I've been looking for a place to fill the void that Salo Salo Grill left since their horrible health inspections. I was going to actually keep on eating there, until my family went to eat dinner there before my wedding day and my mom's boyfriend got a bad case of diarrhea that night. (Hopefully D' Pinoy Joint stays out of the SNHD's radar).
This place is up the street from Cafe de Cebu. I've had trouble with the wait time for food at Cafe de Cebu, especially when they're waiting on the lechon to be cooked/delivered, but I haven't had that issue here. Some of my favorite dishes here were the chicken skin and lechon. The tonkatsu lunch plate is also just another way of referring to lechon as well. I thought the crispy pata was a bit dry here, so I'll always get the lechon if I want to pig out. I like their Mang Tomas sauce, but I usually make my own sauce of 1 part soy sauce and 1 part lemon or lime.
The servers here have always been polite and efficient with us, and we visited soon after their grand opening. I'm just glad to have another Filipino option here on the Westside and hope the rest of the dishes I have yet to try do not disappoint. I have yet to save room for my favorite dessert, halo halo.