At Smile House Cafe we offer authentic Hong Kong style food and desserts! Best for quick lunch/afternoon tea, and also dinner. Reasonable price. We are a good place to chill out with friends. The key to our success is simple: providing quality consistent food that taste great every single time...
1030 Taraval St (btwn 20th & 21st Ave) San Francisco , CA 94116 United States
Reservations | No |
Credit Cards | No |
Outdoor Seating | No |
Menus | Brunch, Lunch, Dinner |
Iced "champagne " milk tea , pretty good in SF standard: rich flavor & smooth (but not too much better than average milk tea you can find in any cafe in Hong Kong).. Still grateful to have this here! ????
Tan pan beef w/rice is amazing, it cooks ON the plate while you wait. The rice is sauced internally and the heat spreads the flavor through the rice .
Slide fish noodle in shark bone soup : love the white broth (tasty)! But the Chinese Name is deceptive as there's no 魚片頭, it's fish filet instead... Pretty good anyways! ????????
Can't believe I'm only trying this "Serradura" (“sawdust” in Portuguese) pudding (a Macau dessert ) for the first time! The "sawdust" are layers of Marie biscuit crumbs between pudding . Only ok...
Open late . Cash only . Service is slow and gets pretty busy with line/wait around dinner time. Pretty good hainan chicken rice and cute egg pudding in egg shells (may sell out early).
2018/12 Just realized they raised their price on almost EVERYTHING! No word...
The beef tendon is SO YUMMY I think I'm addicted! Ordered an add-on for my noodles for $2! ????????????????
Taiwanese beef noodles : tender meat & tendon ! Yum! ????????
Smile House Living Combo: have 3 tiny desserts , good for sampling.
Tofu pudding : tiny & light but yummy! ????
Curry beef brisket w/ Chinese rice crispy : yum! ????????????
Gotta try the champagne milk tea ! It has a distinct taste!
We came in, and was given a table. We sat then there for 5 mins waiting for the menu. -__- however, the upside is that the food is pretty good.
2018/12 The mango coconut noodles was NOT fresh at all, taste a bit funny (alcohol like so it probably had gone bad)! Hope I won't get sick after tasting this, ugh! Was ownership changed?
Green Tea Red Bean Pudding : love it! ????????
For WiFi , look for a hotspot called Cisco something. The password is password.
Salty fish & diced chicken fried rice : pretty decent! ????
Mango coconut rolls, not ripe enough! ????????????
Mango pancake : mango not ripe enough, too much cream...
New daily special : interesting! ????
Crème brûlée : pretty light, ok...
Very disappointed. Long line to be seated even when there were empty tables. Took 30-40 min to get our food. No one checked on our order until we said something. Food was mediocre & overly spiced.
Went on opening day - food was alright - service has many links to work out
Fish ball noodle in shark bone soup : got a weird sour taste... Would not recommend it... ????????????
even as a chinese person, felt the service left something to be desired
Good foid but bad service
Good variety of food and quite tasty but service is terribly slow and horrible service
Terrible service!!
Really good milk tea! Comes with evaporated milk in the tea and you add condensed milk. - Iris Ng
Yummmm chinese broccoli! The won tons are delicious too!! This is a quick, cheap and clean Chinese place! - Daena Mananquil
Best roast duck in the City, no doubt. Their roast pork is up there as well. Small dining area with lots of traffic. Cash only! - Jennifer Schultz
Lychee, soursop, and guava… all fantastic. Not our favorite mangosteen and black sesame renditions, but all together a solid ice cream stop. Get a flight of flavors to share, and enjoy! - ???? Tom Nguyen
Employees are very helpful and nice. Try a snow with large tapioca - David Allen