Forkelo ranking · Updated November 2026
5 tom yums across San Francisco, ranked on what people say about the dish itself — never the restaurant's overall rating.
Khao Tiew · San Francisco
3 dish-specific mentions · 67% positive · 2 source types · menu verified November 2026
A creamy tom yum seafood hotpot with shrimp, calamari, and mushrooms. Press calls it the best thing on the menu, a sour bubbling pot worth finishing.
Ben Thai Cafe · San Francisco
1 dish-specific mention · 0% positive · 1 source type · menu verified November 2026
A spicy-sour tom yum with mushrooms, lemongrass, kaffir lime, and galangal, priced for chicken or tofu. Prawns or mixed seafood cost extra.
The ThongLor SF - Thai Restaurant · Lower Nob Hill / Union Square
1 dish-specific mention · 0% positive · 1 source type · menu verified November 2026
A hot-and-sour Tom Yum Bowl with mushrooms, tomatoes, lemongrass, galangal, and lime. The shop also serves noodle and milky versions; this listing is the soup bowl.
BANGKOK STREET Thai Street Food · Japantown / Fillmore
1 dish-specific mention · 0% positive · 1 source type · menu verified November 2026
Tom Yum Goong, a family-style shrimp hot-and-sour soup with milk, onion, tomato, mushrooms, and Thai chilies. This is the creamy shrimp soup, not a noodle bowl.
Lers Ros · Tenderloin
1 dish-specific mention · 0% positive · 1 source type · menu verified November 2026
Pork tom yum noodle soup in a hot-and-sour broth at the Larkin Street shop. This listing is the noodle-soup variant, not a dry noodle or a clear tom yum goong.
Every score is built from evidence about the specific dish: how often locals recommend it, how strongly, how recently, and whether independent sources agree. A restaurant's overall star rating is never converted into a dish score.
Quality and confidence are reported separately. A dish two people loved can score high, but it is marked limited data until more evidence backs it up. The whole calculation — every constant, and three dishes worked through line by line — is written out on the methodology page.
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