Gold Mountain Restaurant

From Burden's Landing

644 Broadway
San Francisco, CA
415-296-7733

LA Times Review

Prices: $2.20-$4

Start your morning with a dumpling — or six — at Gold Mountain, a busy dim sum restaurant at the edge of Chinatown.

This warehouse-sized eatery seats 200 and is casual, fast and full of locals sipping tea, eating noodles, barbecue ribs and fluffy steamed buns. SF Weekly named it San Francisco's favorite dim sum restaurant. We stopped the passing carts to try pork buns ($2), sesame seed balls ($2.20), barbecue chicken ($8.25), assorted veggies ($6.50) and a few other items that ran our bill up to $29.95. But for a group of three, that's a bargain. If you're adventurous, try the hot pepper chicken feet ($2.20) or boiled beef tripe ($4).

We loved: the flavors and feel of being in Asia.

We didn't love: trying to stay out of the way of the carts.