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Brother Seafood Restaurant
Category: Restaurants Chinese Chinese [Edit]
1830 Irving St(between 19th Ave & 20th Ave)
San Francisco, CA 94122
Neighborhood: Outer Sunset
(415) 661-8033
- Price Range:
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$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Parking:
- Street
- Attire:
- Casual
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
- Takes Reservations:
- Yes
- Delivery:
- No
- Take-out:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- No
- Wi-Fi:
- No
- Good For:
- Lunch, Dinner
- Alcohol:
- Beer & Wine Only
- Noise Level:
- Quiet
- Ambience:
- Casual
- Has TV:
- Yes
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
62 reviews for Brother Seafood Restaurant
Review Highlights
"...has to be the best tasting lobster noodles for the price."
(in 6 reviews)
"...Lobster Noodles, Lobster, Honey Walnut Prawns, and their..."
(in 2 reviews)
"...day for lunch :) They have dim sum for lunch that's ordered..."
(in 9 reviews)
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62 reviews in English
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Review from Shizuka L.
San Francisco, CA
1/5/2012
So I've been here with my friends and since we are frugal, we order the cheapest things, and those suck.
Unfortunately this place has some very good dishes, and some awful ones.
The great pro of this restaurant is that it's open very late. My family comes here at 11:30 or something to get a late meal.
We always order the same thing (esp. since other dishes have proved to be hit or miss). We get sautéed pea sprouts with garlic, salt fish clay pot, mabo tofu, and steam rice. Sometimes we will order the pepper cooked ribs (I think that's what it's called) or the fried chicken, and those are good.
Beware of the cheap "deals" and stuff. The banquet set things that start at $28 are actually pretty good deals and taste good. Also, beware of the lamb clay pot -- the broth and everything is good, but the meat sports thick fat pads that are pretty annoying to peel off. -
Review from Cathy K.
1/2/2012 1 photo
A sidebar: New Years Day ~ After upping the pedometers along Irving Street in search of Japanese food, it dawns on us that Japanese (and Korean) restaurants are generally closed on this day. Our choices were pretty much limited to Chinese and Vietnamese cuisine (and fast food chains). Fortunately Brother stepped in and saved us from hunger.
The service felt slo-mo, even though the roomy and sun-filled restaurant had three tables occupied (including ours). We arrived after the dim sum cut off of 3pm, so perhaps some of their staff were out on break, on holiday, or recovering from NYE?
We ordered:
- Lobster Lo Mein (see photo) - it was good, comes with some greens in a light sauce. The lobster is cut in pieces for easier no-bib-required consumption. A nice deal at $12.95.
- Eggplant with stuffed tofu & bell peppers (Item A06): this was my favorite dish. The stuffed eggplant had a nice crust on the outside with a delicious sauce. I dived right in after it landed on our table that I forgot to take a photo.
- Seafood Tofu Claypot - this was tasty. Thumbs up.
- Salt & Pepper Pork - I'm cutting down on meat these days*, so I didn't have this, except for the jalapenos sprinkled on it.
- Shrimp Dumplings with Noodles - When I ordered this, I forgot that the six dumplings usually have some kind of meat mixed in. My guess is pork. It was tasty and a bargain at $4.50.
- Beef with Greens - the greens were good.*
- Omelette with Meat - this dish was supposed to be with oysters, but they ran out and substituted pieces of meat. I tried a bit of it. It was so-so.
I'd definitely come back for A06 (a.k.a. eggplant stuffed with tofu & bell peppers). One of my favorite all time dishes.
Happy 2012! :) -
Review from Lauren Y.
San Francisco, CA
12/3/2011
I came here with some friends and at first we were planning on going to the pho place right across the street but I noticed, right before we walked into the pho place, that this place had dim sum so we changed our minds.
It was pretty empty but it was 10:30 so it's a little too early for the lunch rush. It was kind of hard for me to decide what I wanted to eat, since I'm used to the dim sum places with the carts. Pictures would have been nice too. I'm sorry for not being knowledgeable about the different dishes. Luckily my friends new what to order.
It was pretty good but the service was a little meh. They forgot one our orders, but it's all good, because it finally came. -
Review from XYZ Q.
San Francisco, CA
10/18/2011 1 Check-in Here
it was pretty good and cheap. steam pork buns good, pork ribs in bean curd source good, sponge cake good, shiu mai good, service was okay and it wasn't too crowded when i went around sunday lunch time
shrimp rice wrap (chiang feng) no good -
Review from Morris R.
San Francisco, CA
1/24/2012
Wonton noodle soup was awesome. Mongolian beef was high quality meat and not too greasy. The restaurant was clean. There are more exciting items on the menu which we have not yet tried. My one complaint: the bathroom floor was slimy. I practically skated in and out of the rest room.
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Review from beth a.
Oakland, CA
1/19/2012
Yum. Went here for a late night dinner and the food was delicious. I'm vegetarian and there were plenty of options. :)
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Review from David S.
San Francisco, CA
1/11/2012
Great late night Chinese restaurant!
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Review from Michael L.
San Francisco, CA
1/1/2012
Ate dinner here for a family gathering that took up 4 large tables. This place needs an upstairs. its only one floor with two small rooms so it does get really cramped and crowded. our rsvp was at 7pm and they wouldnt allow any of us in earlier than that. thats how crowded it gets with no wait room.
place was pretty good, ate everything that was ordered and had at least 2nds and 3rds each round. showing the portion size was good enough for a table of 10. food would come out 2 or 3 dishs at a time.
non the less place was good, nothing wow or amazing. maybe a better larger location -
Review from Morgan P.
Burlingame, CA
9/1/2011
Getting there/ Solid. That's really how I can describe it.
The Lobster Chow Mein is one of their most popular dish, and I can see why. For $12 or $13, you get a whole lobster with an extremely generous helping of noodles. The taste and flavor, unfortunately, is not novel or outstanding in any way. The lobster was fried and covered with sauce, which is how most Chinese restaurants would prepare and cook lobster with chow mein. But, I still recommend it.
I tried a couple of other dishes including fish, beef and lamb. They're pretty average tasting. Like most chinese/ seafood restaurants, their dishes are a bit too oily and salty and excessive on the juices. Portions were average, as well.
So, to end this on a positive note, TRY the LOBSTER Chow Mein. -
Review from Alex P.
Hayward, CA
7/14/2011
Whenever I see the Bro's being classy and making a brotherhood seafood restaurant, it makes this bro smile!.
I had a date with one of my bro's frat sisters. My bro told me she was really hot and was down to bro it up. I let my main bro CHAD bro Chill that No one bro's harder and longer then this BRO! Anyways I was set to meet her here for a blind date. To my surprise a few of my bro's were at the bar. I thought I would just bro it up a bit until my blind date showed up. Well drinking Seafood Restaurant beer they must lance the beer with roofies, I must of been broing out for about an hour just hanging out with the bro's! I must of blacked out or got roofied. I woke up in the back alley and a text from the girl that I had a blind date with, she text me "No one knows how to bro out harder then you" "Lets chill again bro" "Come at me bro"
Back to the review
This place know this bro all all to well, this place has an epic bar and enough room to fit all of your major bro's. The dress code is bro code or above and the food is tasty and the beer melts in your mouth and not in your bro! -
Review from Arnold T.
8/3/2011 4 Check-ins Here
The number one item I get here is the crab battered with hot peppers and garlic. At around $18 dollar crab, that's a decent deal. If it weren't for the whole stupid cholesterol issue with crab, I'd eat it a lot more. Most the samplings of entrees I've had here have been above average, yet there's nothing drawing me back besides their crab.
The décor inside is your typical run of the mill Chinese restaurant in the Sunset; except it is a little cleaner (Ok, maybe more than a little). The crew of waiters and waitress are usually friendly and personable.
I've tried a number of items from their menu and nothing is mind blowing or extraordinary that's worth mentioning. That's right...nothing besides the crab I already mentioned in the first sentence.
I have yet to try their dim sum. The only thing that's holding me back is the parking situation in the area and the busy traffic flow in these couple blocks of Irving. Overall, the food is pretty good and priced fairly; the restaurant itself needs brushing up on some personality. -
Review from Betty W.
Deceivingly cheap. The prices are low, but so are the quantities. Of course, dirt cheap dim sum is priced at like suspiciously low numbers, so this just means that Brother Seafood is regular cheap. I know, my life is hard, wah wah wah.
I'm Chinese. I was born and raised in San Francisco. So, yes girl, I've had a TON of dim sum in my lifetime. Brother Seafood ranks as simply standard. Food is served to order and hot and tasty enough as far as dim sum goes. No particular standouts to me, but a good neighborhood spot to hit up with the parents if you're in the area. Not a destination by any means.
The lobster noodles are a good deal, however - meaty pieces of lobster sauteed with a huge heaping of flat egg noodles in this tasty lobster sauce for I believe $12. If anything, get this. -
Review from J T.
CA
6/7/2011
Gogo is gone gone, and Brother has taken over. Let's hope the food is good because with all the choices in the Sunset, you need to be competitive to stick around.
Incidentally, don't you just love Chinese restaurant names in the city? It's not Brother's, possessive.. or Brothers, plural... but simply Brother, noun. Yes, I am too easily amused.
To make it less stressful, since it was our first time at Brother, we did the family size set price dinner. Whoa. It fed six of us-- with leftovers to spare. There was so much food, I didn't have the stomach capacity to try all the dishes. Or maybe I had too much soup. Anyway, it was a lovely meal. We were stuffed to the gills.
Seafood tofu soup - really good
Steamed ginger chicken - great
Mustard greens - large stalks, excellent
Walnut prawns - yummy
Fried crab - didn't try
Catfish in dark sauce - good
Sweet bean soup dessert - Now, this was funny because they kept calling it green bean, but it is not made from the vegetable most of us know as green beans. My father thinks it was mung bean. I'm still unclear on exactly what beans they were.
So, dessert soup was a kind of mildly sweet bowl of bean paste gruel, for lack of a more accurate descriptor. Mmm... bean paste gruel, yes-- how can anyone resist that delightful sounding treat? :P But it was good, try it.
Brother Seafood is a solid, pleasant neighborhood spot for Chinese. Service is excellent. They check on you frequently. Portions are generous. My mother says prices are very reasonable.
Wait staff are nice, cheerful and super-accommodating. Maybe they're all still on a grand opening high, but they could just be naturally happy friendly people here.
I'm sure I'll be back.
:D -
Review from Terry Y.
San Francisco, CA
8/25/2011
I really liked GoGo, so when I found out this place took over, I was excited to give it a try.
I came here for dinner and I wasn't really impressed. I should have read the Yelp reviews first 'cause there were pictures of the "Honey glazed walnut prawns" and it was nothing like the menu. The portions were small. I don't know why people say this place is great on portions when the pictures are painfully average to small portions.
The BBQ pork ribs were much better. A bit salty, but it was tasty.
So here is my impression of this place so far:
+1 star for the free soup and desert
+1 star on opening late
-1 star for the deceiving pictures on the menu
-1 star for the small portions. -
Review from Eric C.
San Francisco, CA
7/16/2011
The health department should shut this place down. I saw their health department score of 50 when waiting for my takeout. There was a long list of violations. In LA that would equal an F rating which means closure.
The food is mediocre tasting at best, though the quality of their meats is very low grade. -
Review from Audrey T.
5/13/2011 2 photos
Came here with my aunt and uncle for lunch last week. I had never even heard of Brother Seafood Restaurant prior to our visit, though I'm sure I've walked past it on numerous occasions. I definitely didn't expect for them to be serving dim sum. It was a weekday so there was no wait, and we got some nice seats in the back by the fish tanks. (Some fish looked like they were dying.)
We ordered fish congee, chicken pan fried noodles, and about eight different kinds of dim sum. The fish congee was a tad too salty, but it had pretty good flavor, and this is coming from someone who dislikes porridge. The pan fried noodles weren't as crispy as I liked, but very saucy. As for the dim sum, everything was pretty typical, but their portions are smaller compared to other restaurants'. The siu mai, for example, were tiny compared to the plump, juicy ones I can get at Happy Bakery.
Btw, I would avoid the restrooms. On a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being the most repulsive, nastiest bathroom I've ever seen, this one's a niner. -
Review from S L.
San Francisco, CA
5/7/2011
Just a note: Dim sum until 3pm
Their set meal for 4 people for $28 is so worth it. They let me swap out the spare ribs with one of my favorite dishes, salt and pepper pork chops with no problem. Dishes average around $7-$8 here but this set was still worth it. The portions are large!
Egg and pork soup
Beef and vegetables -
Salt and pepper pork chops - Flavorful!
Salt and pepper prawns
Fried fish (sole) - Great dish that i recommend
Rice included
Red bean dessert
Sounds like i should watch my cholesterol judging from this heavily salted menu :) -
Review from Janice T.
7/19/2011 6 photos
I am a fan of their $10.99 LOBSTER and NOODLE dish every lunch til 3PM (dine in only).
Meaty lobster and moist el dente wet noodles with seafood broth. Delicious.
I recommend going on Sundays and avoiding meter parking.
Tea per person is $.50, but if you want to avoid paying tea price, order water and order another noodle. If you don't order a dim sum item, they are not suppose to charge you $.50 per person for tea fee. However, their dim sum is fairly decent, so it is not bad to try it either.
They have several large 10 person tables, so if you want to do large group brunch, try this place. -
Review from Alex C.
San Mateo, CA
7/29/2011
Came here the other night with a friend after watching a movie because it was the only Chinese restaurant I could find on Yelp that was decent and was still open after 10pm. Although it was only the two of us, I was absolutely starving by the time we sat down due to skipping lunch earlier that day. So instead of two dishes, we got the dinner for 4 that consisted of soup, a beef w/ vegetables dish, some ribs, prawns, fried sole, and finally a bean dessert.
The food overall was pretty good but I was slightly disappointed at the serving size of the fried prawns. For a serving meant for 4 ppl, the plate was only about a 1/4th full. And between the two of us, we were able to finish it all. Also, while the deep fried sole was very crunch and good with the soy sauce it came in, I was extremely disappointed in the fact that there was virtually NO meat on the fish at all. I can only assume that this fish was extremely starved and skinny prior to being picked and fried.
$28 however for 6 items was definitely a great deal. While I wouldn't recommend Brother's to someone looking for a GREAT dining experience with Chinese cuisine, this is a great place for decent food without hurting the pocketbook. -
Review from Julie D.
Berkeley, CA
5/25/2011
My boyfriend and I like eating here when we want a cheap meal -- we can easily split a plate and get a filling dinner for less than 5 bucks/person. Their Hong Kong-style crispy noodles is our favorite dish, though to be totally honest, I probably wouldn't be able to tell theirs from any other Chinese restaurant. The service and cleanliness here is a noticeable improvement from other such joints, though. We especially like the late-night servers -- really nice.
However, I've got an axe to grind with Brother... I ordered their won-ton noodle soup to go recently. First of all, the wait was pretty long for Chinese take-out (15 minutes). Secondly, as I was enjoying my soup, I noticed a very gritty taste whenever I bit into my wontons. The wonton wrappers pulled away to reveal... huge (huge!) black veins in the shrimp. I understand deveining shrimp is pretty labor-intensive, and probably not worth it for your average cheap restaurant -- but come on, Brother, you've got Seafood in your name! Could the poop chutes on the shrimp have been any bigger and worse-tasting? Appetite ruined. -
Review from Sharon H.
San Francisco, CA
6/19/2011 1 Check-in Here
My out of town friend who happened to be staying right by Brother Seafood took us here. We ate dinner the first night and was quite impressed with the food quality + prices. My favourite was the stuffed eggplant and tofu.
We actually enjoyed dinner so much that we came back again the next day for lunch :) They have dim sum for lunch that's ordered (rather than push cart). It was pretty good quality was well but not as good as the dinner food so I'm giving them 4 stars. -
Review from Sue Y.
4/4/2011 5 Check-ins Here
Despite the name changes, this place is always open for late night (closes at 1am) cheap Chinese food.
Went with my mom for lunch, and enjoyed a massive lobster noodle dish ($10.99 till 3pm, $12.99 rest of day). Super fresh lobster with loads of fresh egg noodles drenched in sauce. It was so massive. It could've fed both my mom and I.
We also ordered the sampan congee with scallops, shrimp, calamari and peanuts (merely $4.00) was also really delicious. -
Review from Marlon R.
San Francisco, CA
10/25/2011
Lobster noodles is a must. I also recommend the beef with dry string beans.
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Review from Jessica H.
San Francisco, CA
1/13/2011
Eh. I've been here twice for lunch/dim sum and it's pretty much eh. Their service is slow, so the line at the door is not because it gets crowded. But the pro side to that is that everything is made to order.
The lobster noodles were okay. Flavorful, but more lobster would be nice. The chicken feet (which is basically the 1 dish that I always need) was alright, definitely on the lower end. The foil wrapped chicken is good, as well as the sesame balls (crunchy, which is something you don't usually get)
I really don't care for this place. But I also feel as though this has been my recent attitude for dim sum. -
Review from Burnadette S.
Burlingame, CA
9/20/2011
I'm not a huge fan of going to these types of family style cantonese restaurants. But my parents wanted to try this place and so we came for dinner on a sunday night. Before coming, I did my homework and checked out the reviews on yelp. I was very skeptical mostly because of the unsanitary comments about this place, but my parents insisted on coming. They didn't care about pest problems.
We ordered a lot of food: crab, shrimp, fish, chicken, pea shoot, mustard greens, giant clams, squab. They were all decent. The shrimp was the best dish of all of them. Service was good. Because we had a lot of shells and bones from the food, they came and gave us new plates. The free dessert was not good. The mango in the mango pudding was still firm. Yuck. -
Review from Wilson N.
San Francisco, CA
4/9/2011
The waitress that served me was rather rude and inflexible about altering simple dishes to make them vegetarian-friendly.
Bad place for a vegetarian to go, considering that they can't even give you tofu in your vegetable fried rice. -
Review from Patrick C.
San Francisco, CA
8/23/2011 2 Check-ins Here
Love their frog leg jook...i get that almost everytime. Their seafood pretty good too...it is usually fresh straight from their aquarium tank. I get their steamed fish most of the time. Sometimes they have geo-duck...i get it sashimi style and use the head to make soup. They only have this once in awhile though. They also do special requests of things that are not on the menu...that's a plus. They are also open late...till 1am...that's another plus.
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Review from Matthew M.
San Francisco, CA
3/24/2011 8 photos
Service with a BIG smile! Give that it was the weekend of Chinese New Year we expected Brother Seafood Restaurant to be packed. However it seemed a bit ridiculous when the table next to us got all their food back to back while we only received an appetizer. We placed our order just seconds after them. If anything they should have provided us with more than our appetizer to munch on while we waited for our food to be served. We waited for what felt like an hour before our food started coming out. During our wait time we were greeted quite often with a BIG smile letting us know our food should be coming soon. That sure made it much harder for us to get upset for the long wait.
Overall the food was pretty good, it's great for the price and definitely a go to place for casual eats. They sure know how to put a great amount of quality in what they do. My favorite dishes here so far are the Lobster Noodles, Lobster, Honey Walnut Prawns, and their seafood noodle dish (Prawns, Mushroom, Scallop). -
Review from Luis C.
8/7/2010 1 photo
Open until 1am!
I visited this Chinese restaurant (replaced Go Go Cafe) that recently opened. The space is very clean with good bright lights inside. Same owner as New Hing Lung on Noriega, I recognized one of the waiters from the other restaurant. The manager was very welcoming and friendly. It's cold that night so I wanted something tasty and warm, was glad to see the menu listed a dozen versions of rice porridge (congee) for $4, and a dozen noodles soups under $6. So far the food taste has been decent, plates look good and the ingredients were fresh - for example, the snow peas on one dish were bright green and super tender.
This menu (HK style cuisine) is shorter than what u get at NHL, also haven't seen any banquet menus yet. You'll find many familiar Chinese menu items like westlake soup (on the menu as minced beef and egg flower soup), kung pao dishes ("kung bow" on the menu), mongolian beef, etc. The menu is clear and well written, without any funny "Engrish" translations found elsewhere. I should mention that "haslet" means internal organs.
The dining room is divided by a partial wall - the left side with large tables and a LCD TV on the wall was packed with customers that night, while the quieter right side with smaller tables only had a pair of dinners. It's becoming popular with locals because most items are priced $4-$8, with only a few in the $10 range. Only the "Chef Recommendations" white board on the wall (written in Chinese) lists many expensive items (+$20) - mostly live seafood from the tanks in the back, priced by the pound.
I'm sure that someone will probably wanna write a joke for the Fook Kin fried rice on their reviews. Yes, the f/k cooking is good, although nothing really stands out.
I give it 3.5 stars, plus extra points for being open late.
Hours: daily 10am-1amListed in: Open Late
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Review from Lea may K.
Suisun City, CA
7/5/2011 1 Check-in Here
If you plane on visiting this place and want to NOT know what you're eating, than this is the place for you!! My friends and I decided to try this place out since it was open on the Fourth of July in the middle of the night. We were all in the mood for soup and an entree. We ordered two different soups (Won ton and Hot and sour), Walnut shrimp, a type of broccoli, and some kinda noodle. When we tried to order, we tried to ask out waitress what was in some plates, she completely ignored us. service + food = EEK! Me thinks not!
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Review from Antoinette S.
San Francisco, CA
8/25/2010
THANK GOD THAT GO-GO CAFE REOPENED !!!!!!!
It's prettier AND the food is better.
*See my review of original Go-Go then add a bonus for tastier,fresher,and bigger portions-yup, the salt and pepper squid was mammoth...
Only drawback-they keep running out of the Jumbo oysters!! They told us right before our takeout order was ready. Grrrrr,we were seriously ready for some bigboys with blackbean garlic sauce-big disappointment.
TELL US BEFORE YOU FILL THE ORDER IF YOU DON'T HAVE ENOUGH FOOD, 'K???!!!!!!!
Dudes,Brothers-order MORE!!!! -
Review from Kat W.
Millbrae, CA
9/29/2010
We went late at night around midnight after a long day of various moving things and decided to eat here. It turned out to be pleasantly good and affordable!
Nice hot-hot tea for starters. We ordered the lotus root and duck sausage, house chow fun, won ton noodle soup, fook yuen(spell check?) fried rice, and braised tofu with mushrooms. So we ordered a heckuv-a-lot for three people!! For some reason I was expecting small plates or something but boy did we have leftovers.
The chow fun was not super greasy like I'm used to finding at Chinese restaurants, and neither was the food as salty as I was expecting. Of course, my being a rice lover I had no problem eating heaping scoops of rice with the leftovers. Yum. The soup was pleasantly tasty with a fat piece of shrimp in each dumpling, by the way, and the noodles weren't bad either.
I also want to mention how fast the service is too! Considering our disappointing experience at Xiao Long Bao in South San Francisco we ordered a bit on the safe side I suppose, but we weren't disappointed!
Accessibility is again up a little slope into the place and the door was a little difficult for me to go through on my own due to narrowness and ended up getting it opened for me. Watch out for the tables because they can fold out but that folded down bit might end up scraping the legs or resting on legs. As we only were here on a late night the place was pretty empty so there was no trouble moving inside but maybe when it's more crowded one would be less inclined to move around. Don't know about the bathroom but it looked like a narrow hallway down to it. -
Review from Ty L.
San Francisco, CA
12/4/2010 1 Check-in Here
I loved Go Go Cafe when it was here because the food was good, relatively cheap, the portions are good, and they were open late. I'm happy to say that when Brother took over, very little of this was lost.
My favorite dishes here are the salt and pepper spare-ribs, clams with black bean sauce, and honey and walnut prawns.
Overall, if you're looking for a good, quick, and no frills place to eat with sizable portions, then you can't go wrong with Brothers! :D -
Review from Casey H.
Sacramento, CA
5/16/2011 1 Check-in Here
Great prices on set meals. Wonderful service and food! Very good sized portions, we had five people and we still had leftovers.
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Review from Helmut S.
San Francisco, CA
8/1/2010
I was worried a few months when I saw that the old Go Go Cafe spot had paper over the windows and dust settling over the door - the death of a solid bargain bite spot is always a sad thing.
But the new occupants have good mojo. Brother's has that nice mom and pop Chinese vibe going for it. Clean, but not to sanitized, new interior that still has a comfortable dingy feel, as if the paint and furnishings all came pre aged. Or used, who knows, but its nice nonetheless.
Food is solid, no fru fru, very traditional down to the mis spellings all over the menu and the ubiquitous problem with plurals (Crispy Squids) present in the best of old skool SF Chinese joynts.
My buddy and I were hungry late, and Brother's was serving at midnight. We had the Foo Kin Fried Rice and pun very much intended it was Fookin solid! Nice tasty gravy, chopped assortment of mushrooms, & assorted meats& seafood, very filling. We also had an order of salt pork chops with peppers, decent, but not salty enough. As I write this I also realzied we had ordered the above mentioned squids, and it never made it to our table. Hey, we had had a few drinks, it was late and I am old. I will have to go back for them, and I will. Watch the waiter though, in addition to my squids I had to remind him twice to get me my diet coke...but that sort of late night somnambulist again is par for the course in this kind of place. I will be going back...though if Nick's Kitchen is open right next door the Taco's will definitely give the Fookin Fried rice a run for its money. -
Review from Tyrone L.
San Francisco, CA
8/23/2011
I really like this restaurant. The restaurant is clean and the staff are friendly. If they mess up on your order, tell anyone working there and they'll make what you want without the extra charge. Get the fried crab. Peace&love
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Review from S S.
San Francisco, CA
8/6/2010
This is located at the former GoGo restaurant, some old waiter and maybe chef is still working at the restaurant. Per SFWeekly this is own by New Hing Lung on Noriega.
Host is very friendly. The atmosphere, all clean up, no big bar, or Aquarium and the old coral at the front of the window. Restroom very clean and no smell.
Food quality, if you enjoy the old place, then you will enjoy the new place more. Seafood fresh, and other food up to standard. I do not give a 5 star unless they are way and beyond all services. I had gone back numerous times already, and happy with them. I hope they ad pictures and I will add the food picture soon. -
Review from Tyler C.
San Francisco, CA
10/5/2010 2 Check-ins Here
This place replaced Go-go cafe, and it's like a cheaper, homelier version of it. The food is good, the portions are huge, and the prices are decent. It gets pretty packed and the patrons are asian, so you know it's decent chinese food. The service is also pretty good and fast for a place that gets this crowded. I also like how they give you free soup and dessert with your meal.
They must have different chefs because I've ordered the fried tofu with mushrooms and it's looked different all 4 times that I've gotten it. It was pretty good 3 out of the 4 times, so it's become a staple. I also get the snow pea sprouts here and the beef with chinese broccoli. Both of these were cooked well. However, I got the sauteed scallops once, and I'd say to avoid it. The dish didn't come with many scallops and for the price they charge for it...pass it for some of the other seafood dishes.
Oh and this place is open really late, so that's another big plus. -
Review from Anthony T.
San Francisco, CA
7/30/2011
I would give this place 3.5 stars. If they back off on the corn starch, I would give it 4 stars.
My friend likes this place because he orders steamed broccoli with garlic and loves it. How hard is that? Okay, I have had my share of "cooked to death" veggies. It's not on the menu, he just ordered it one day.
House Special Chow Fun. Lots of seafood and meat, but too much corn starch in the gravy. Messy me spilled some on my sweater and it just sat there like, something from your nose. Otherwise, tasty and seafood not over cooked.
Minced Beef and Egg Drop Soup. I don't think you can fit any more corn starch in there. My 4 year old loved it.
Chicken Feet in Black Bean sauce. Pretty good. Again not over cooked and tasty.
Mixed Vegetables. Fried Tofu, Bok Choy and Deep Fried Bamboo Shoots. Again with the Corn Starch! What, you buy it by the barrel? The bamboo shoots looked and had the texture of deep friend pork skin. Yummy! Tastes sinful.
$27 not including tax and tip. Service was good, compared to many Chinese restaurants. -
Review from Brady K.
San Francisco, CA
2/13/2011
Tickle me impressed that on a Sunday night Brother Seafood was packed to the gills. Maybe this is poor form, but I typically size up the authenticity of a restaurant's food based on the makeup of the diners - here I felt I was in for a treat.
But it all went horribly horribly wrong when I ordered a dish not on the menu, spicy eggplant with shrimp. I'm a vegetarian who eats seafood and figured I'd get some eggplant and a protein more interesting than tofu. Turns out I got more than I bargained for. When the dish arrived it had long strands of pork, but no shrimp. Strike one, wrong order and bonus pork. We explained that they got the order wrong, that we requested shrimp not pork. The waiter apologized and whisked away our dish. 5 minutes later the *same* dish returned, eggplant more mushy, with some shrimp garnishing the top.
Assuming there had been a breakdown in communication and that the standard spicy eggplant dish always had pork, I tried to make myself crystal clear - "I'm really sorry for the confusion, but I'm a vegetarian who eats seafood. I don't eat pork. Can we get a dish containing just eggplant, shrimp and the spicy sauce?"
Again we were reassured this was not a problem and presto 5 minutes later the *same* dish reappeared with super soggy eggplant and some of the pork plucked out. WTF? Talk about lazy and cheap.
Overall the flavor of the dishes was tasty, and I liked the vibe of the place. But leaving pork in a vegetarian's dish is so not cool.
2.5 * stars
