Tangerine Cafe Llc

Fresh ingredients, big portions worth their prices and efforts of going to Sanchez16th. Good vibe for dinning experience, a place where you can enjoy twilight sky with a few of walking traffics.

Pros: Two thumbs up

Tangerine is absolutely my favourite dinner restaurant in San Francisco. Other reviews have emphasized how friendly the staff are, but to give you some idea, after the third visit we were on first name terms and looking at pictures of Fabien winning Miss Gay California. (At our encouragement -- in case I'm scaring off any straight people :-) The food is excellent, and you must try one of the iced mango margueritas.
A reservation is advisable, although there are usually tables free in any case after 9pm.

My friends and I always pick Tangerine for our dinning out and any special occasion dinner party for years. After read the hateful comment from that person. from my point of view, any restaurant that is not FAST FOOD like; Mc Donald... Guest could not just PICK where they want to seat!!! It would be up to the Host or the Manger to seat their guest to the right place. "Reserve sign" if it placed to any table in the restaurant there must be important and good reason why it their. Some people that go to Restaurant and want to pick or remove "the sign" must not go out STAY at home!!! cause at your home you can do anything you want! Next time you go out to other place that isn't your home PLEASE respect other people PLACE! You are lucky they didn't kick you and your party out after your BAD behavier to staffs there. We have been dinning at Tangerine for years never ever have any problem seating or dinning at Tangerine. All staffs are very nice and helpful to us, the food is always great. Our guests always enjoy their experince there. My friends and I will always come back to Tangerine and will highly recomment Tangerine to everyone.

Pros: Great service and food
Cons: Not yet found!

We are so glad Tangerine is in our neighborhood. We love to walk there, take all our visitors there, celebrate our lives there. The food is great (the duck rolls our absolute fave!), and very well-priced, but we return time after time for the people: co-owner and chef Sean, the ever-gracious host Katherine, and the flawless waitstaff. Tangerine is at once a lovely place for a romantic occasion, and a great spot for a spontaneous meal. We'll be back!

Pros: good for a large group at dinner, if you make reservations. less noisy than many other restaurants.
Cons: brunch is so popular that might have to wait. come a bit past prime time, or chill out with a mimosa. great people-watching, and it's always worth the wait.

It is not true that the food at Tangerine is disappointing, nor is the service, the incredibly friendly staff, or the incredibly capable manager who frankly could be at Wynn Las Vegas directing fine dining.
Any restaurant will seek to protect and preserve their best customers. That's good business, and sometimes we all have to put up with that. One night a famous movie star went to Tangerine. His handler was incensed they would not give him special treatment. To me, honoring your regulars and not feigning over stars is the very best of San Francisco's character..or what's left of it. I know Herb Caen would approve of Tangerine that night. The person complaining about friends of the owner getting special treatment was in fact rude to one of the sweetest waitpersons I have ever known in order to get his way. It was a difficult situation, and we (the "friends of the owner") took another table without fuss. So, if you want yummy food and lovely service, go to Tangerine.