The place is cute, but the service is so slow even if the food is ok, by the time it reach everything you ordered the food is cold, the drinks is no longer cold or even worse finished by the time you get to eat.
The food on camera look apetazing but a lot of people also get tired of waiting and just walk out...
They need to improve service
Service
Dine in
Meal type
Dinner
Price per person
₱1,200–1,400
Food: 2
Service: 1
Atmosphere: 3
NOT WORTH IT.
We were quite enticed by seeing the smoke coming out, the busy looking kitchen and an eager set of patrons waiting for food that we decided to sit down here for a meal. We ordered a sizzling pork short order and a grilled chicken with rice. Safe to say, both the dishes were an utter disappointment.
We've had Filipino food before and this one was not at all worth it. The service was pathetic to say the least. The order was delayed and the chicken was served cold.
Food: 1
Service: 1
Atmosphere: 1
I had a decent experience at this restobar. Got my beef quesadilla and lemonade pretty fast. The food was good and inexpensive. The waitress was prompt and nice. The atmosphere was fine. I am giving it an overall rating 4/5 as there are some better places in the area, but this one was simply ok. Thank you.
Service
Dine in
Meal type
Dinner
Price per person
₱200–400
Food: 4
Service: 5
Atmosphere: 4
Eggs were salty. Long wait. Half of the drinks on the menu weren’t available. When you order coffee, they give you hot water and a sachet of instant coffee expecting you to make it for yourself.
Location is very central.
Service
Dine in
Meal type
Breakfast
Price per person
₱200–400
Food: 2
Service: 2
Atmosphere: 3
Food was average.
Service was below average.
Ordered grilled chicken and pork sisig. Sisig was ok in taste but chicken tasted below average. By the time they served us the chicken, it was very cold. And too without any cutlery. We had to ask multiple times for cutlery and tissue papers.
Also one of the beer they served was not even cold. Ordered 500ml of water but they gave us 350ml. I don’t know how there staff is operating.
Service
Dine in
Meal type
Dinner
Food: 1
Service: 1
Atmosphere: 1
I asked a chicken burrito and they gave me wrap with rice, no chicken, no salad, no sour cream and no cheese. Also we asked for a bacon and cheese burger, and we received a small patty with a big bread, burn bacon, no lettuce and cold fries and aaaah and we found bone in the patty. We waited 1 hour for this and pay ph$850. Nobody said sorry.
Service
Dine in
Meal type
Dinner
Price per person
₱800–1,000
Food: 1
Service: 1
Atmosphere: 1
The food was great, pancit bihon is good, there beef brocolli was amazing, overall experience was awesome...
Thankyou so much...
Service
Dine in
Meal type
Lunch
Price per person
₱200–400
Food: 5
Service: 5
Atmosphere: 5
Recommended dishes
Sizzling Liempo
Looks great from the outside. But the staff and the food are horrible best to stay away from this one. We ordered a coke and a lemonade and got 2 cokes. We ordered 2 burger meals and then they put the order in wrong and we only ended up getting one. The lady who served us didn’t care and was generally rude. Food took forever to arrive too with people who ordered after us getting their food first.
Service
Dine in
Meal type
Dinner
Price per person
₱400–600
Food: 1
Service: 1
Atmosphere: 3
The service was great. We were seated quickly, and the order didn't take long to be served. The menu had a lot of choices. We ordered the sizzling pork sisig and grilled liempo with a side of fries. For drinks, we had the banana milk shake.
The food was okay. The sisig tasted good. The liempo was a bit lacking in seasoning, and the lettuce leaf it was plated with permeated the meat with a strange combination of flavors.
The 2nd floor gave you a view overlooking the street across and gave off a nice ambient street noise to eat with.
Would probably eat here again, but I will make sure to order other things.
Service
Dine in
Meal type
Dinner
Food: 3
Service: 5
Atmosphere: 5
This is a place to get away from the rain, and the second floor gives an overview of the main street. The beer is reasonably priced at 80 PHP, and the refrigerator keeps both that and other drinks at a refreshing temperature. They also had fresh chili upon request. That's about where the positive notes end.
When ordering the Philly cheesesteak, the waitress returned after 10-15 minutes to let us know that they were completely out of beef, ironic as a great deal of the items on the menu are supposed to have beef in them. We ordered the boneless fried chicken with rice and gravy instead. We also ordered beef Bulalo, a philipino beef soup, as well as pork Liempo and chicken chop suey.
When the food arrived it was a disappointment. The beef Bulalo was the only dish that was decent, savory and salty soup with a lot of flavor from the beef . The pork Liempo was mostly grilled fat with a hint of meat, a pity since the marinade and barbecue flavor was a good mix and left a desire for more meat.
The boneless fried chicken was a mistake - although properly cooked, it had a less than generous coating of batter. In other circumstances this would have been a negative. This time it turned out to be a good thing, since the chicken had been fried in the same oil as the squid that had been served earlier (that day?). The taste of squid and old cooking oil was dominating the entire taste of the chicken, and if the batter hadn't been so thin we would have had even more of it. We named it the "squicken" and had a good laugh, but I seriously would not recommend this to anyone.
We are visiting El Nido in late May early June, in the "off season". This might be the reason why they didn't have the ingredients for the entire menu and were using the cooking oil too long, but other reviews tell of similar experiences.
The food experience with the pork and squicken was horrible, The cold beer and friendly enough staff saves the place from a one star review (the closest one I have ever encountered).
I cannot account for the vegetarian alternatives, they might be better as our gripes are mostly with the meat (or lack thereof).
If you love seafood so much that you wish chicken would taste the same, this is the place for you! Otherwise, I recommend that you try someplace else, we will for the remainder of our stay.
Service
Dine in
Meal type
Dinner
Price per person
₱600–800
Food: 1
Service: 2
Atmosphere: 2
