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Pier 6 Chinese Cuisine
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- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
- Take-out:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
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8 reviews for Pier 6 Chinese Cuisine
2/1/08.... no more dim sum, no more Zoe and sisters. No more fabulous food. Dad has taken it over. Enough said.
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i LOVE sohia c for turning me on to this place! I just came back from a dim sum feast and it was soooooo good, I am doing the happy dance all around the office! They have 34 items at lunch and more at dinner :0 !!!!
You get 4 pieces for $3.00 besides! The shrimp har gow were lovely tasty morsels of shrimp in a delicate dumpling. The pork siu mai was flavorful as was the light and fluffy bbq pork buns (3). Then I took back to the office for my mates, crystal dumplings (3) that had shrimp and chives in a light wrapper VERY fabulous, shangai pork dumplings(4) which taste was wonderful but the dumpling was a little thick, and shrimp/leek dumplings (4) that had more leek than shrimp, but again, the taste was great. Also 3 sesame seed balls for dessert :)
All this for under $25.00!!! It fed 4.
I can't wait to try the salt and pepper calamari!
They are renovating while it is open. Zoe, my server could use a little help. She is sweet, but is the only one serving. It got a bit harried.
I am soooooooo very happy to have found this gem!
thanks sophia!
I used to own a business near by and became very good friends with Kathy and her sisters Zoe & Sophia. Food was fine and the service was fine as well.
They are closed down for good now and I'm not sure what happened. There are rumors circulating around the neighborhood as to 'why' they closed down but I'd rather not fuel anything that isn't founded or even my business.
I will miss them as I am sure many other folks around Marin will as well.
Worst.
Those chicks... Kathy and whoever.... UN FREAKING BEARABLE.
Is this place gone now?
Good riddance if it is.
The food was weak.
Money laundering?
Mob front?
Don't come back if you're gone Pier 6.
Have you ever sliced your hand open with a plate, taken a cab to the hospital, gotten stitched up, then tried to eat crab out of the shell? Well, I have, and believe me it's really hard and at the end of the meal my bandage was covered in crab and ginger/onion sauce.
My family, along with the entire Jewish population of Marin county, does a movie and Chinese food on Christmas. Fuck trying to belong. I hate being invited to people's home for Christmas, where you're pitied for lack of Xmas tree, and are forced to watch people open their pretty presents from Santa. No, I prefer ignoring the holiday by watching cheesy blockbusters and gorging on Chinese food.
Pier 6 has been our Christmas spot for a while now. My mom prefers it because you can ask for less oil in your food, but she of course decided to complain the whole time because there was no sign of any low sodium soy sauce. Come on mom! It's freaking Chinese food! if your lips aren't coated in grease, your hair doesn't wreak like garlic, and your mouth isn't as dry as the Sahara from too much sodium, it's just not quality Chinese food.
We decided to shake things up a bit this year and order things off the menu we would never dare order if it wasn't Christmas. We got chicken pot stickers(ya, kinda boring, but something my family never treats themselves to), prawns in lobster sauce, mu-shu vegetables (the one thing I always order and refuse to live without) and crab in ginger-onion sauce.
The food was delectable, flavorful and filling, well at least the parts I could eat. The potstickers, mu-shu, prawns and steamed rice went off without a hitch. But that damn crab! My gimp hand was trying to hold the crab leg, which was coated in slippery sauce, while my other hand used a tiny fork to nab the meat. No such luck. I just kept shredding the meat until it became a stringy crabby mess. The sauce tasted good, but the fact that I just couldn't eat the crab made me want to rip my stitches out and dive headfirst into the body of the asshole crustacean!
The three star rating is also reflective on the employees. Wow, could they be any ruder? Well probably...at the dim sum place down the street they get all your orders wrong and then run to check that you paid your bill the minute you stand up. But our Pier 6 waitress never
really looked at us and wrote down our orders so fast you couldn't even tell if she heard you. We got everything we ordered, our food was hot and delicious, and our water was refilled in a timely manner. But I prefer at least a smile or a hello with my Christmas meal, even if I don't celebrate the holiday. All I wanted was a "Merry Monday"
Generic dishes are 8-10$. We had hot and spicy string beans, chicken in black bean sauce and of course home-made curry potsticker. Food is just average. Potsticker's coating has perfect texture but the filling was way to bland. You can find much yummier string beans somewhere else in San Rafael.
Service? Very terse and not inviting. Although we got everything so I won't complain much.
I tried this place just for the sake of using Marin express card. There are much better chinese places in Marin. No going back for me.
this place has been open for twenty years.this place has wonderful http://food.it has dim sum,vegetarian options and some dishes you can get oil free for those watching calories.
dishes i love:princess prawns-sweet and spicy-just like how i like my men
hot and spicy chicken-little drumettes of heaven
potstickers-homemade goodness
hot and spicy string beans
pretty much everything on the menu is good.if it says hot ,spicy,crispy or princess in the description it is all good
The staff ignores you. They rush by you, not looking at you, not checking on you---eventhough the place is empty. If you finally mange to flag someone down for a refill on water, they act like they are annoyed. I used to get the princess prawns which are delicious but the last time I got them, they tasted fishy and had an aftertaste. You can't mess with bad seafood, so I politely told the woman who owns the place who was waiting on me that the prawns tasted funny. She got an attitude and told me their prawns are fresh every day and maybe I don't know what their princess prawns taste like. i told her I've had them several times before and these didn't taste right. She snatched the plate away without even asking me if I'd like to order something else. I never went back and they lost a regular lunch customer.
Ever get the feeling you've landed on a different planet?!?
We decided to skip rushing to SF for dim sum, but try something new to us instead. Yelp helped us decide against Harmony in Strawberry, and House of Lee is familiar. Following Yelp suggestions we went to Pier 6.
It was midafternoon, so I didn't think too much about the restaurant being empty ... a woman finally came long after the entry door buzzer sounded, asked if she could help us; we said we'd like to eat, and she asked, "Here?" Yet another clue. We were still game, though. And excited to read the menu, there were some things I love I hadn't seen in years.
Some guy took our order; we ordered extra, figuring to take some home for packed lunch treats this week. We must have waited 20 minutes for the first dish, green onion pancakes made of cardboard.
Another 15 minutes waiting (really!), and some dim sum arrived. It was OK, but half of it never arrived (including the things I was excited about).
I'm thinking something bad happened and they were just in a fog, because I remember this being a good restaurant. But the dirty chair backs and shabby walls will keep me from going back.
