25 Chinese restaurants in San Francisco that earn more on your cards

San Francisco has 25 Chinese restaurants in our listings: 20 take a dining program and 5 have a card perk. Most common price: $$ (moderate). Top neighborhoods: San Francisco - Downtown (14), Alameda (1), and Central Richmond (1).

25 restaurants

  • Chinese · Hayes Valley

    American Express Gold Card

    Sapphire Reserve Exclusive Tables credit
Restaurants
25
Neighborhoods
12
Cuisines
7
Dining programs
14
With a card perk
5

The 3 best cards to bring to dinner in San Francisco

Ranked by what each card earns across this city's restaurants at our point valuations, counting the dining program that pays most at each one. Card credits aren't counted. AAdvantage Dining (19 restaurants) and TrueBlue Dining (19) are the most widespread dining programs here, out of 25 restaurants. American Express Gold Card tops the list here on its own dining rate — ≈$6.00 on a $100 dinner before any program.

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14 dining programs that pay in San Francisco

Dining programs pay on top of your card. Join one, link a card, and every meal at a participating restaurant earns twice.

6 cuisines in San Francisco

Chinese in 12 San Francisco neighborhoods

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Some restaurant addresses, phone numbers, websites and cuisines come from Overture Maps Foundation open data (Meta and Microsoft, CDLA Permissive 2.0; Foursquare, Apache 2.0; AllThePlaces, CC0 1.0). Overture attribution Some neighbourhoods come from Who's On First boundaries (CC-BY 4.0). Who's On First licenses Some opening hours, phone numbers, websites and cuisines are © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0). OpenStreetMap copyright

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