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| - Tommy's does two things: 1. Delivers okay food and 2. always fails to live up to the hype.
I mean the food is just okay here. All these people writing reviews and giving Tommy's 4 and 5 stars, all I can say is, you've never been to an excellent diner that gives real grade A high-quality American style diner food. Yes, the malts are delicious. But how hard is it to screw up a malt? The ice cream, fruit, malt mix, etc. do all the work. And a restaurant can't have a reputation built on malts.
Whenever I go to Tommy's, like I said, the food is okay-- but just okay-- and there's always something a little off about the visit. The latest time I went I had a bacon cheeseburger with onions. The bacon looked anemic, as if it had been hidden under a shoe for weeks, but it tasted okay. It wasn't real, quality bacon. And the onions were dry. It was as if the onions had been hanging out with the bacon that had been hiding under a shoe for weeks. The onions were dry.
My girlfriend had a grilled cheese and a bowl of blackbean chill. Here's the thing about that: if someone ordered those foods together, would you as a server bring them out separately, or would you wait until the grilled cheese was done and bring out the sandwich with the chili? Someone who orders a grilled cheese with ANY kind of soup-- including chili-- is looking to eat that sandwich with the soup/chili. Our waitress brought out my girlfriend's chili well before anything else. really dumb.
Second, the funny thing about the chili: the bowl it was in was INCREDIBLY HOT.....but the chili itself was just lukewarm. It was weird. It's almost as if the waitress or the cook expected the hot bowl to warm the chili for them.
Here's the other thing about the whole experience: after our waitress served the food, she never checked up on us once. Really annoying.
If you go to Tommy's enough, you will experience these kinds of little things going wrong with the meals, but you'll keep going back to Tommy's because there's really no seriously good diner food American style competitor to take Tommy's place. It's just okay. It's not 4 stars nor is it 5 stars. It's bland and just okay.
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