We were looking for authentic food from the Philippines, so our hosts took us here and boy was it a…read moretreat! They did all the ordering for us and since we had a large group, I have pictures posted but don't have each dish identified. We all shared each of them and the dish that stood out to me was the roasted oysters with cheese. To top of the meal, we each had an order of Flan - which was delicious (see picture). You won't go wrong with a stop here!

Crisostomo is an authentic Filipino small restaurant in Laguna. We were on our way to Tagaytay for…read morea short vacation stay. I was craving Filipino food since I am here in PI. We got to the restaurant when it first opened for lunch. It did fill up the small restaurant once we sat down. Everything was good. Some were a little salty like their diniguan. The pictures on their menu seem deceiving as some of the dishes did not look like what we received. I liked their Laing, lengua, crab paste with rice, veggies with tuyo, etc. I did not like their calamansi drink or fresh buko drink. The buko seemed to be opened already so the outside turn brown. Their desserts like mango and cream pie was very good with fresh mangoes on top but was missing the ingredients in the middle like in the menu image. Their halo-halo was good and big with lots of ingredients. If I am in the area, and can afford the calories, I would still come back! Yumm! [65/100]

This was a pleasant discovery when the hubby had a company activity in Seda Hotel Nuvali. We were…read morein search for a new restaurant to try and Caldo in the Fiesta Mall was the first to catch our eye. It's perfect as we had our fur babies with us and they have outside seating. Browsing the menu, you can get a feel that it has been well though of They have a good selection of vegetables and meat dishes. They all looked so good that it was hard to settle with just a few. We started out with some appetizers in the fashion of Filipino street food with the gambas+longanisa and satay sampler. But even prior to that, we were given bread with pate while waiting for our orders. We couldn't decide on what to order so we got both the chicken and chorizo rice and garlic aligue rice with chicharron. We matched these with the grilled beef belly and ox tail and trip kare kare. As if these were not enough, we also sampled the paksiw na boneless bangus belly with roasted coconut. Unlike the traditional paksiw with the more prominent sour taste of the vinegar, I liked this better because the coconut added some sweetness to it. Because we loved it so much and we didn't get to taste the pork belly, we came back for a second time. We again had the same set of rice, but this time we made sure we had the roast pork belly with tamarind rub. we were not able to try it the first time as we were too early. Apparently it takes a lot of time to prepare and does not get available until after noon. We also had the laing con alamang fresco. I like laing and this, I love. It can be on the expensive side. But the portions are adequate. This is now a favorite spot for me and the hubby

My friends and I had lunch here driving back to Manila from Tagaytay. They had a good experience…read morehere so they chose this resto when we got to Solenad. I was surprised at how pricey their food was given the interiors of the resto was really simple - like an airconditioned carinderia. This was because their food portions were big. I got the seafood in a regular plate. It came with shrimp, squid, tanigue and alimasag. The sauce was too rich and thick I lost interest in the dish after a few bites. The alimasag had no meat in it at all. Would have been better if they replaced it with more shrimp or squid. I didnt eat the complimentary soup because it used meat stock. My friends liked their sisig and chicaron bulaklak. Overall I wasn't impressed. If you are a meat eater you might love their food.

Filipino food is something I believe is something we all love very much. We cannot go wrong with a…read moregreat "Daing na Bangus" or "Kare-Kare." This restaurant specializes on those two dishes and they do it in utter perfection. This a small establishment seated in the confines of Nuvali. It's a simple restaurant that probably has a seating capacity of 30 people. They have a wide menu of your favorite Filipino dishes that it's such a family friendly place. Everything is served family style and comes to you very fast. The food is so good that you'll just keep wanting more. The best part is that you can take home marinated Bangus and just fry it at home whenever you're looking for this particular, wonderful taste.

Always a long line but the Food is amazingzing specially the beef shank soup (Bulalo) and worth the…read morewait

We always make it a point to eat at Rose & Grace every time we travel south. I've been coming here…read moresince I was a kid and I'm so glad that it's still around to serve the same food I've known growing up. My favorites include longganisa (sausage) and they are known for their bulalo (beef soup with bone marrow). They serve the beef soup as a compliment when you dine in so you don't have to order soup unless you want to beef or the bone marrow. I'm always sure to have a hearty meal whenever I come to this place. So good ive even made it a point for my partner to come try this place when he visited.

TGIF, Balanga, Bataan has one of the worst customer service I have experienced. I've dined here for…read moreover a year and it was seldom I received KNOCK YOUR SOCKS OFF (HIGH QUALITY) service. Today Nov. 1, 2018 I asked a server for additional mayonnaise and he responded by pointing out the tartar sauce. I gave him reasonable time to bring my request, not only did he not bring my rrquest, he totally forgot about me. I asked another server for the same, and additional tartar sauce. He brought the mayo, and no tartar sauce. They do not re-visit customer to ask or upsell anymore products. Or just ask how is the food or if they're ok. This is TGIF, an international brand restaurant. In the U.S. Just spoke with their assistant manager, let see if this branch improves.

Late Lunch. Few customers. Very slow. Grilled pork chop arrived first before ceasar salad order…read more Patiently waited until i had to call waitress attention. Refill of mojito drink took forever. It's unlike The other TGI Friday's ive been to. Should have gone somewhere else here in Solenad. Waitress looks like Ann Curtis though.

I like Nuvali! It's a fairly new development in Laguna that's close to Manila, has great facilities…read moreand good-looking subdivisions, campuses of well-known schools, and a wakepark. Aside from that, they have a strip of establishments housing restaurants and retail outlet stores. During one of our visits, we decided to have dinner at Seafood Island. PROS: The boodle fight mode of serving your food is always fun, especially if you eat with your hands. You can pretend you're on a beach outing. CONS: The servings of rice are fine, but the word that I could think of when it comes to their viand is "sporadic." Like it's so little, that they look sad and splotchy. If you thought that the amount of rice is a redeeming factor, it isn't because it doesn't taste good as well. It's like old rice fried again and again that it feels like pebbles in your mouth - hard and dry. Their grilled meat is rubbery and burnt at the sides. And the salads look pitiful. I don't want to think that just because it's a provincial branch means that they have less food quality, but Seafood Island just gave us that impression. One of my friends who ate with us tried the one in Techno Hub and he said that this is not how the food is supposed to be. TL;DR: There are way better options of dining out in Nuvali than this place. The only reason you'd eat here is if you're *that* into boodle fights no matter the food quality.

Quick visit south of Makati. This area of nuvalle, country market etc has been consistently growing…read morefor years now. However, little Filipino outdoor BBQ joints like this makes it a pleasure to kick back, soak in the high humidity and temperature of the Philippines. Lots of working folks from offices and factories around the area sharing your bench with you. There are textile, language schools, and all sorts of shops around the area, so this is a very convenient and economical way to blow your hard earned peso. As for me, I had grilled marlin, some tuna with tamarind, (my fav) bittermellon with some scrambled eggs, rice and good 'ol San Miguel Beer....all freshly made food. Sarap...the country market is right next to this place, so I grabbed myself fresh coconuts to carve up at the hotel (don't tell Fairmont Makati I did that).