Tommy Toys in San Francisco

[sandra]

how many of you have eaten at tommy toy's? my parents took my brother and i there about a year ago. everyone has the same thing - they have this signature menu. the food is okay, but you're left feeling pretty hungry afterwards because the portions are so small. the fun parts - the food comes slowly so you can have nice conversation & you get to dress up a lil.

Chinese cuisine has always enticed gourmets with its distinctive flavors and infinite varieties. The presentation of French cuisine, on the other hand, is known for pleasing epicurean's aesthetic eye.

To couple the art of Chinese cooking with the exquisite presentation of French cuisine is a challenge. A challenge which fulfills a gourmet's wish, perhaps.

Tommy Toy's Cuisine Chinoise attempts just such a fulfillment with creations inspired from both lands.

For reservations or additional information please call (415) 397-4888

www.tommytoy.com

Tommy Toy's Special Signature Dinner
Minced squab "Imperial"

Seafood bisque oven baked
and crowned with French puff pastry

Fresh Maine lobster sauteed with fresh mushrooms, young
chives, and a light peppercorn sauce
served on a bed of Chinese angel-hair crystal noodles

Peking duck served with lotus buns

Wok charred medallions of beef with garlic, wine
and a touch of rosemary

Four flavors fried rice

Peach mousse in fresh strawberry compote

[Chester]

how many of you have eaten at tommy toy's?
Not me. The impression I've always gotten from that place is that it's a Continentalized Chinese place...basically a very upscale P.F. Chang's.

By the way, the new P.F. Chang's is about to open in Downtown San Jose. Oh, and McCormick & Schmick's just opened recently too.

[sandra]

Not me. The impression I've always gotten from that place is that it's a Continentalized Chinese place...basically a very upscale P.F. Chang's.


the food is a lot better than p.f. changs. and the waiters and waitresses are actually all chinese and can speak chinese.

[Chester]

the food is a lot better than p.f. changs. and the waiters and waitresses are actually all chinese and can speak chinese.
Yeah, I'm lumping them together kind of clumsily. It's just, in my mind, I've always thought of both as being places where people can go have Chinese food when they don't actually want Chinese food.

[bluemonq]

cantonese only though, unfortunately. true story: the owner of tommy toy's daughter goes to my school :biggrin: he invited us there in december after the school chamber choir went caroling in the city; his daughter's in the choir. the food's pretty good, though i think it was wasted upon most of us :rolleyes: we didn't have the signature menu... ive forgotten what it was.

[ren28]

I used to pass by there every day and didn't see too many Chinese people going in there. That is a sign that the food is either overpriced and/or crappy.

[sandra]

I used to pass by there every day and didn't see too many Chinese people going in there. That is a sign that the food is either overpriced and/or crappy.

well, i think, when my family went, it was $100 - $150 a person - we got the signature dinner. so it's definitely overpriced. but the food was really delicious.

[Emperor_Mike]

Sounds interesting. Might be worth dropping in for a bite when I'm in the area.

[Faithless]

Tommy Toy's, I believe, is just below SF's Chinatown.

Prices are high, but then again it's "cuisine chinoise". Woo woo.

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