Hawaiian Restaurant Near Me in Inner Richmond: Unco Frank's Wine-Bar Plate Lunch

Unco Frank's has no dining room of its own: the Hawaiian kitchen cooks inside High Treason, a wine bar and bottle shop at 443 Clement Street, San Francisco, CA 94118, in the Inner Richmond between 5th and 6th Avenues. High Treason opens every day at 4pm, takes no reservations, and the mochiko chicken plate costs $19. For a Hawaiian restaurant near me in the Richmond, this is the spot where plate lunch comes with a wine list and a record playing in the background.

Frank Hua spent years on the line at San Francisco fine dining kitchens, including Gary Danko and the Michelin-starred Ame, before moving to front-of-house jobs. The Chronicle reported that he promised himself that if he ever cooked again, he would cook for himself. His About page adds that he apprenticed in several cities in Spain, then moved to Oahu in 2018 and noticed how little quality Hawaiian food there was back in California.

Hua started Unco Frank's in Los Angeles during the pandemic, then moved back to the Bay Area, where the pop-up sold out within an hour at its first event. The Chronicle wrote that his cooking draws less from Gary Danko and more from the humble mom-and-pop places he frequented while living on Oahu. The website still describes the residency at High Treason as the base while he looks for a permanent brick-and-mortar home.

In October 2021 the Chronicle described a menu built around smoked kalua pork sliders on King's Hawaiian rolls, panko-crusted cod sandwiches and mochiko chicken, and reported Hua's plan to add a classic plate lunch, which it called a relative rarity in the Bay Area. Five years on, that plan has become the core of the menu: three full plates with rice and mac salad now anchor the online order list at High Treason.

Every plate comes with furikake rice, macaroni salad and a green salad. The mochiko chicken is marinated overnight, fried in glutinous rice flour and tossed in a creamy sesame sauce, $19. The coconut shrimp plate, also $19, uses shrimp crusted in organic coconut chips and panko with a coco mayo. Grilled kalbi, Korean-style short ribs marinated overnight and flame-grilled, then topped with sesame sauce, is the priciest plate at $21.

Auntie Rob's Fried Rice is $16 and comes with Spam, ginger scallion and a sunny-side-up egg; mushrooms can replace the Spam for a vegetarian version. The name honors Robynne Mai'i, chef and owner of Fete in Honolulu, whose fried rice inspired it. The Chronicle singled out the dish for the depth of a long-simmering broth, built on a ginger-scallion sauce Hua learned from a Honolulu chef.

Fries come two ways. Furikake Fries with garlic butter and a lemon aioli are $11, while Da Works Fries load the potatoes with Spam, kimchi, sriracha aioli and furikake for $16, the website promising they are extra crispy. A side of mac salad is $6 and a scoop of steamed rice is $3. The same online menu lists a tuna poke at $21 for anyone who wants something raw with their wine.

High Treason calls itself a place for wine, beer, bites and vinyl, and The Infatuation's write-up put it simply: eat fried, grilled and panko-crusted dishes while drinking wine and listening to records. The owner noted in a July 2026 post that Champagne is always $19 a glass, and described a robust by-the-glass list with selections from both the Old World and the new. The online shop also sells bottles to take home, from Sancerre to Brunello.

Both businesses run walk-in only, and Unco Frank's says plainly that it is not taking reservations. Food can be ordered for pickup through High Treason's online store, where the plates sit on the same menu as the wines, or through Unco Frank's links to DoorDash, Uber Eats and Grubhub, which helps on nights when the bar is full. The Chronicle noted from the start that the food was offered for dine-in, takeout and delivery.

Google lists Unco Frank's kitchen opening at 5pm, an hour after the bar unlocks, so arriving at 4:30pm lets you settle in with a first glass of wine before the fryer starts and order the moment the kitchen opens. An honest skip: do not add the $6 mac salad side to a plate order, because every plate already includes a scoop, and spend the money on Furikake Fries instead.

If the room is packed and you want a full sit-down dinner, plan B is Burma Superstar at 309 Clement Street, one block east, which takes reservations through SevenRooms and which Google shows opening at 11:30am. It is a different cuisine entirely, a Burmese dining room, but a booked table there beats standing at a full bar. The other option is to order Unco Frank's for pickup and eat at home, since the plates travel well in their boxes.

The 44 O'Shaughnessy stops at 6th Avenue and Clement Street, a few doors from High Treason, and the 38 Geary has a stop at Geary and 6th Avenue, one block south. Both lines connect to the rest of the city without a transfer at Geary, so the trip from downtown on the 38 is a single bus ride.

Just across 6th Avenue at 506 Clement Street, Green Apple Books fills its shelves with more than 60,000 new and 100,000 used books, according to its Google listing, and stays open until 9pm. Browse the used stacks while you wait for a seat, or walk over after dinner with a to-go bottle from High Treason's shop. Google shows it opening at 10am, so a weekend afternoon of books can roll straight into the 4pm opening at High Treason.

Unco Frank's inside High Treason, 443 Clement Street, San Francisco, CA 94118, Inner Richmond. High Treason opens every day at 4pm, kitchen listed on Google from 5pm. Walk-ins only. Mochiko chicken or coconut shrimp plate $19, grilled kalbi plate $21, Auntie Rob's Fried Rice $16, Da Works Fries $16, Furikake Fries $11. Champagne $19 a glass. Pickup and delivery available online.