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You are correct about the cream, but it only makes it creamy not fancy.
Calling it a bisque is the fancy part because it's French and using French words for mundane things are a great trick restaurants learned to make things sound fancier than they really are.
Bisque roughly translates to "thick soup", but nobody is odering thick soup off a menu...which is also a French word.
To do this at home, it's no longer grilled cheese with tomato soup. It's a cheddar panini with a tomato bisque.
