Four Kings
chinese
Free Bites
Roasted Peanuts
Smashed Cucumbers
Small Bites
Sichuan Cabbage
$7
Hot Mustard Jellyfish Salad
$8
House Ceasar
$8
Shishito Peppers
$8
Ginger Scallion Cold Cut Chicken
$14
Chili Crisp Pighead
$14
Grilled and Fried Xinjiang Lamb Skewers (1 each)
$9
Sacha Grilled Corn (2 each)
$9
Popcorn Chicken
$17
Featured
Hong Kong Black Peppered Steak
$60
Fried Squab
$45
Rice and Noodles
Mapo Spaghetti with Beef
$23
Corn Cheese Hot Link Fried Rice
$23
Pork Chop Rice with Tomato Egg
$24
Beef Chow Fun Noodle
$25
Claypot Rice with Chinese Sausages and Bacon
$29
Jasmine Rice
$4
Seafood
Scallop Vermicelli
$14
XO Escargot with Milkbread
$24
Black Bean Clams
$26
Vegetables
Sichuan Potatoes
$15
Chiuchow Olive Green Beans
$16
Fish Fragrant Eggplant
$16
Yam Leaves with Fermented Tofu
$16
Sake and Sochu
Iichiko Seirin Barley Shochu
$64 (bottle)
Smooth with a slight sweetness. Smells of lemon, fruits and flowers. Refreshing on the rocks.
Ho No Tomo Junmai
$27 (carate), $75 (bottle)
Medium-full bodied, with smooth finish. Fruity with notes of lychee, canteloupe, and tangerines.
Jokigen" Junmai Ginjo
$21 (carate), $60 (bottle)
Dry and medium bodied with notes of muscat grapes and fresh pear.
Mukade Nigori
$54 (bottle)
Creamy, velvety, lightly sweet with notes of melon and sweet rice.
Isojiman Honjozo
$24 (carate) $65 (bottle)
Soft, light bodied, with notes of candied nuts and dried tropical fruit.
Kamo Kinshu Tokubetsu Junmai
$24 (carate), $65 (bottle)
Dry and full-bodied with notes of dried plum and brown sugar.
Highballs
Mandarinquat "Umeshu"
$12
Chinese Almond Milk
$12
Osmanthus Lemon
$12
Beers
Tsingtao Lager
$7
Taiwan Head Brewer Pomelo Witbier
$11
Ugly Half Toastea Lager
$11
Ugly Half Hazy IPA
$12
Wine
Vermentino - Ryme White
$17 (glass), $60 (bottle)
Zippy and crunchy with texture and depth.
Carignan - Lioco Red
$16 (glass), $56 (bottle)
Light bodied with bright acidity.
Vouvray - Champalou White
$17 (glass), $60 (bottle)
The chenin blanc is elegant with high acidity.
Grenache/Cinsault - Aupilhac Red
$16 (glass), $56 (bottle)
Medium bodied with notes of dark red fruit.
Tea and Soda
Chrysanthemum Tea
$7
Yin Hua Jasmine Tea
$6
"Monkey Picked" Oolong Tea
$6
Red Tea
$6
Coke
$3
Diet Coke
$3
Sparkling Water
$3
Dessert
Read Bean Shaved Ice
$12
Mango Pudding
$12
Black Sesame Hot Silken Tofu
$12
Menu as captured Sep 1, 2026 · source ↗
Tied with 45 other venues on equal evidence.
We hold 230 venues in San Francisco, CA and could score 133 of them. Positions are counted against those 133.
v1.7.4 8.8/100 = sourcing 0.0/50 (named-farm 0 distinct, named-region 0 distinct, attribute 0 distinct, buzzword 0 distinct) + farm partners 0.0/20 (none scored) + registry 0.0/12 (none listed) + press 8.8/18 (capped at 35% of the 0.0-point evidence base).
Book on OpenTable ↗link checked Aug 24, 2026
Authority & awards
- MICHELIN Guide 2026: Selected ↗
MICHELIN Guide
Award - Top 100San Francisco ChronicleTop 100 restaurants in the Bay Area 2026 ↗
San Francisco Chronicle
National authorityMacKenzie Chung Fegan
“See on map #2 in 2025 San Francisco GenreCantonese Price$$$ Last year, 13 months after it opened, [Four Kings debuted in the No. 2 spot on our list](https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2025/top-100-best-restaurants-san-francisco-bay-area/#four-kings). Mike Long and Franky Ho’s [electric Cantonese-by-way-of-their-fevered-brains cooking](https://www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaurants/article/four-kings-cantonese-chinatown-19431105.php) and [the energy of their Chinatown restaurant](https://www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaurants/article/four-kings-fun-sf-20176208.php) had us in a chokehold. Located underneath what is surely the most delicious smelling Kumon in the city, it was exactly the type of ”
Local authority
- The 16 Best Chinese Restaurants in San Francisco ↗
Eater SF
Local authorityLena Park
“Since opening its [first permanent location](/2024/3/8/24094339/four-kings-san-francisco-chinatown-restaurant-opening) in Chinatown in March 2024, this [titanic pop-up](/2023/6/20/23767553/four-kings-pop-up-san-francisco) has become one of the city’s hardest reservations to get. In addition to the raved-about mapo spaghetti and chile crisp pig head, the physical location that’s housed above a Kumon also allows for an explosion of flavors via clay pot and wok, plus, an expanded beverage menu, including beers from Asia and plenty of shochu. * [Book a table on OpenTable](http://www.opentable.com/r/four-kings-san-francisco?ref=9040) * [710 Commercial Street, San Francisco, California 94108](http”
- The 38 Best Restaurants in San Francisco ↗
Eater SF
Local authority“**Open for:**Dinner **Price range:**$$$ Sometimes a restaurant’s origin story is so well-written one would think Stan Lee put it all down in stardust like just another superhero coming of age. Such is the case for Chinatown’s Four Kings, the first restaurant for chefs Franky Ho and Michael Long who met in the kitchen at Mister Jiu’s over their [shared Cantonese lineage](https://sf.eater.com/2024/3/8/24094339/four-kings-san-francisco-chinatown-restaurant-opening). Chinese sausage and bacon clay pot rice with house-made bacon and sausage. Saucy and spicy mapo spaghetti. A phenomenal fried squab to make James Beard blush. That’s all after the free roasted peanuts and smashed cucumbers hit the t”
Lifestyle coverage
- The Toughest Reservations In SF Right Now (And How To Get Them) ↗
The Infatuation SF
National lifestyle“Four Kings takes walk-ins at the 10-seat counter all night, and it's easier to snag one of those seats on the later end (after 9pm). Reservations are released on OpenTable three weeks ahead at noon. RESERVE A TABLE WITH  --- ---  photo credit: Erin Ng  photo credit: Erin Ng ![A fried squab in ”