Straits Hawker Street

Valentines day

Great flavors- all the dishes we ordered tasted authentic. The portion sizes were very small for the price points. They should be a bit more generous so that when a family of 4 people orders: 2 appetizers and 4 main dishes, and 2 orders of coconut rice, leave feeling full, not still hungry..

Awesome food and service. The music was great too!

Great food, great menu, great service, great location.

Real singaporean tasting food in the bay area. Not Americanized taste.

Food was not as good as last visit under alt ownership?

Straits has changed to a more casual "tapas" format. The roti prata is by far the best - thin and puffy (typical roti that I've had are pancake thick). The garlic noodles were excellent. Honey walnut prawns and the BBQ chicken wings were good too. The lychee mule was yummy !
The bar area should be expanded which would be more conducive to the new casual format. The benches and lighting are a bit sterile in the dining area.

Great spot!

Service was good, noise level very high. Food very good!

My son has a severe nut allergy and our server did not seem to understand the severity of the situation so we lost confidence and as a result my son did not eat anything.
Also, they got our order wrong and gave us the wrong check.
Too many “wrongs” for a dining experience for us!

Great food! Very good service. The char grilled brussel sprouts were amazing!

Place has changed! Food not as good as it used to

I always liked Straits but lately it’s looking run down. The restrooms are terrible. I thought I was at a dive bar. Trash all over the floor and dirty. They need to do something. I only go there when I can’t get reservations anywhere else, but after the restroom situation -I doubt I would come back

Caveat: My expectations were too high prior to my dining experience. The staff at the restaurant were friendly and welcoming and attentive, no complaints there.

The biggest expectation mismatch was in the actual food. The chicken wings were overly sauced and the wings were tiny...essentially you got a mouthful of sweet sauce and little more. The wok charred brussel sprouts were swimming in oil, the veggies themselves were overcooked to the extent there was no green left, only char and yellow, and it was again over sugared and syrupy.

I think the concept deserves a greater effort at execution because I think if the restaurant delivered better quality food, the menu is a good one and should get strong reception. I do hope my visit was an anomaly and perhaps it was also skewed because I only ordered two dishes and didn't try the many other offerings on the menu.

I liked the food that Straits used to have way back in the days when it first opened...I'm assuming it's different owners. The food that I had the other night was good...just different

Our reservation was after the lunch rush (1:30) & were quickly and cheerfully shown to a table. The first impression was a bit unsavory: One side of our seating, was a long banquette, and our part and the next table had a pretty good dusting of greasy crumbs, which I quickly brushed off before my guest sat on them. As they had only around 3 occupied tables at the time, there is really no excuse for such a slovenly state of affairs. Whomever bussed that table should have seen to those crumbs. Our waitress (also serving as bartender & hostess) was very friendly and informative regarding the menu.
We ordered several plates and shared them, which works well here. Everything we tried was tasty & well-seasoned (satay skewers, bbq ribs with a bit of potato salad, buttery chicken tikka masala, and "origami cod", cleverly steamed in an origami parchment box.)
We also enjoyed among us, a glass of wine, and lychee martinis. The wine (and a bottle of ice water, a nice touch), came right away, but the martinis seemed to take an inordinate amount of time, though when they finally arrived, were delicious and refreshing. All in all, I would go back. Seems like a great place for some Happy Hour tapas & cocktails, or a dinner or lunch of a variety of nibbly bites.
Next time, I would hope for a more fastidiously looked after room, and a beverage service that is a bit quicker in the delivery.

This used to be a wonderful restaurant with a terrific menu. They've slashed the menu and changed the format and to be honest, it sucks. It's all in the small plates style and they've kept a few things from their old menu, but gone from a 6 page menu to less than a page. All of the great dinner items they had are gone. Very little variety.

We had drinks and appetizers then left and won't be back. What a shame to ruin what was a wonderful restaurant with such a non-menu. Strongly advise just skipping this and going somewhere else.

Excellent! Love the new look and menu.

The menu at opentable and yelp was different from the one at the restaurant. It was misleading when making reservation.

This is the same restaurant but with a new menu. As far as I am concerned, the food may be different, Asian street food, but it has the same mediocre flavor profiles. We had five of the small plates, and I mean small. The salad barely covered the plate and the rib plate only held three. The chicken wings were terrible but the highlight was the two small pork belly buns. The meat was held by Peking Duck style bun with hoisin style sauce lightly applied.

The service was okay but should have been stellar since there were virtually no one else in the place during lunch on a Saturday in busy downtown Burlingame. To take the job of making sure there were napkins and utensils easy, a large plastic glass is placed on the table with all that is needed including those brown napkins that you get at fast food restaurants and need replacing after a few wipes.

Can someone tell me why a restaurant uses hard, plastic chairs without any cushioning? I just don't get it. That's what is prevalent here. You would also think they would paint the walls when re-branding. Not here.

Good setting, nice drinks/cocktails but food was way too salty. Promising menu selection, only downside was the salt factor for us.

Disappointing. Food was far too greasy and expensive for what we got. Have been there for drinks in evening and it's ok as a bar. Need to have a lunch combination plate as an option, rather than ordering several dishes.

Disappointed tamarind beef and beef rendang are no longer in the menu.

We went there at 3:30pm and it was pretty empty. The service was excellent and the food was fabulous and delicious especially the Brussel sprouts and poke. My first time at the Burlingame location but would come back.

Thank you Tuan for your exemplary service. We really appreciate the special accommodations

Great food, great service, great prices, but the decor is a bit dated so it's pretty empty. Has some of the most interesting food in Burlingame.

We went on the Fourth of July so it was very quite which is not the norm. We sat outside due to having our dogs with us. Being short staffed they did the best that they could and food was as good as usual.

Such terrible Asian food. Pad Thai was watery and tasteless. Super expensive fried snapper had great presentation but way overcooked. Green curry was decent, but nothing to write home about. The wait staff is all Asian - you'd think one of them would have said something by now.

We loved the old STRAITS on Geary in SF years ago. It was nice to find it thriving at its Burlingame location. Corn fritters are every bit as good as memory indicated.

The food selections are minimal for brunch but tasty. Our lady server is friendly & attentive. My only beef is that they charge $2.00 per person for me to bring a cake so I opted not to bring my birthday cake.

The service was very slow and quite forgetful. It took 20 mins to get 2 glasses of wine and another 20 for bowls for the soup. The shrimp wasn't cooked, the laksa was overly fishy and the steak was chard and rubbery. Not a good experience at all.

This location used to be great..not sure what happened, but they changed the menu, and service was horrible. This used to be a favorite spot, but never coming back. The food sucked! And overpriced

Consistent food, great service!

Indonesian Corn Fritters was awesome! So were the Chicken Satay Sticks.
Hainan Chicken - the sauces are not that great.

Good food and a friendly staff. Excellent location, right across the street from the cal train station.

I went with high expectations based on the reviews other diners had given. Sadly, this restaurant turned out to be a huge dissapointment. Everything from the small plates to cocktails tasted nasty!
The verdict : A mocking representation of Singaporean - Malaysian food.

Had a great birthday celebration with the girls. The restaurant even gave us complimentary birthday cakes for our two birthday celebrants. Wonderful thing was even though we lingered after we wee done, we never felt dismissed or obligated to leave.

Fun place to get together for a Girls' Night Out especially with their variety of cocktails to choose from. Been coming here for years and will continue to do so whether it's for drinks and appetizers or family style dinner.

Unfortunately they didn't have a lot of items on the menu the day we went. I realize it was Mother's Day, but that also means they should have stocked up for one of the known busiest days of the year

The wok fried mussels/clams are the best! Singapore prawns in chili sauce are awesome too!

El lugar está descuidado, los baños terribles, la comida bastante malona. Fui al de Santana Row y definitivamente lo supera en todo!