of my favorites, also the tofu was cooked really well!

We walked in with a big group around 8pm on New Year's Eve and they sat us down immediately! They closed at 9 but didn't rush us and had fast service. We ordered a bunch of staples including eggplant, cucumber salad, stir fried veggies, and chow mein noodles. It was all delicious, sizable, and reasonably priced! The staff was so kind & they were hard at work, and not even some side eye or a sigh about us coming in a little under an hour before they closed up shop. I'm definitely coming back here anytime I'm craving some tasty, oily Chinese food!

AVOID by all means! RUDEST SERVICE of the exceptional kind by server named Fiona. She will talk back to customers as if to ridicule and scold you! And by our experience now and in the past, she greatly excels and enjoys being RUDE! What kind of customer service is that where the service talks back to customers in their best rudest manner, and even on our way out? Wow, they should ought to be absolutely ashamed. We COMPLETELY LOST OUR APPETITE, paid, walked out absolutely regretting giving this place our business. And by the way, this is the first time we've been in a Chinese restaurant where HOT TEA IS NOT AVAILABLE!! How hugely ridiculous is that, NO HOT TEA, it's almost a huge joke!