Tommy's Mexican Restaurant

06/24/09

a nice place to visit.

by kivanov at Citysearch

Decent margharita's.  The food is fairly ordinary.  However, the portions are really gigantic.  The atmosphere is relaxed while still quite loud/lively.  The staff is nice.  If you just want a place to drink, have decent Mexican food, and hang out at with friends, than this is a great place to go.  Plus, it's one of the Richmond's longstanding jewels.  So, if you want to support the neighborhood while having fun with friends, then this is a nice place to visit.

06/06/09

Slop

by unzipped at Citysearch

This place has the worst food I've eaten in San Francisco, bar none--overcooked, tasteless slop. Unfriendly, non-English-speaking waiters who couldn't get an order right if they actually tried. Filthy interiors (sticky, nasty tables and dirty floors). Worst of all, the entire restaurant smells like a dirty bathroom (mostly because it does indeed sport filthy, smelly bathrooms). The bathroom odor hits you the moment you walk in the door.

Perhaps this is a good drinking place, but it most definitely is not a good eating place. After a few drinks, maybe the odors of urine and filth wafting through the restaurant no longer matter so much?

There are SO many better choices for good Mexican food in the city than this--almost any place in the mission, actually.

As a non-drinker, this place has absolutely nothing to recommend it. Avoid at all costs.

• Pros: Well-stocked tequila bar
• Cons: Everything else...

12/24/08

Tequila PhD it is

by mikekatzthefunny at Citysearch

Tommy's has a tequila education and tasting program called the tequila PhD--and with their selection, quality, and knowledge, they HAVE the right to administer this degree! Oh yeah...and I hold the degree :)

The owner's predilection for El Tesoro is justified. Hacienda de los Diaz, 1800, and Herradura are also amazing--have a shot of each with your meal, and a margarita with whatever's in the well.

The food is very good; the tequila-culture gets this place five stars, and absolutely excellent food would earn it a sixth (if that rating could be given), but...again, the food is quite good.

12/22/08

Great if you are already drunk or have no self respect.

by HLU at Citysearch

Let me preface this review by stating that they do have the best margaritas in the neighborhood, their well tequila would be considered top shelf elsewhere, and their cocktails are better than most neighborhood restaurants. And that?s where all the accolades end. Last Friday, I had a small holiday retirement dinner at Tommy?s, and was only seated when my entire party arrived. I totally understand that policy, but feel that the bar would have accrued a larger tab if we were seated promptly. The establishment has a weird greasy odor and their restrooms also need a good scrub down, it looked like someone had explosive bowels and had a need to make cave paintings all over the walls. The wait staff were very courteous and hospitable, however; the owner was extremely rude, refusing to split the check for some of our party who had to make an early departure. Tommy came to take our order after appetizers and cocktails only to be disgusted when some of our party decided to split meals. During service, Tommy wore his distain on his sleeve; speaking in Spanish (which to his dismay we all understood,) to his wait staff on how displeased he was because my party was taking a picture. Not even ten minutes elapsed before he attempted to clear the plate of my friend who was out side with a phone call. A member of my party attempted to talk to him, but he didn?t seem to care. It is safe to say that I will not pay patronage to Tommy?s ever; there are other places to drink, eat, and be marry.

• Pros: Great Margaritas.
• Cons: Just about everything eles.

07/21/08

BEST MARGARITA PERIOD

by maui77 at Citysearch

Stepping into Tommy's Mexican restaurant is like stepping into a Robert Rodriguez film. You feel that at any moment a gun slinging buckaroo is going to mosey on in and say, "I have traveled a hundred miles for the best tequilas in the world, and you're gonna give it to me"

If the too-many-too count tequilas don't get you, then the margaritas certainley will. You then have no choice of succumbing to the ultra-delicious homemade food , but that's life.

• Pros: MAR GA RITA. Addictive Food
• Cons: There's only one, and its way out close to the beach, but so what, just go to the beach after