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| - I've gone to Casa Manila twice, once was for Summerlicious and then for Kamayan with about 10-12 people.
Kamayan Experience:
The Kamayan was okay, we (the three of us who went for Summerlicious) felt it was better. Maybe we didn't pick the best options, but we hoped we would have had the same experience we did with Summerlicious. The worst was the service however. We had to wait over an hour just to get our bill. We must have asked them over 8 times for the bill and they kept saying okay but it never came. A couple of us had to get up to approached the server for our bill. They also had so much trouble trying to get the math right with our bill. Also bear in mind that the gratuity of 20% is already included. It was really bizarre to have to wait so long for the bill. We we were very tired and frustrated at that point.
Summerlicious Experience:
We all felt we were on vacation in the restaurant. We got the pork skewers, spring rolls and their house salad as appitizer. They were all good, though the salad was a little bit lack luster. For entree we got pork belly and rice, ox tail and their sisig fries. All was very fantastic (we wete particularly impressed by the vegetables!) and the flavours were definitely singing. Just a fair warning, the sisig fries is very heavy, perhaps more lemon or lime to cut the fat would help.
For dessert we got the cassava cake, creme caramel and another cake which I forgot the name of (I was going to order their corn ice cream but apparently they did not have any ice cream available which I was really disappointed about). The creme caramel was a winner for all of us, then the mystery wafer nut cake and then the cassava cake.
Overall I recommend for the 'licious events for sure, but can't say we would want to do Kamayan again.
Food: 4/5
Service: 2/5
Atmosphere: 4.5/5
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