Chez TJ
Mountain View, CA 94041
Phone: (650) 964-7466
- Hours:
- Tue-Sat 5:30pm-9:30pm
Editorial Review for Chez TJ – by Laura Reiley
In Short
The restaurant is set in a 100-year-old Victorian home. Inside, it's lovely, with big vases of flowers and a flickering gas fireplace. The menu changes frequently, so it's hard to say what you'll get on a particular evening. But hopefully, the tart green apple sorbet intermezzo and the piquant baby spinach salad dotted with feta cheese will find its way to your table. This is one of the few places on the peninsula where one can finish up with a cheese course--nice slices of French and Italian cheeses, some gooey, some hard, paired with fruits.
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Insider Tips
Know Before You GoA meal at Chez TJ, with its multiple courses, can take up to three hours.
User Reviews for Chez TJ
03/31/2008 Posted by joanhklovescody
Be sure to bring your own magnifying glass! The portions were too small to choke a toddler, but the bill was astronomical ($320 for the two of us). When we arrived home, my husband reached for the pizza and I grabbed a bowl of cereal. This felt like something out of a Seinfeld episode. We'll stick with Le Petit Bistro for our French fixes.
03/03/2008 Posted by cynthiapatrick
We went to this restaurant, for the first time, to celebrate my birthday In February of 2008. Compared with other French restaurants, it was a big disappointment. To start with, the girl at the desk could not find our reservation and made us feel very unwelcome, until she found it. As for the food, never have we paid so much for so little. All the servings, although tasty, were so small that we went home and ate a desert to feel even barely fed. ( And we are not big, obese, over eaters.) The soup course had approximately 1/4 cup of soup, served at the bottom of a huge bowl. The chef's beginning " treat" consisted of one small cheese round about 1 and 1/2 inch in diameter and two salted radishes. on an otherwise long, empty plate. The first course contained one scallop topped with one shrimp. The meat was about 2 inches across and 3 inches long, and the vegetable ( I kid you not) was the leaves of one brussels sprout!! The between courses"Ice or granita" was about one tablespoon and the dessert, two small cookies!!! Most French restaurants give the diners at least a full meal. This was the "laugh" we have told to all our friends ever since that evening. We felt like ripped" off fools!
Pros: Nice ambience What food there was tasted good
Cons: Big price for tiny amount of food
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