Z&Y Restaurant Review, San Francisco

Reviewer: Foodnut.com Z&Y Restaurant 655 Jackson St. (Between Kearny and Grant) San Francisco, CA 94133 415-981-8988

Z&Y Bistro Peking Duck is the Peking Duck focused sister restaurant of Z&Y in San Francisco’s Chinatown. We can for dinner in the summer of 2025. Lots of tourists were there when we dined. 4.5 stars on Yelp. They have everything from Peking duck to Soup Dumplings on the menu. Stick to the Beijing dishes.

Service was better than expected. English was spoke.

Food Review:

Peking Duck ($48 half) comes with crepes, shallots, cucumber, brown sugar, and hoisin sauce.  It comes carved up with skin. No bones are given unless you ask.  The skin was crisp but the meat overdone. 7.5/10

Beijing Beans Sauces Noodles ($18) is a version of the classic noodle dish, where you get the ingredients and can mix them together at your table.  Beef wasn’t the bet, other items were fine. 8/10

Dry-Braised String Beans ($18) were done well and came out fast. 8.5/10

 

Z&Y Restaurant is a Sichuan restaurant in San Francisco’s Chinatown that focuses on spicy dishes. Chinatown is a Cantonese community, so finding a good Sichuan restaurant here is an unlikely proposition. The place was full so we decided to give it a try.

Cuisine – Sichuan Chinese
Location – Chinatown
Opened – 2008

Service – Z&Y Restaurant was very busy during lunch time and had very few servers making this not a place to go to for lunch.
Verdict – Z&Y Restaurant serves up average Sichuan food, stick to Cantonese food while in Chinatown. Great Eastern next door is far better restaurant.

Signature Dishes – Tan Tan noodles, chicken with explosives chili, couples delight.

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Picks:

Tan Tan noodles ($6.95) or Dan Dan noodles consisted of soft noodles with it greasy sauce containing real peppers, making it extremely spicy. So spicy it mask the rest of the dish.

OK: (Order if you like this dish)

Steamed pork dumplings ($5.95) were average and nothing special. Shanghai Bistro in Millbrae serves up some pretty mean Xiao Long Bao.

Scallion pancake ($5.95) were flaky, crumbled fast, yet lacked much in the way of flavor.

Pans: (We would not reorder these dishes)
None

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