Fù Huì Huá

Should You Book Fù Huì Huá?

Yes; especially if you want one of San Francisco’s most intimate and distinctive contemporary Chinese tasting menus. Fù Huì Huá serves just eight guests at a shared counter, with Shanghai-born chef Yuezhong Ge and his son, Tao William Ge, cooking and explaining the progression only a few feet away.

The meal is rooted in Yuezhong Ge’s Huaiyang training and shaped by his professional experience in China and Tokyo. Japanese ingredients and the counter rhythm are part of the vocabulary, but the techniques, flavor logic and emotional center remain Chinese. The San Francisco Chronicle named Fù Huì Huá its best new restaurant of 2025.

Fù Huì Huá at a Glance

• Address: 2809 24th Street, San Francisco, CA 94110
• Format: Seasonal prepaid tasting menu at an eight-seat counter
• Current total: $331.85 per person before beverages, including the $258 menu, 20% service fee and 8.625% San Francisco tax
• Duration: Approximately three hours
• Reservations: Required and sold only through Tock; full payment is collected at booking
• Dietary policy: The restaurant states that it cannot accommodate allergies or dietary restrictions, including vegan, vegetarian, shellfish and gluten requests
• Age policy: Every guest must be at least 10 years old
• Corkage: $85 per bottle, limited to one bottle per two diners and subject to the restaurant’s current bottle policy

The Experience

The room’s scale shapes the entire evening. There is no distant kitchen or separate dining-room performance: every guest watches the chefs fold, fry, braise, smoke and plate the same synchronized menu. The format is especially compelling for a full eight-seat buyout with friends, but every seat shares the same direct view of the work.

Menus change seasonally and can move through porridge, hand-formed dumplings, seafood, wok-fired courses, home-style braises, rice, tangyuan and restrained chilled desserts. The beverage program includes a thoughtful wine and sake selection designed for the menu’s seafood, fermentation, smoke and rice courses.

The Ge Family

Chef Yuezhong Ge trained in Huaiyang cuisine in Shanghai and later cooked professionally in Tokyo before moving to San Francisco in 2013. He now works beside his son, Tao William Ge, who cooks, manages much of the business and guides guests through the meal. The restaurant began as a Japantown pop-up before opening its permanent Mission District counter in 2025.

Booking and Arrival

Reserve through Tock; the restaurant explicitly says email, text and its general contact form are not valid reservation methods. The full experience lasts about three hours, arrivals more than 30 minutes late are treated as no-shows. Review the official policy before purchasing, particularly because the fixed menu cannot accommodate allergies or dietary restrictions.

For the latest menu, hours and contact details, visit the official Fù Huì Huá website.