Flyboy wrote:
My last trip to the US was July '06, next one this June. So as a resident living in the Central Valley I'm genuinely interested to know the names and locations of the Chinese restaurants those critical of Tin Jo feel are better. For Chinese, I think it's slim pickins down here. Enlighten me!
Besides Tinjo....
Don Wang, particularly good for dim sum. $$$$ on a scale of up to $$$$$. Medium priced. Liquor license.
Located almost next door to Tinjo.
El Favorito,Off P. Colon, right next to Veronica's MP. Blue/gold building. Old-school chop suey place
I don't know the name, but the Japanese restaurant in the Hotel Trip Coribisi is excellent, $$$$, fairly high priced. Excellent service by C.R. standards. The sukyaki is not authentic, but other dishes we tried were very good.
Do Sushi, just down the pedestrian mall east of Costa del Sol, if memory serves. Not bad. $$$.
Tinjo does indeed to vary in quality. One visit, I ordered Thai beef salad. Sorry sir, no mint. Another time, I ordered the same dish, and the waiter looked at me as if I was from Mars.
Other meals eaten there over the past three years have been stellar. The Thai masaman curry is bland unless you order at least four-star (second to the highest level of spiciness/heat). Excellent!
Their Chinese cuisine is and has been in my experience marginal. I have never tried Japanese dishes, nor Vietnamese for that matter, but what I have ordered has been very good or excellent 4 of 5 visits. YMMV, and I think it really depends on who is heading the kitchen at the time.
Prices are fairly reasonable, unless you go stoopid with the frosty little fru-fru gay-lifestyle drinkie-poohs. Slurp.
Also, don't count on their wine list being anything spectacular.
Just my take. I give Tinjo an overall 80% rating for quality and ambience, 90% for service and 75% for price/value ratio.
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