Chilli Cha Cha

A good place to stop if you’re in the area, but I wouldn’t go out of my way to get to this place.
Definitely not authentic Thai food. More like Chinese Thai fusion with an American twist. Nice hip modern music playing and nice intimate décor.
Ordered the lunch combo of eggplant beefy and basil chicken. My eggplant dish had more basil in it than the basil chicken.

We had a late lunch here Sunday.
We both ordered the lunch special which is served until something like 5pm, so early bird diners take note!
I had the pad thai and green curry with chicken. It came with a delicious soup to start. The green curry was also really tasty! I would absolutely order curry from here again. The pad thai left a little to be desired though (hence 3 stars). The sauce was too… saucy? I’m not sure what was wrong with it exactly.
It was ton of food, but luckily my boyfriend was more than happy to polish it off for me.
Service was excellent.
I would definitely come back or order from here again but will probably stick to curry or try some of the other fish dishes that other Unilocalers have mentioned.

I’ve got a soft spot for Chilli Cha Cha. I dined here three or four times while I lived in the Lower Haight. The ambience and the décor weren’t that great, but the food and service were both well above average.
They tend to do fish really well — the deep fried tuna rolls are amazing, and environmentally-​friendly (they protect an endangered fish by wrapping it in a protective layer of oil). Both the crab cake and the soft-​shelled crab curry dishes are delicious.
Now that I think about it, all of the above items are on the Chef’s Specials list. So, maybe that’s just the way to go when you dine here.

Meh, I’ve had much better but its still pretty good.
It’s still pad thai after all.
Except it costs a little more here and it doesn’t quite hit the spot.

I had lunch here today and It was very good! You get a decent amount of food for only $ 10.50 for the lunch special! You get to choose two items from a list of 15 different dishes. It comes with either salad or soup and rice. I got the veggie pad thai with tofu and the eggplant tofu. Both were very good. I especially liked the eggplant tofu which was very tasty!
Very random decorating with paintings of all different kinds of cultures. When my friend and I were there, they were playing a mix of top 40 music was different for a thai place but I wasn’t compalining! lol
Definitely a great place for a big lunch at a decent price! =]

I had a nice Saturday night dinner at Chilli Cha Cha. Service was fine and they have Singha which is a nice bonus. The menu is varied but has everything you’d expect at a Thai place. My Chilli Cha Cha Tom Yum Noodle Soup tipped on the sweet side, curiously enough — Thai Place II up on Divis’s version has a sharp tang to it that I missed here. The pan fried noodles had delicious pieces of duck, and they were happy to make a curry with tofu instead of meat.
I’ll be back, but like others have said, this is basically just your standard neighboorhood Thai spot. And I’m glad to have it.

I used to love this place when I was in college, a little younger, and a little dumber. Found myself back here after finding Metro Café unexpectedly closed (okay so it was after 9 on a Sunday), and realized that cheap does not equal good.
The pad thai was just okay. Thai Palace II on Divis makes it much better, and the red curry chicken was boring, not nearly as good as Thai House Express.
Plus it’s actually not any cheaper than those other options.
You can definitely walk right by and explore the other options in the neighborhood and San Francisco’s better Thai restaurants.

I am new to hayes valley and decided to try some thai food. I was lazy hence got the food delivered. They have a $ 15 min on delivery.
I ordered the spicy chicken tom yum noodles and must agree that it was really good. I also had the fried tofu in peanut sauce and it felt like i was eating raw tofu. The delivery was fast 20 – 25 mins. In short, its worth trying the food :)

can someone play this for the owner and worker?
They don’t know abou t this song
Chili Cha Cha which is a famous song in the 1970s in Asian
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sung by Jessica Jay, European Singer (2 singers used this name)
The restaurant #1 and #2 are 2 different owners

I have been here a couple of times and have walked away happy and satisfied with the food. It’s your standard, neighborhood, thai place, so no surprises!
I had the thai basil chicken over jasmine rice and that definitely hit the spot. It came with bamboo shoots, carrots, green beans, and was sweet due to the basil. The boy had chicken fried rice with an egg and we shared the chicken satay. The chicken satay was my favorite and I LOVED the peanut sauce.
Although there are better thai places in the city, this place doesn’t disappoint. They also do delivery and we received our food in about 30 mins! Can’t go wrong with that.

Do you remember that SATC episode when Big takes Carrie to that seedy Chinese restaurant after they «um-​hum» for the first time? And Carrie runs into her guy friend who takes his secret gf there, because he’s embarrassed to be seen with her in public. And Carrie assumes that Big takes her there too because, well he’s trying to hide her too.
Well, Chili Cha Cha definitely has that kind of feel, even if, hopefully that wasn’t the reason why I was taken there.
When you walk in, the kitchen is located right next to the dining area. Sort of like a diner. There a several tables, nothing out of the ordinary. But what I didn’t find appealing was that the tables were sticky and not thoroughly washed off. Nothing is more unappetizing then placing your arm down only to find a bunch of crap get stuck on it! Gross!
The food however, was pretty delicious. So that made up for the lackluster ambiance. It’s definitely a place you go to eat when you’re starving or sh*t-faced and you want to shove food down your throat.
But as Big says, «he took Carrie there because it’s his favorite Chinese restaurant.» So, don’t judge a book by it’s cover. Just read the crap out of the introduction.

I very rarely miss working in a restaurant, but when I do, I usually miss those summers in high school when I worked nights. My boss would sometimes let me off before the restaurant closed, but when it was busy, I was there until everyone else left, and that meant lots of sidework and chatting and general camaraderie. It was a completely different story when I worked days because the daytime servers were older, and they had kids and lives they wanted to go home to. They didn’t want to be talking to some seventeen-​year-​old.
The younger servers also tipped me better, but again, that’s because they were twenty and weren’t paying mortgages and car payments and dental bills. Besides cleaning the toilets, everything was perfect at night. This was especially true because the restaurant didn’t close that late, so even if it took you a long time to do what you were doing, it wasn’t close to midnight when you got off.
I came to Chilli Cha Cha for the first time right before they closed for the night. It’s nothing like my first-​job restaurant. In fact, it’s very similar a million other Thai places you’ve been to in the city. But there was a general ease about everyone when I walked in. I made sure to ask whether they were still open, and when they said they were, I think it made them feel better that I was ordering takeout. The cook whipped up my pad see ew quickly, and the two or three other people working were falling all over themselves to make sure I had utensils and a non-​leaky bag.
The food itself is good. Not spectacular, but also better than I expected for the last order of the day. I’ll be sure to come back, hopefully at night.

What does «close at 11» mean to you? Cuz me? It does NOT mean that when I get off work late, wander in at 9:45 and say «When do you close?» and they say «Eleven» that:
at 10:15 all the chairs start going up,
at 10:25 I have to put my empty plates on the table next to me,
at 10:30 I stop getting water and have to chug from the bottle in my bag,
at 10:35 guys are chucking drippy rubber mats next to my table,
at 10:45 a big bucket of bleach is placed in front of my table while I’m trying to enjoy some mango with sweet sticky rice.
But that’s just me.

This cozy ltitle eaterie reminds me of Amelie’s café Les Deux Moulins in Montmartre,
I’m not sure what a normal lunchtime looks at this place because we rolled in at around 2 on a Monday which also happened to be a holiday. The atmosphere of the place is welcoming and has an ease to it which fit our mutual low-​key mood.
We decided on the tom kha khai soup to start — a «chicken in coconut milk soup with mushroom, onion, galanga, lemongrass and lime juice.» It was tangy, but subtle/​delicate, yet complexly flavorful. Highly recommended.
The pad see eu with pork (per the recommendation of the waitress) was exactly what I would look for in a pad see eu. It wasn’t overly salty, but I think it could have come with more… something. Can’t quite put my finger on it. Wasn’t quite 5 stars. I think with the vast menu, I would try something else, but since I had felt like having noodles and love wide noodles… this satisfied the craving.
All in all quite delicious.

Ok I can officially say this is one of my top favorite Thai places in SF!
I came back yesterday and pigged out with a friend. We ordered the bbq shortribs, nom nom good! The peanut flavor curry, forgot the name but it was also tasty, you can taste all the spices and no ginger after taste, thank god! And can’t go wrong with Pad See Ew! Perfect dinner :) Tempted to give them 5 stars!

I’ve had food from this place a few times. I’m not a huge fan of their pad thai but my days of ordering pad thai every time i get food from a thai place are long over.
I love this place for their pad see ew with pork and their wonton noodle soup. their green curry is okay but not great… like a 3.25 star curry. I’ve had better quite honestly.
that said, back to the wonton soup:
the wontons were killer and you can get it with egg noodles for an extra dollar. the broth is good but i don’t love it quite as much as i lvoe the broth over at phở clement #2. i had a few slurps of poe’s tom yum soup and was very impressed with the flavor. over all this place is solid.
the service for take out orders is really good. i was across the street at walgreens buying some cold medicine for my kitten, poe, and got a call letting me know that my food was ready. i had asked that they wrap the soups really well because it was going into my messenger bag and then for a motorcycle ride and they got it. i’m happy to report i was able to get back to poe’s house with a warm, dry back. i love it when people follow instructions.
Cootz OUT!
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3 ½ stars really, and normally I mark up, but i don’t know, giving this place four stars seems like a bit much. This review is only based on one experience though, and I would go back, so there’s room to improve :)
I got takeout from here, but when I went to pick it up the restaurant itself looked cute and a good spot to grab Thai when in the Lower Haight. I liked the open kitchen and even though I didn’t have that much interaction with the people working there they did seem nice.
I decided to get the Panang curry (I’ve been having an affair with Panang curry the last few months… don’t tell red or green curry ;0). It was very good. Normally with Thai, I like my curry spicy but when I asked the woman over the phone if spicy meant REAL spicy, she said yes and recommended medium. It had a good kick. I think I could have handled the spicy spicy, but the medium still had good flavor.
The prices are fair (I can’t remember exactly what I paid, but it was about $ 10 with tax), but I honestly think the portions were a bit on the smaller side. I get a lot of takeout, and when I get curry they usually give a bigger container at most other places. I didn’t have any leftovers.
All in all though this is a solid place for Thai (well, for curry anyway) and I would definitely go back.

In the spirit of full disclosure, this is my first experience with Thai food. So, while I can’t speak to authenticity, or compare it to other Thai places, I can say that what I ate was incredibly tasty.
I got the Thai BBQ Chicken (#63). Two barbecue-​glazed chicken breasts on a bed of fried rice. Very flavorful, but not spicy at all (kind of sad about that, but I probably could have asked if it was/​could be made spicy). In any case, it was so good that I ate more than half the plate, despite not being hungry when I sat down. Thank god my self-​control kicked in, or I probably would have continued to shovel yummy forkful after yummy forkful into my maw. As it was, I was uncomfortably full for the remainder of the evening, but very happy nonetheless.
Though a bit pricey ($ 11), it could easily have fed me 2 – 4 times if I had eaten like a normal person/​had been able to take it home (I was headed out for the rest of the night and didn’t want to worry about my takeout box coming apart in my purse). Another person at the table was more than happy to eat what I’d left.
I also tried a bite of the Woon Sen Pad Thai — also very good (though, as noted, I have nothing to compare it to).
A bonus of dining in was the extremely friendly waiter. Attentive, efficient, and seemed like he was enjoying his job.

This gets a 5 star rating for one really good reason: tasty, quality comfort food. This may not be the most fancy or complex thai restaurant I have been to, but, for essentially fast food thai in a convenient location, this place hits it out of the park.
The food was satisfying in portion, taste, freshness of ingredients which were cooked to the perfect consistency, and total time from walking in the door to eating.

My have entered
RISING PRICES /​FALLING REVENUE DEATH SPIRAL…
Prices are up for like the fifth time in two years, and the place never seems to be busy. You do the math.
I haven’t had the kind of disappointments that others seem to be talking about. I think this is still far better than average Thai food. Easily the best in the area.
But, still… there seems to be a growing dissatisfaction among the customers. I really hope they pull out of this nosedive. It would be a shame to lose the place.