Bodega SF

Review summary

1. OT

   OpenTable Diner

   San Francisco

   1 review

   5.0

   1 review

   Dined 1 day ago

   1. Overall 5
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 5

   I love my time at Bodega: the food was great, and of high quality, cocktails were original and the service was great.
   

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2. OT

   OpenTable Diner

   VIP

   San Francisco

   5 reviews

   4.0

   5 reviews

   Dined 1 day ago

   1. Overall 4
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 3
   4. Ambience 3

   The food was really good. Service was good. Only issue is that they rush you to finish and leave. Literally every two minutes they kept coming by asking if we were done and if we need boxes. Literally a rotation of the same waiters that kept coming by and asking if we were done. Made it hard to enjoy our meals and talk.
   

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   Maribeth

   VIP

   San Francisco

   11 reviews

   5.0

   11 reviews

   Dined 2 days ago

   1. Overall 5
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 5

   Excellent meal - excellent service - the food & drinks were great!
   

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   Philip

   San Francisco

   1 review

   5.0

   1 review

   Dined 5 days ago

   1. Overall 5
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 5

   Amazing, my favorite Vietnamese restaurant in SF!
   

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   Brian

   San Francisco

   9 reviews

   4.0

   9 reviews

   Dined on 20 February 2025

   1. Overall 4
   2. Food 4
   3. Service 4
   4. Ambience 4

   A solid “good not great” eatery. Would go back but there are tons of other places to go in SF, so might be a while.
   

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   Lisa

   Tampa

   10 reviews

   5.0

   10 reviews

   Dined on 19 February 2025

   1. Overall 5
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 5

   Excellent!!!!! What a great dining experience. Also extremely affordable with two drinks, three delicious entrees and a tip in San Francisco!
   

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   Nicholas

   London

   7 reviews

   5.0

   7 reviews

   Dined on 15 February 2025

   1. Overall 5
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 5

   Wonderful dishes. The shakin beef was delicious and cocktails excellent
   

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   Anthony

   VIP

   Los Angeles

   2 reviews

   5.0

   2 reviews

   Dined on 14 February 2025

   1. Overall 5
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 4

   Some of the best pho I ever had. Every dish was a winner.
   

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   Alex

   Chicago

   7 reviews

   5.0

   7 reviews

   Dined on 13 February 2025

   1. Overall 5
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 5

   Went with the tasting menu to get outside my comfort zone and see what the best the restaurant had to offer was. For drinks, we got the banh bo gimlet, toastedtini, and a glass of wine. The gimlet was absolutely the single greatest cocktail I've ever had. It was perfectly balanced and aromatic. Not all of the tasting menu was amazing but like 99% of it was. The oysters tasted really bright and fresh. The banh khot caviar is mind-blowing! It was a perfectly balanced single bite of caked and fried shrimp taken to the next level with the addition of a small scoop of caviar. The bo tai chanh also stood out as an exceptional dish because of how every ingredient in that dish felt like it was perfectly used to layer both flavors and textures. You just have to try it for yourself to understand. The Dungeness crab salad clearly tried to do the same thing but I felt that the tobiko was a little overused causing it to overwhelm the other textures. The various components of the manila clams were all executed well and came together to form a delicious dish. I particularly enjoyed the broth and would gladly have just slurped up a bowl of that. After that came the bun cha which had no chance of living up to the excellence of the clams and their unforgettable broth. The bun cha was still good though. The tangy broth that the proteins were marinating in was excellent and the herbs were fresh. It was also fun to put everything together yourself and build your own bowl or lettuce wrap. We got bowls of pho for our seventh course which, at that point, felt less like a treat and more like an obligation. We were starting to get pretty full and the pho wasn't exciting enough to put much effort into trying to finish. Btw, the beef pho is way better than the chicken pho. Honestly, I loved my overall experience so much that I don't even want to mention dessert but I should. It's not good. It's bland and boring. Service and ambiance were top notch. Overall, best Vietnamese restaurant in SF!
   

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    Jennifer

    New York City

    1 review

    4.0

    1 review

    Dined on 8 February 2025

    1. Overall 4
    2. Food 5
    3. Service 4
    4. Ambience 4

    Yummy food. Drinks weak and expensive. Overall ok.
    

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