going colonial

location: padre damaso @ greenbelt 5
starters: pumpkin soup & crispy chicken skin & tail
main course: pork binagoongan and tapang usa with omelette
dessert: sisa's dementia/coffee/tea
total cost: around Php 1,300

VAL:

i've been eyeing this resto for quite sometime now and have always been intrigued by it. and so we decided to try it. it was a rather small place but we were seated in this couch with like walls around us that made us feel like we were in a private room. the waiters were friendly and gave us water right away (which is something i look for in restaurants).

for starters we had pumpkin soup and crispy chicken skin and tail. the soup was quite good. we only split it in half coz i can never finish a bowl by myself. the chicken skin was TO DIE FOR. seriously it was that good and ganun kasakit sa batok. after about 5 or 6 pieces, i could feel my head expanding. tsk tsk. not good at all. but definitely something worth trying.

for my main course i had tapang usa, which i had 2nd thoughts about because i've never eaten an usa before. it was yummy enough. what i HATED about it was that it was very oily. Not the tapa but the omelette and garlic rice that came with it. i hardly finished the rice and the egg because i felt like my mouth was one big tub of lard already. i just finished the meat coz the meal was rather expensive- it was P450.

i also got to try erik's order, which was pork binagoongan. i didn't like it all, not that i like anything binagoongan in the first place but this one was really salty.

good thing our dessert was really good. it is chocolate heaven. we had a cake called sisa's dementia, which was chocolate ganache, chocolate mousse and almond something. supper yummy! its just how i like my cake, soft and fluffy and not too sweet.

to our surprise, we also got a freebie dessert because we answered the customer survey. they gave us leche flan, which was not really good (but of course, its free).

over-all, it was quite a good resto i may just have ordered the wrong main course.