Bacolod's version of dampa, this place has both outside covered as well as inside air conditioned seating. I saw a sign that said 10% service charge for sitting inside the air conditioned area, which was fine by me. I'm happy to pay a little extra to sit in an air conditioned restaurant.
First, let me say the servers we had were very helpful and took care of us throughout our entire meal. They were quite attentive, more so than most places I've been to.
So where do I begin... as we approached the restaurant, it just seems to be this hole in the wall side of the road spot, by many accounts it is, however this little place opens inside to a much larger dining area and is quite busy with people.
As we were choosing the dishes to eat, the butcher, or whatever you call the guy who's in charge of taking your seafood, weighing it, and asking how you would like it cooked, so this guy pushed some rotten fish on us! WTF!
Let me say this, the adobo squid was really good, the lobster was ok, just ok or just sub par, the scallops are about average as anyplace in the Philippines, but the fish they served in the soup was straight up rotten!! You could smell it right away as soon as they brought it to the table. I wanted to complain but everyone I was with said just don't eat it... Filipino shyness of actually saying what's on your mind, not polite really, just I think it's more of a cultural shyness. Nonetheless, WTF! Rotten fish, NASTY!
I'm going to leave it at that. So many blogs I read tout this restaurant. SKIP IT! Go to a real restaurant and enjoy a nice meal or inspect what you purchase before you buy it. Enough said.
My bill was over 2300 pesos... seriously I could have have a Wagyu Steak and Bone Marrow for about 500 less and enjoyed savoring my meal!
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