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| - After hearing so much about Filipino cuisine from a friend I was really intrigued. Then once while hanging out in Toronto I passed Lamesa and took a quick look at their menu. I loved the way they modernized the cuisine and the description of all the food made me determined to try it.
Its important to note that you definitely should reserve a table, especially for a Sunday dinner when they so the special Kamayan style dinner.
I went on a Saturday night. Upon entering I was immediately greeted and shown our table.
The menu was short and simple and I already had in mind what I wanted to get (based on my friends recommendation). However, the server suggested that we should order a couple of things and share, since the portion sizes are quite small and also because that is the traditional way of eating.
The prices were pretty steep for the claimed 'small serving size', but nevertheless, we ended up ordering almost everything on the menu.
I appreciated that they brought the food in pairs and cleared up immediately once done with a dish, so that the table was never too crowded with plates.
The food was to be eaten with either plain rice or garlic rice. We got both, but only the garlic rice was demolished, since it was so good, even on its own.
Every single dish I had was delicious. What I would recommend from the appetizers would be the tuna kinilaw, the lechon, talong salad (charred eggplant), pancit canton (egg noodles).
Then from the mains: some steak (don't remember the name), pork humba, and the chicken adobo.
Finally the dessert we got the Ube leche flan, which was HEAVEN!! we also got the halo halo, which was good but did not shine after eating the ube flan.
So overall, service was awesome, ambience was awesome, food was exceptional, price was a bit high but worth it.
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