Hoi An 1608 Vietnamese Restaurant — Restaurant in San Francisco

The restaurant is clean and is in good location. Parking might be a little hard to find since it’s mostly street parking. Lots of delicious authentic Vietnamese dishes to choose from. Bánh Xèo is crispy on the outside and the taste is rich with the coconut milk. The filling is filled with shrimps, pork, bean sprouts, carrots and bamboo shoots. It is served with fresh greens along with delicious fish sauce that has the perfect balance of sweet and savory. I accidentally ordered fish soup instead of Ha Noi Rice Vermicelli and the manager was kind allowed me ro switch my dish. I minute she brought out the plate of Ha Noi Rice Vermicelli, I imagined as if I was on the streets of Vietnam. I can smell the authentic barbecue flavor and charcoal from the pork sausage and egg rolls. I love the way the pork sausages are soaked in fish sauce to absorb more flavor. It is served with rice noodles and fresh green herbs. They gave me an extra bowl to put a little of everything together. My first bite brought a smile and satisfaction to my face. It is Sooooo Deliciously Good! OMG it is just so flavorful. The seasonings is perfect and the fish sauce just balance everything so well. The egg roll is super crispy and not oily at all. They use a different type of wrapper, not your normal egg roll wrapper you find at the store. The fillings inside is juicy and flavorful. I will definitely go back and if you’re in San Francisco, wanting good authentic Vietnamese food, definitely go here! I don’t say this to many restaurants but this restaurant got me missing being on the streets of Vietnam eating delicious food and the smell...

Was looking for something new and cordon blue around the corner was super small and packed but luckily for us, Hoi An was not. Turns out this place is now going to be one of our go to places in the area. We found the decor aesthetically pleasing, it was elegant and inviting. The service got a lil bogged down, but after arriving it filled up quickly so im gonna give them a break. Seems like they do an amazing job for only 3 or 4 people working. The food is really good, we especially liked the imperial roll, we got both (imperial ad spring) normally only do the spring rolls but something said try the imperial and we were both glad we did! If you get the claypot (we did with the salmon) get rice or noodles. We did the garlic noodles, the Pho (with chicken) and they were both tasty and as expected. The other highlights were the wine bar, my passion fruit limeade (made with real lilikoi) and the bananas Foster. The manager/owner is attentive friendly with a interesting sense of humor. Definitely will be going back. Cant go wrong here very...

Love pho but this place has dumbed it down to something practically unrecognizable. Pine nuts really? I can appreciate Hanoi style / traditional without bean sprouts…. But the whole meal was underwhelming.

The menu feels quite….Caucasian. I’m assuming it’s meant to attract the tendernob / Russian hill neighborhood…. But the product comes out something reminiscent of Applebees with Vietnamese flair. Generic and plain without anything memorable by design.

The goal here is just like in terrestrial radio with advertising; not here to play music that conjures strong opinions/emotions…. My goal is get you to not change the station for as long as possible so I can sell commercials.

While this may work out well for radio… it’s tragic for a restaurant that’s supposed to give you a justification for coming back.

Furthermore, $25 for a bowl of chicken soup is a bit rich. Then again, this is probably correlated to the neighborhood. Cheers and ty for having me but I’m one...