# Chinatown Restaurant, Petaluma CA: Reviews

Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/petaluma/chinatown-restaurant-petaluma-ca. Free to reuse with a link back.

By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Updated 2026-10-31.

Canonical: https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/petaluma/chinatown-restaurant-petaluma-ca

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## In short

Chinatown Restaurant is a chinese restaurant in Petaluma, CA. Its AI Score is 57 of 100, which is fair.

What each mark on this page means: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#marks


## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Type | Chinese restaurant |
| Address | 157 Kentucky St, Petaluma, CA 94952, USA |
| Hours | Mon 11:30 AM to 8 PM · Tue to Sun 11:30 AM to 9 PM |
| Phone | (707) 763-7057 |
| Rating | 4.5 across 39 reviews on Google |
| Updated | October 31, 2026 |


## All the details

Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from.

| Group | Fact | Value | Mark | Evidence |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Location info | Address | 157 Kentucky St, Petaluma, CA 94952, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Description | 157 Kentucky St, Petaluma, CA 94952 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Hours | Mon 11:30 AM to 8:00 PM · Tue to Sun 11:30 AM to 9:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Name | Chinatown Restaurant | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Phone | (707) 763-7057 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Monday | 11:30 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Tuesday | 11:30 AM to 9:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Wednesday | 11:30 AM to 9:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Thursday | 11:30 AM to 9:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Friday | 11:30 AM to 9:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Saturday | 11:30 AM to 9:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Sunday | 11:30 AM to 9:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Services | Service | Chinese cuisine | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Dine-in service | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Takeout service | AI guess |  |
| Links | Website | http://chinatown-petaluma.com/ | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |


## Services and prices

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### Known for

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## The team

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## Visiting Chinatown

Address: 157 Kentucky St, Petaluma, CA 94952, USA. Phone: (707) 763-7057. Hours: Mon 11:30 AM to 8 PM · Tue to Sun 11:30 AM to 9 PM. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile.)


### Parking and getting in

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### Nearby

| Place | Type | Distance |
| --- | --- | --- |
| The Kentucky | American restaurant | 1 min walk |
| Bijou Restaurant | Restaurant | 1 min walk |
| The Shuckery | Seafood restaurant | 1 min walk |
| Art Play Café | Indoor playground | 1 min walk |
| Brutal Hill Winery | Winery | 1 min walk |
| Volpi's Ristorante & Bar | Italian restaurant | 1 min walk |


## Reputation

4.5 average across 39 reviews: Google 39. (Confirmed, read July 16, 2026.)

Chinatown Restaurant is noted for its authentic dishes and lunch specials, though some reviews highlight issues with food quality and service consistency. (AI guess, from 39 reviews.)


### What people like

- Broccoli Tofu with rice noodles
- Won Ton Soup
- Lunch special with chow mein or rice
- Szechuan Beef couples dinner
- Pepper beef


### What people do not like

- Declining food quality
- Inconsistent service
- Bland sesame chicken
- Pricing discrepancies


### Press

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### Awards

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### Directories

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## Questions people ask


### what time does this place actually open?


### do regulars get anything here


### any last minute tables at Chinatown?


### the good stuff about Chinatown, what is it?


### Worth the hype at Chinatown?


### ordering here online, does that actually work?


### best chinese restaurant in Petaluma


### walk in at Chinatown in Petaluma, or is it appointment only?


### Somewhere to park near Chinatown?


### which one for Authentic Chinese and Cantonese Cuisine, this place or Hunan Village?


### first visit here, what do I need to bring?


### lunch near Kentucky, what is good


### On a budget in Petaluma, is Chinatown the one?


### Downsides nobody puts in a five star review?


### anything new from Chinatown lately?


### how much is a first visit around here


## What AI gets wrong about Chinatown

We ask Perplexity, Gemini and ChatGPT about Chinatown. These are the answers that don’t match this page.

ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Oct 24, 2026. Perplexity, read by Local AI Registry on Jul 17, 2026. Perplexity via DataForSEO on Oct 24, 2026.

| Fact | What AI says | What this page says |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Address | Perplexity via DataForSEO on Oct 24, 2026: 3100 Lakeville Highway | 157 Kentucky St, Petaluma, CA 94952, USA |


## The AI Score: 57 of 100

It measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. Petaluma chinese restaurants run 49 to 64. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. Chinatown scores 57, above the Petaluma average of 54. The same method scores every business on the registry.

| Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | Chinatown |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Retrieval grounding | 26 | 75 | Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on. | Good |
| Off-property attestation | 20 | 41 | Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability. | Poor |
| AI visibility | 14 | 43 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Poor |
| Reviews & response | 12 | 65 | The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim. | Good |
| Backlink & citation authority | 8 | 53 | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. | Fair |
| Google Business Profile | 8 | 84 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good |
| Speed & mobile | 7 | 50 | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | Fair |
| Content freshness & schema | 5 | 54 | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | Fair |

Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology

How AI decides what to say about a chinese restaurant: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-ai-decides-local-business. What to check before you choose one: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-to-choose-local-business


## Entity map

Every person, place, organization and treatment named on this page, with a stable ID and a public reference. The JSON-LD below connects them to each other.

| Entity | Type | ID on this page | Same as | Relationship to Chinatown |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Chinatown Restaurant | LocalBusiness | #business | http://chinatown-petaluma.com/ | Subject of this page |
| Petaluma, California | City | #city |  | City Chinatown is in |
| Local AI Registry | Organization | #publisher | https://localairegistry.com | Publisher of this page |
| Steve Lee | Person | #author | https://localairegistry.com/team/steve-lee | Author of this page |


## Topical map

Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the chinese restaurants in Petaluma, linked to the lists and towns around it.


### Lists

- Best chinese restaurants in Petaluma: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/petaluma/chinese-restaurant
- Best businesses in Petaluma: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/petaluma


### Nearby

- /san-jose: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-jose
- /los-angeles: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/los-angeles
- /san-francisco: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-francisco
- /san-diego: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-diego
- /irvine: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/irvine
- /mountain-view: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/mountain-view


### Every list

- Every leaderboard in California: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca


## References


### Sources cited

- [1] Google Business Profile, https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJXTtga_G1hYARUs8bVbFUjUc (accessed Jul 16, 2026)
- [2] AI engine output: ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Oct 24, 2026; Perplexity, read by Local AI Registry on Jul 17, 2026; Perplexity via DataForSEO on Oct 24, 2026, https://localairegistry.com/methodology (accessed Sep 18, 2026)