Eight Tables by George Chen
Chinese restaurant · North Beach
8 Kenneth Rexroth Pl, San Francisco, CA 94133
Highlights
Upscale Chinese tasting menu with creative cocktails
Upscale Chinese tasting menu with creative cocktails
"For a more high-end experience, Eight Tables will serve a six-course meal featuring luxe items such as XO rice claypot with black truffle, foie gras, and Iberico ham, plus Very Special Smoked Garlic Chicken with foraged mushrooms, gai lan, and a sauce made with Hennessy V.S. Tables are available February 10 through 24 from 5:30 to 9 p.m. and the menu costs $300 per person. Reservations can be made via Tock." - Dianne de Guzman
"George Chen of China Live openly says he was hoping for two stars, but Eight Tables by George Chen was overlooked again this year." - Becky Duffett
"A George Chen-led fine-dining Cantonese concept in Chinatown that was notably omitted from the Michelin selections, an exclusion that some found surprising given its culinary focus." - Eater Staff
"The upscale, second-floor restaurant inside a larger Chinese marketplace saw its staffing decimated during repeated pandemic closures, losing key cooks and suffering the kind of talent drain that made restoring prior service levels difficult; the experience underscores how vulnerable fine-dining operations have been to prolonged instability and workforce attrition." - Elazar Sontag
"A dedicated eight-table fine-dining tasting room within the larger multi-venue operation that offers an intimate multi-course tasting experience; it temporarily lowered its price to encourage demand during reopening (from $225 down to $175) and later returned to prior pricing. The team is specialized and largely separate from the downstairs operations, it largely stopped doing to-go service to protect quality, and it has seen steady bookings even amid uncertainty about high-end dining demand." - Amanda Kludt
