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Golden Star Vietnamese Restaurant
Vietnamese
A no-frills Vietnamese lunch spot on the edge of Portsmouth Square, where the best move on a sunny day is to grab takeout and eat in the park while retired neighbors argue card games at the tables nearby. Pho, grilled meats, rice plates, and vermicelli salads are the whole program, exactly as advertised. The spring rolls, fried in rice paper, come out blistered and genuinely airy in a way that's hard to explain until you've had one.
One honor, in evidence:
The record strongest first
- San Francisco Chronicle Best restaurants in San Francisco's Chinatown
One number, weighted & current 62
How we scoreThe dishes from the writeups
- Bun cha gio San Francisco Chronicle
- Pho San Francisco Chronicle
- Rice vermicelli salads San Francisco Chronicle
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