I stopped by here a couple of Saturday's ago with my wife for dinner. We had read about Nelias on Yelp and had been looking forward to trying it. Whenever we pulled up to the restaurant I have to admit that it wasn't exactly what I was expecting. It was fairly small with a picnic table and large smoker in front. The doors to head into the restaurant were made of streamer-like plastic. Once inside we were facing the kitchen, a cash register and a soda cooler. There was also a dining room next to this which I never did see since we ended up sitting outside at the picnic table.
Since my wife and I were both interested in trying both the BBQ and Filipino food here, we decided to split a number of things. We ended up ordering a half a rack of ribs with sides of fries and linguine pasta salad as well as a chicken on a stick with white rice and then pork adobo. This was after we tried ordering fried rice instead of white rice and also chicken adobo instead of pork adobo, both of which they were out of. After ordering we went outside and took a seat to wait for our food. The first items out to us were the fries and pasta salad. The fries looked like they were freshly cut, had a nice seasoning on them and tasted great when hot. Meanwhile I wasn't expecting much out of the pasta salad. It ended up exceeding my expectations though and was much better than expected. As we were eating those two items our ribs came out next. The ribs ended up being pretty good with the ones near the end of the rack being a bit tougher than I would have liked while the ones in the middle were falling off the bone. Last but not least our pork adobo and chicken on a stick came out. It looked like they had the exact same sauce on them so I was surprised by the very different flavors between the two. Both of them ended up tasting really good and having tender and moist meat.
The bottom line for me is that I would head back to Nelias again in the future. I don't know that I would make it the only reason to head out to Ambridge but would definitely give it a shot if you are going to be in the area.