Thanh Long Restaurant
Vietnamese restaurant · Outer Sunset ·
World-famous garlic noodles and Dungeness crab served
World-famous garlic noodles and Dungeness crab served
"Known for fresh Dungeness crab, channeling San Francisco’s Pacific seafood riches." - Sharan Kuganesan, Oset Babür-Winter
"This Vietnamese institution in the Sunset is packed nightly with groups of friends and families in plastic bibs raising a toast with lychee martinis and waving around crab leg crackers like sparklers. Safe to say, Thanh Long is a seafood party. Pepper-coated whole roasted crabs are the centerpiece on every table, as are bowls of buttery garlic noodles that we would gladly accept in place of presents any day. Spending an evening at this spot with butter-covered fingers is a rite of passage for anyone in the city, and one you should absolutely experience for your special day." - julia chen 1, patrick wong, ricky rodriguez
"The whole roast crab from Thanh Long is Beyoncé-half-time-show-level iconic. Decades after the Sunset institution opened, the crabs covered in secret spices continue to draw crowds from all over. Matching their buttery crab meat is the equally fantastic garlic noodles, which are springy and packed with what we assume is an entire head of garlic. The dining room at this Vietnamese seafood spot is always filled with people in plastic bibs licking butter off their fingers, waving leg crackers in the air like celebratory sparklers, and devouring broiled shrimp toast, colossal tiger prawns, and other things from the sea." - lani conway, julia chen 1, ricky rodriguez, patrick wong
"At Thanh Long, the 50-year-old institution in the Sunset, you’ll spend a memorable night with a whole roast crab. Crack open the pepper-coated legs, dig out the perfectly cooked meat, and drizzle it with even more butter before licking it all off with your fingers. Of course, you’ll want to complete your dinner with a pile of Genius Grant-worthy garlic noodles—the buttery, umami-packed dish is still made in a top-secret kitchen within the main kitchen. This Vietnamese restaurant has been going strong for decades, and will probably still be when self-driving cars take over." - julia chen 1, lani conway, patrick wong
"Since 1971, this family-run Vietnamese restaurant has served some of the city’s most well-loved garlic noodles, a regional staple prized for its luxurious buttery texture. While it may be impossible to know for certain who pioneered the dish, Thanh Long Restaurant lays claim to being one of the city’s first Vietnamese restaurants and is widely accepted as being at the root of the dish’s history. The move is to order them along with a whole Dungeness crab, which will be roasted in the restaurant’s famous garlic sauce." - Paolo Bicchieri
