Everything at Steak :@)

5 P. Guevarra St. cor. V Cruz

San Juan, Metro Manila

Philippines

Affordable Grill Items... Decent Food

Papa John's :@)

53-B Annapolis St., Greenhills

San Juan City, Metro Manila

Philippines

Better ingredients???... Same pizza...

Bite Club :@)

213 Katipunan Extension, Quezon 

Metro Manila

Tel # 911-0859 

Because they fight hunger... Good...

Kamay Kainan :@)

Market Market, The Fort

Taguig, Metro Manila

Philippines

(02) 889-9883

Filipino Favorites meets Buffet Table...

World Class Kababs :@)

E. Rodriguez Ave. cor. Tomas Morato

Quezon City, Metro Manila

Philippines

More 24 hour Kababs... and on a budget too

Tokyo Tokyo :@)

Japanese on the Go...It's Tokyo Tokyo...

Yogi Berry Frozen Yogurt :@)

2/F Vmall, Greenhills Shopping Center

San Juan City, Metro Manila

Flavored Froyo on the Go... 

Tender Bob's :@)

6/F Shangri-la Plaza

EDSA Cor. Shaw Blvd.

Manduluyong

638-7168

Tender Bobs....burgers, steaks, and bbq

Tokyo Cafe :@)

G/Lvl. South Wing, Main Mall Bldg.

Pasay City, Metro Manila

Philippines

2/Lvl. SM North The Block

Quezon City, Metro Manila

Philippines

The Venice Piazza, Mckinley Hill

Taguig City, Metro Manila

Philippines

Western Cuisine and Service Meets Eastern Food Artistry

Fruit Magic Lounge :@)

Mckinley Hills, Fort Bonifacio

Taguig City, Metro Manila

(02)8560454

Fruit Magic has been around serving fruit shakes in the Philippines since it opened in 1993. Recently they branched out into selling food with a few of their concept "cafes" called Fruit Magic Lounge. They serve pizzas, wraps, sandwiches and pastas to go with their juices.

Fruit Magic Lounge in Piazza (Mckinley Hills)

Mango Frugurt P95 ($2.25)

McDonalds :@)

Various locations around the Philippines... and around the world

So for fairness sake we decided to put in McDonald's. The thing is McDonald's is found all over the world, but due to differing tastes of each locality McDonald's tries it best to cater to these local tastes. Examples of these are McDonald's serving 1pc/2pc chicken meals with rice or the chicken fillet and Hamdesal to name a few.

Basically everything is virtually the same with all McDonald's as seen below

Cheeseburger P39 (0.75$)

A Veneto Napoli Pizzeria Ristorante :@)

SM Megamall, Pasig City

Lower Ground Floor Building A

(where the skating rink used to be/near food court)

So I finally ate at A Veneto again, which made me giddy. For me A Veneto is the best pasta place around in the Philippines that is pretty affordable. They also serve good pizza which is an added bonus for this restaurant.

Honestly though to us Filipinos, Italian food is basically Pizza and Pasta. What sets A Veneto apart from the rest is they serve the most authentic pasta and pizza dishes around for this price range. Most restaurants that actually serve authentic stuff will charge you as much as P500 up for a dish. The terribly cheap stuff though gets extremely localized in flavor which deviates entirely from the dish being considered "Italian".

There are pros and cons to localizations of certain dishes. Some of these localizations have led to great and not so bad pizza parlors such as Handuraw Pizza, Sandy's Pizza, 3M pizza and the like. It also led to such horror stories such as the infamous "Spagetchup" and the decent Old Spaghetti House. A Veneto's other selling point for me is the servings. Honestly even I'm extremely full after one full serving of their pasta dish.

Chicken Cutlet Parmigiana P240 (5$)

Ersao :@)

So the search for the best taiwanese restaurant is still on.... (As of now...Resto 15F remains on top)

and tonight...we finally got to Ersao!

Here's Mikey with Mango Shake P45 ($1 ) on the left....

and Taro Shake P40 ($1 ) on the right

In terms of Shakes...i could say Ersao does a great job emulating the ones they serve in Taiwan.

Tapa King :@)

Tapa King

Pioneer Street, Barangay Kapitolyo, Pasig City

*branches all over the metro can be found in the website

www.tapaking.com.ph

633-TAPA (8272)

24 hour delivery on most branches

Dome Cafe :@)

Before anything, please forgive me for the crappy picture. Didn't have my camera on that day ; P

Dome Cafe

Ground Level, Shangri-La Plaza Mall

6359746

10am-8pm

Check other branches at http://www.dome.com.ph/

Originally from Australia, Dome café brings to the Philippines a great selection of coffee, salads, pastas, main dishes, and desserts. This coffee shop may not have the super friendly and welcoming staff of starbucks but it has more of an up scale and professional feel.More importantly, it didnt have the "wanabe-serious" college students crowd starbucks has.

Razons: :@)

Razon's of Guangua

22 Jupiter Street Bel-Air Village, Makati 897-2481 or

Pasig City Golf, Ortigas Center

and many more branches.

This afternoon, I decided that I needed something to cool my body down. What better way than to pigout on....HALOHALO!!! After driving around, and trying to decide where to get good halo-halo, I decided to try out the famous Razon's Halo-Halo.

Razon's is actually a famous restaurant found in the province of PIGOUTS, Pampanga. The owner go so much customers coming all the way from Manila, that he decided to branch out to the metro.