R & G Lounge
Chinese restaurant · Chinatown
631 Kearny St, San Francisco, CA 94108
Highlights
Celebrated Cantonese grub, known for salt & pepper crab
Celebrated Cantonese grub, known for salt & pepper crab
"This multi-story Cantonese seafood restaurant in Chinatown has been going strong since 1985, so it’s hard to find a person in the city who doesn’t have fond memories of sitting at one of the banquet tables and passing around plates of shrimp with scrambled eggs and baked Chilean sea bass. The most iconic dish here, though, is the salt and pepper crab, a flat-out stunning head-turner. Lightly fried legs are piled up underneath the shell, with crunchy seasoning that we want to put on everything—rolling up your sleeves to suck out tender crab meat and eat every last bit of of breading is a rite of passage here." - lani conway, julia chen 1, ricky rodriguez, patrick wong
"Since opening in 1985, this Cantonese restaurant in Chinatown has stood as the backdrop to countless graduation parties, wedding banquets, and dinners with coworkers who just spent the entire day losing brain cells at some FiDi corporate event. This place is a multi-story maze made up of several dining rooms, a full bar, and hosts who communicate through earpieces (shepherding you through a seafood-filled evening is serious business). Big round tables are in the main dining areas—once you’re seated, let the salt and pepper crab, which arrives with a mountain of crunchy fried legs, should be the first thing you order." - julia chen 1, patrick wong
"A classic Chinatown Cantonese restaurant in operation since 1985, offering an extensive menu of over 150 dishes while hiring from and sourcing products within the local community. Signature picks include salt-and-pepper Dungeness crab, crispy roasted Peking duck, and steamed egg custard with clams." - Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner
"Known for salt-and-pepper Dungeness crab and other elegant Cantonese dishes, R & G is a Chinatown staple, especially for seafood lovers and connoisseurs of Chinese-style roasted poultry. This three-story restaurant’s dining rooms are bustling, and takeout and app-based delivery are available." - Dianne de Guzman
"Everyone has a story about some occasion they celebrated at R&G Lounge, whether you’re talking to your parents’ parents or a recent graduate who was born in the 2000s. The Cantonese seafood legend is a standby for birthdays, wedding banquets, and coworker bonding events—it’s a multi-floor maze of white tablecloths, fish tanks, and staff who communicate via earpiece. Get the roasted crab on your table, along with the Peking duck served with pillowy bao, and keep the lychee martinis coming." - julia chen 1, patrick wong, ricky rodriguez
