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1574 California San Francisco, CA 94109

415-673-5637 

 

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1574 California San Francisco CA 94109

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  • Vietnamese
    Sun 4pm-10pm, Tue-Sat 11:30am-2:30pm, Tue-Sat 5pm-10pm
    $ $
  • cash
    Takeout
    Dinner, Lunch
  • None
    Not Accepted
    Street
Description

This tiny hole-in-the-wall diner has five items on its menu: imperial rolls, "shish kebab" (thin, unskewered, grilled rib eye steak), meat sauce on steamed rice, country salad, and five-spice roasted chicken. Every dish at Cordon Bleu Vietnamese Restaurant is a winner, and the chicken, just as the menu says, is "possibly the best chicken you will ever have outside of Vietnam." Plus, the Polk Gulch place is blindingly cheap.








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  • Fresh Eats: Vietnamese Country Meat Sauce Still Rules at Cordon Bleu

    Fresh Eats: Vietnamese Country Meat Sauce Still Rules at Cordon Bleu

    By W. Blake Gray | Wed, August 10, 2011

    Feeling poor and hungry, we dropped into Cordon Bleu in Nob Hill and got to talking with proprietor Katie Yu. Yu, from Hong Kong, has never been to Vietnam. In 1995, she bought the restaurant from its founders, who claimed to have opened San... More »

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    By Jonathan Kauffman | Fri, July 29, 2011

    Highlights from SFoodie this week:1. W. Blake Gray checks out Le Cordon Bleu, which claims to be San Francisco's first Vietnamese restaurant (opened in 1968). It's now owned by a Chinese-American woma... More »

  • Cordon Bleu: Vietnamese Country Meat Sauce Still Rules

    Cordon Bleu: Vietnamese Country Meat Sauce Still Rules

    By W. Blake Gray | Thu, July 28, 2011

    When we're feeling very poor and very hungry, we sometimes drop in to Cordon Bleu on Nob Hill to quietly scarf down a mountain of food at the counter. On our most recent visit, we got to talking with ... More »

  • The Asian Collection

    The Asian Collection

    By Meredith Brody | Wed, March 26, 2003

    Not that I need an excuse to eat in four different Asian restaurants in a week, especially in San Francisco, but anticipating the opening of the Asian Art Museum provided the inspiration. The city's proximity to what was then known as the Orient... More »

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  • 2006 | Best Dive Restaurant

    If there isn't room to squeeze into one of the eight seats at the Formica counter that fronts the open grill or at one of the three tiny tables tucked in the back, pick up the Cordon Bleu specialty -- delicious Vietnamese grilled chicken -- to go. It seems beside the point to talk of either décor, seemingly unchanged for decades, or atmosphere, since that isn't the point here. A number of signs make it appear that there's lots to choose from, but Cordon Bleu really only offers... More »

  • 2003 | Best Vietnamese Hole-in-the-Wall Restaurant

    The place is tiny (the Formica counter fronting the open grill seats eight, and there are just three tables tucked in the back), and the menu is, too. There are only five items on offer at Cordon Bleu: imperial rolls, aka spring rolls; shish kebab, which here does not involve any kind of a skewer but is razor-thin slices of rib-eye steak, soaked in a sugary marinade and crisped on the grill; country salad, which is largely chopped cabbage; meat sauce on rice; and chicken, rubbed with Asian... More »

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Back to TopMenu
Main Menu
Vegetarian Delight
$2.60
Vegetarian Roll
deep fried filled with vermicelli, tofu, carrots and taro and served with sweet and sour vinaigrette
$2.60
Fresh Spring Roll
tofu, cabbage, vermicelli, carrots and shitake mushroom wrapped in clear cellophane rice paper and served with special peanut sauce
$7.60
Noodle Salad
rice noodle in a bed of lettuce, basil, cucumber with chopped peanuts and served with two vegetarian rolls and sweet and sour vinaigrette
$7.60
Garlicky Tofu
tofu and shitake mushroom in creamy garlic bean sauce served over rice
Lunch Special
Meat Sauce On Rice
$5.25
1 Imperial Roll, Country Salad
$5.25
1 Shish Kebab, Country Salad
$5.75
1 Piece Chicken, Country Salad
A La Carte
$2.60
Imperial Roll
$2.85
Shish Kebab
$2.50
Country Salad
$4.00
Meat Sauce On Rice
$1.50
Extra Steamed Rice
Half $6.25
Five Spiced Roast Chicken
Entrees
$6.85
Extra Rice $0.75
1 Imperial Roll, 1 Shish Kebab, Country Salad, Meat Sauce On Rice
$6.85
Extra Rice $0.75
2 Imperial Rolls, Country Salad, Meat Sauce On Rice
$6.85
2 Shish Kebabs, Country Salad, Meat Sauce On Rice
$7.60
All White Meat Extra $1.00
Five Spiced Roast Chicken (1/2), Country Salad, Meat Sauce On Rice
$8.65
1 Piece Five Spiced Roast Chicken, 1 Imperial Roll, 1 Shish Kebab, Country Salad, Meat Sauce On Rice
House Specials
$8.65
Spicy Pork Chop
lean pork chops served with green onion oil infused rice and side of tomato cucumber salad
$7.60
Ma Po Tofu
minced pork with savory fresh bean curd served on rice in creamy garlicky oyster sauce
$7.60
Substitute Chicken For Shish Kebab, Add $1.00
Noodle Salad
rice vermicelli in a bed of greens served with imperial roll and shredded shish kebab. a delicious traditional vietnamese dish
$7.60
Chicken Salad
shredded 5-spiced chicken in a bed of cabbage, basil, mint, chopped peanuts and served with sweet and sour vinaigrette

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