Chubby Noodle North Beach

The food here is amazing and so is the ambiance. The menu items are meant to be shared so you can try everything. My go-tos are the spicy garlic noodles, Peking duck steam buns, Korean pork tacos, and fried chicken tenders. Every time I take visitors they beg to go back—I’m pretty sure they’re visiting me just to go to Chubby Noodle at this point. They have a phenomenal playlist of ‘90s hip hop and other classics and the awesome waiters take the drunken song requests you start making after your third sake. There’s also the best, most dangerous, brunch deal in town: two hours of bottomless food and drinks—and you can reserve a table for it.