Special Review (Delivery): Sergeant Alimango

https://www.instagram.com/p/B1DYmamnkfM/ Address: Undeclared Date bought: August 2019 The Taste 4/5 The good: The garlic butter sauce was really, really good. They nailed the taste. There was a good balance of garlic and butter flavors plus there was even a small container of sauce in case the sauce in the tub was not enough. The shrimp...

Restaurant Review: Mamou

https://www.instagram.com/p/B0F5LQMn9aw/ https://www.instagram.com/p/B0F5einnezm/ Address: Ground Floor, Ayala Malls The 30th, Meralco Avenue, Ugong, Pasig City Date bought: July 2019 The Taste 5/5 We decided on having take out food for our anniversary and we chose to get it from one of our preferred restaurants - Mamou. The staff recommended that we have steamed live Maine lobsters for...

Restaurant Review: Menya Noodle & Bento Bar

https://www.instagram.com/p/BvqpwPPF4L0/ Address: Food Court, Ground Floor, Promenade, Greenhills Shopping Centre, Greenhills, San Juan City Date visited: January 2019 The Taste 4/5 The soup broth tasted rich. It had a deep pork flavor in it and the black garlic oil plus garlic chips really went well with the ramen and delicate tasty pork slices. The noodles were firm,...

Special Review (Delivery): Shakey’s Prosciutto Parmigiano pizza

https://www.instagram.com/p/B0Z_pXXHGz3/ Address: Total Gas Station, Magsaysay Boulevard Corner V. Mapa Street, Galas, Quezon City Date bought: June 2019 The Taste 4/5 First of all, credits to Shakey's for making a pizza with prosciutto and Parmesan. Prosciutto is dry-cured ham with a funky smell. They paired it with Parmesan, a type of cheese which also has a...

Restaurant Review: Half Saints

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bv87uFlFSWx/ Address: Ground Floor, Ignacia Place, Mother Ignacia Corner Sergeant Esguerra Avenue, South Triangle, Quezon City Date visited: March 2019 The Taste 5/5 Love at first bite. The description of Gallo Pinto x RBM in their menu read: "Dirty rice and beans topped with shredded beef, fired egg, green onions, bacon, and roasted bone marrow"....

Special Review (Drink): Chachago

https://www.instagram.com/p/BxEl1RflJn5/ Address: 53 Scout Tobias Corner Scout Gandia Street, Laging Handa, Quezon City Date bought: April 2019 The Taste 5/5 The brown sugar pearl milk tea is a winner. There is a nice balance of the warm brown sugar syrup and their milk tea. Their tea is not bitter which is great since the brown...

Restaurant Review: B.Wings

https://www.instagram.com/p/BwOjfHSFaf_/ Address: Ground Floor, Loyola Heights Condominium, Esteban Abada Street, Loyola Heights, Quezon City Date visited: January 2019 The Taste 4/5 The "Black Mamba" wings tasted as good as how they described it. Their description of this flavor in their menu was: "best seller, award-winner / bitter sweet mole cocoa undertone". Yes to all of that....

Special Review (Dessert): Elait!

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bz0Zq38HvjT/ Address: Second Floor, Eastwood Mall, Libis, Quezon City Date bought: March 2019 The Taste 4/5 Whenever we see an Elait brach, we buy something. During this visit, we tried their Chocolate Overload described as having: chocolate shards, brownies, Pocky sticks, chocolate vermicelli and chocolate drizzle on a custard-based rolled ice cream (the cookie was not...

Restaurant Review: Lula’s House of Kare-Kare

https://www.instagram.com/p/BwhGAhklNVJ/ Address: 8 Pres. Roxas Corner Major Dizon Street, Industrial Valley, Marikina City Date visited: December 2018 The Taste 4/5 The "Original Lula's House of Kare-kare" tasted good. Kare-kare is a stew of thick peanut sauce and is accompanied by bagoong alamang (fermented shrimp paste). The meat and vegetables tasted really clean which is not so...

Restaurant Review: Cyma

https://www.instagram.com/p/BxolZdIHS5K/ https://www.instagram.com/p/BxolS1KnlF-/ https://www.instagram.com/p/BxolKvtnj1p/ Address: Second Floor, Eastwood Mall, Libis, Quezon City Date visited: March 2019 The Taste 5/5 Cyma is one of our favorite restaurants and our favorite Cyma dishes are the paidakia and the chicken gyros. Paidakia is Greek grilled lamb ribs (or chops). They do this dish so well even in their other branches....