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| - My boyfriend took me to this place because he was across the plaza at the Persian restaurant and this place smelled SO GOOD that he had to go in and take a menu for later.
When we walked in, we were pleasantly surprised by the decor - very cute. A server(?) brought us to a table right away, and we started perusing the menu. Everything looked delicious, but we were on a semi-budget so couldn't order a lot of the stuff we would have loved to try *by the look of things*.
So, being that we hadn't tried Philippine food before, we chose one of the combination platters at the back that came with Tofu and Pork stir fried, fried squid, and a seafood dish with all sorts of yummy sounding seafood.
It took us a while, and the waiter came and asked up for drinks. Got water, received it, ok.
It took 30min for the waiter to come back to take our order. We had to physically ASK someone else to take our order because we were getting so hungry. And right after we ordered? They brought out the food of the couple beside us and put it on our table. We were surprised and passed the rightful food over to them.
Another 30-45 minutes later, our food comes out. Now, again, I stress that we haven't tried this type of food before, but we are big and not super picky eaters, so we weren't expecting to be so heavily disappointed (we rarely are). But the squid was SO crunchy it hurt to bite through the crust from the deep frying, and the seafood dish was mushy and disgusting. The only semi-passable dish was the tofu and pork, but there was a lot less of this dish than the other ones.
The only thing we enjoyed was the garlic fried rice.
The staff and service was worse than I've ever experienced in any place. The waiters MUST have been stoned or have had absolutely no experience with serving, because this was just laughable. The food was also not to our taste, and we can't really imagine to anyone else's either.
Disappointed, and for a price tag of $50, we expected a lot more.
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