Yall done fucked up LJ's.
Never setting foot here again. Not quite as bad as Salo Salo and the other Filipino food spots giving our food a bad name for their uh, lack of cleanliness but close. The only saving grace was your food.. and well even then that's not saying much. Basically I had a gang of my co-workers come over to join me for LJ's kamayan dinner like 15 heads deep and when it was all said and done service was hard as hell to come by -- like pulling teeth just to get a glass of water, not authentic as we had wanted, the kamayan plates were completely uneven (some missing items thinking perhaps we wouldn't catch it) and to top it off we were over charged.
Mind you up until this dinner I'm trying to get a menu listing out of the server hostess (again pulling teeth), calling them several times in advance, telling them we are coming. Its like the didn't take my reservation for 15 heads seriously.
It was weird, everyone getting a separate tab for drinks... then like 15 minutes later getting another tab for our food. Say whaaat? Yeah. Then towards the end of the meal the manager tries to sweat us talking about we failed to pay for one person. Manager realizes he fucked up and falls back after further inspecting the bill.
Ya'll were lucky you had some Filipino food amateurs take really didn't know what was going on and that some of the food y'all put out was unique compared to some Filipino restaurants around town. Rarely do I feel like doling out the dreaded 1 star, and I was gonna give this place 2 but man everytime I think about the incident it gets me heated. We dropped a good amount of coin on the place and it was a nightmare. How are you gonna take us for granted with nearly all of us being CULINARY PROFESSIONALS.
Being in the industry I understand there can be tough nights, however when you know in advance we were coming and are unprepared, there really is no excuse for all the miss-cues that night.
Sidenote - Still having had a hankering for real Filipino food, fast forward a few weeks later me and some frustrated but determined Filipino co-workers gathered to throw down our version of what a real kamyan dinner was like and we rocked it.