Boracay food Rants

Here are the lost causes. Maybe I have expected too much from these places, but we were paying good money so I suppose its not just the taste but the service as well which should be worth the price.

The famous NigiNigi eat all you can Huevos Mexicanos. So how much eggs can you eat for breakfast? Just a plate. If it tasted better, I would have asked for more. But no, the green and red pepper strips were getting in the way as I was chewing through what a bit of egg shell. Good there was slices of bread and marmalade on the side.

Another famous place, Fridays. We got the house specialties, duck and ostrich. Excited as we were after waiting under the sweltering heat we got blood on our cooked birds. The waiter forgot to ask how we wanted our dish done. Too bad. After serving the waiters were nowhere to be found. I guess if you are made to wear polo and rubber shoes on a seaside restaurant, you would rahter take the heat inside the kitchen than attend to your guest. I have heard my friends tell me great things about this place but it so sad they could not have lived up to their reputation for all their guests.

Cafe del Mar. Spawned a techno CD long before Armand Tahanglangit invented Boracay sound. But the mermaid margarita stained my yellow shirt blue and didn't tasted half as good. We thought we were going to have chili crab Singaporean style, but instead it was crabs in coconut. I could not read in the dark surroundings of the beach lounge area. But disappointing, I have tasted crabs better somewhere else at tenth of its price. I do commend the croutons on the mashed squash on coconut cream soup. But otherwise, just get your San Miguel if you're planning to eat here.

Worstest place to eat. Lemon Cafe. Going to the D'mall is like going to a mall in
Manila. It's like they have taken a piece of the crazy city into paradise which entirely ruined it complete with eye-candy ferris wheel. So The cafe was the only thing that stood out different. But having pineapple lemon shake for a bestseller must be a joke. This was what the waitress recommended. It was like sour mixed with sour. To top it I ordered lemon tarts that was sour as hell. Hey, that's why it's called lemon cafe. They don't even have ice water. And they have like four people behind the counter and only one pregnant girl waiting on the tables. Talk about labor injustice. So I just ended up finding solace taking a picture of the ferris wheel.

Boracay Food Raves II

La Reserve is one of the finest and oldest resorts in the island. True to its legacy, the food remained as it was before. The seafood pasta is more seafood than pasta, with shrimps, squid and fish fillets swimming in a creamy sauce. The chicken cordon blue melted in my mouth. The watermelon freeze was better than milk sogged shakes at Jonah's. It was good to see that there are places in the island that never changed.

It was ironic that we have to eat at Cyma not in Manila but in Boracay. But the old reliable dessert places are now gone like Caribu for the Banana oreo and Stables for the kalamansi squares. So we got the sampler and the mango flambe. Not exciting as I would have expected, but not bad at all.

Boracay Food Raves

Anybody can do a review but not anybody can write a book. But reviews give readers a chance to say what they exactly feel about the work and serves as a way for the writer to improve. Too bad I grew up in a culture where comments are seen as destructive as if all of us werte created perfect.

So to make this an official blog, the next posts will be all about food I have sampled during my recent Boracay trip.

Let's start with the two bestest. I could not decide which but hands down Dos Mestizos and Nami are winners.

Enter a perfectly lit up restaurant not too dark not too bright, you are warmly greeted by the manager, Javier and the bubbly waitress Joan. The lemon mojito is to die for probably, the best in the island. The paella valenciana was superb, rivals those in Manila. The Callos had flavors of ox tripe drowned in spices instead of tomato sauce. But what I loved most was the fresh squid stuffed with tomatoes, slightly salted eggs and onions, every bite had juices blending into one perfect flavor. The dessert was delicate custard cream with faint hints of sweetness and mangoes.

The restaurant was run efficiently with personalized service. Here, they will actually give you good advice as to what is good on the menu. I don't even know of any restaurant which will give away the brand of their balsamic vinegar. These were what made the old Boracay restaurants different from the others on the rest of the islands. Coupled with food that did not disappoint me, this is the perfect place to eat in Boracay.

I had lunch in Nami. The table was set on a balcony with a breath taking view of Diniwid Beach. If you hate the pandemonium on white beach, then this is the last remaining vestiges of what Boracay was like ten years ago before concrete roads and buildings have taken over the island. I got lamb for lunch. Probably the best lamb I've had. Not that I have eaten lamb a lot of times. It has no aftertaste of gory bland lamb fat which I so hate about lamb. I stayed in Nami for a day, the service was excellent, the views stunning and the rooms well built. If you are going to splurge then this is the place to stay and eat as well.