Monica C.
Yelp
Passed by Miss Tomato often and was curious about their sandwiches whenever I drive to Kukje Market. Finally tried it when my husband and I decided to get sandwiches for our beach stroll with our infant. This place was packed! They were so busy!
Miss Tomato was located inside a mini family owned convenient store that sold random things. Outside of it looked very janky with the old-school meter parking. The surrounding looked sketched but was on one of the busy main streets in Daly City. Just like many mini grocery like convenient stores that sold sandwiches, it was more of a to-go pick up kind of place with no special atmosphere. The workers were friendly though but it seemed like only one of the men knew how to make the sandwiches we ordered, so it took awhile to get our sandwiches (more than 20 minutes). It felt long especially since my husband and I buy a lot of sandwiches in SF and we rarely ever waited pass 12 minutes. This time felt even longer when we had our infant with us.
We ordered two sandwiches to share. They were both huge for $11 each. We got what seemed to be their two most popular: Spicy Mama and Miss Tomato's BBQ Sandwich. My husband was craving a simple turkey sandwich with lots of mayo and lettuce from Lincoln Market (nearby Lincoln High School in SF), which was closed down. Miss Tomato did not have much options for turkey sandwiches so we got the Miss Tomato's BBQ sandwich which consisted of turkey, roast beef, carmelized onion, bacon, ranch dressing, garlic mayo, and Miss Tomato's BBQ sauce. That sandwich was yummy and quite tasty! The only suggestions we recommend was more sauces and seasoning on the deli meat to bring out the flavors. Their Dutch crunch bread was very good and not hard like some places but their deli meat was bland. It needed salt and pepper to bring out the flavors.
The other sandwich we tried was the one most customers raved about on Yelp: Spicy Mama sandwich. This one was made of chicken, pesto, garlic, lettuce, red onion, tomato, Jack cheese, and chipotle sauce. Sounded very good! First bite of this one and man, it really was spicy. I could not enjoy this one because it got spicier as I ate it. My husband thought his half was spicy but tolerated it well until he tried mine and realized it was even spicier. Guess they did not squeeze the sauces proportionally so one half was spicier than the other. I would skip this one next time.
Overall, Miss Tomato was a decent sandwich spot that we would get sandwiches from again if we were around the area. They cut their sandwiches in perfect halves so it looked very nice and clean. Too bad the taste could not top sandwich spots in SF like Submarine, Gene's Liquor, Lou's, or even Little Lucas in SSF. It was cheap alternative though for the sizes they gave, so still a good option but ask for seasoning for their sandwiches.