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| - I've been to a surprisingly small number of Filipino restaurants ever. So when I saw a place in Toronto near by that had good reviews, I was pretty excited to try it.
I met up with a friend here at 6PM. We were the only two in the restaurant for a while, so we were able to order and get our food pretty quickly. While we were there, the tables all got filled up, so making a reservation might be a good idea (unless you wanted to chance it).
The staff recommended that for two, it would be good to get 3 things (an entree, 1 or 2 starters, or 1 or 2 salad/side) + rice. My friend doesn't like veggies, so we ended up sharing two starters (lechon kawali--or crispy pork belly and dip; and the corned beef lumpia), an entree (chicken adobo), and a bowl of garlic rice. For us, it ended up being exactly the right amount of food for two. Enough so that we were able to also get a chocolate pandan cake for dessert, but probably not much more.
I thought the food was very good. Flavour wise, I thought everything tasted pretty good. I wish the pork belly wasn't as crispy as it was (if that makes any sense), but I thought it still tasted good. I also thought the dessert was going to be half pandan, half chocolate, but it ended up being chocolate, with a hint of pandan flavour infused in there. It was a good chocolate cake--just different from what I thought it was going to be.
Service wise: I thought it was very good.
Ambience/noise level wise: it was great for conversation.
Price wise: I think some of the other reviewers thought it could have been cheaper...obviously, I would never complain if it was cheaper. But I thought it was reasonable.
One final note: my friend had been here before and told me that the menu changes. I'd come back here to try other dishes, for sure.
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