Date Budget: PhP 350
Actual Spend: PhP 330
Quality: 3/5
Service: 4/5
Accessibility: 3/5
Fun Factor: 3/5
Overall Experience: 3/5
Highlights
- Great price, wide food variety buffet in Marikina
- Fresh salads, great kare-kare and menudo, wide set of local desserts!
- Relaxed ambiance by the river banks
Date Budget: PhP 500
Actual Spend: PhP 455.32
Quality: 3/5
Service: 2/5
Accessibility: 4/5
Fun Factor: 3/5
Overall Experience: 3/5
Highlights
- Relaxed American diner feel
- Relatively affordable value meals: cheaper than ala carte
- Sinful Philly Cheese Steak Sandwich
- American-style hamburger with lettuce and tomatoes
- Large cut fries!
Update (11/24/2014): Budget combo meals are no longer available.
Date Budget: PhP 300
Actual Spend: PhP 304
Quality: 4/5
Service: 4/5
Accessibility: 3/5
Fun Factor: 5/5
Overall Experience: 5/5
Highlights
- Beef Wanton Noodles in a BIG bowl!
- Beef Ampalaya that is BIG in size, and BIG in taste!
- White Rabbit soft milk candy: a childhood favorite
- Weird-looking but great tasting tea boiled egg
Date Budget: PhP 400
Actual Spend: PhP 320
Quality: 4/5
Service: 4/5
Accessibility: 5/5
Fun Factor: 3/5
Overall Experience: 4/5
Highlights
- Wide selection of Indian curry (vegetable, chicken, lamb)
- Rich tasting dishes
- Comes with spiced rice and authentic sauces
- Budget combo meals available at Food Choices outlet
Date Budget: PhP 400
Actual Spend: PhP 336
Quality: 4/5
Service: 4/5
Accessibility: 3/5
Fun Factor: 4/5
Overall Experience: 4/5
Highlights
- Bright colored Indonesian-themed interiors
- Uniquely Indonesian Gado Gado Salad: vegetables in peanut sauce
- Authentic Beef Rendang
Date Budget: PhP 400
Actual Spend: PhP 365
Quality: 5/5
Service: 4/5
Accessibility: 3/5
Fun Factor: 4/5
Overall Experience: 4/5
Highlights
- Homy ambiance; less crowded compared to other branches
- Saucy Hickory Ribs without the bones
- Golden brown Pork Scallopini
- BIG servings for main courses
- Great desserts!
Date Budget: PhP 500
Actual Spend: PhP 438
Quality: 4/5
Service: 5/5
Accessibility: 3/5
Fun Factor: 4/5
Overall Experience: 3/5
Highlights
- Allergen-free Vegetable Pad Thai by request
- Great Pork Satay with peanut sauce and side salad
- Simple, well-lit ambiance utilizing natural light
Date Budget: PhP 350
Actual Spend: PhP 335
Quality: 4/5
Service: 4/5
Accessibility: 4/5
Fun Factor: 3/5
Overall Experience: 4/5
Highlights
- Great dressing in a great burger
- Large cut fries
- Best value all day breakfast: burger patty, french toasts, salad, and iced tea
Date Budget: PhP 500
Actual Spend: PhP 405
Quality: 5/5
Service: 5/5
Accessibility: 4/5
Fun Factor: 5/5
Overall Experience: 5/5
Highlights
- Same eclectic ambiance as Cafe Juanita
- Authentic Japanese menu
- Slot machines, Japan-made bicycle and other interesting stuff
- High-end ambiance with a budget-friendly menu
Update (11/24/2014): Soho has been renamed "HARU" and is now located beside the new Cafe Juanita location (just a few steps away). Meals are now a bit more pricey.
Date Budget: PhP 350
Actual Spend: PhP 310
Quality: 4/5
Service: 4/5
Accessibility: 4/5
Fun Factor: 5/5
Overall Experience: 4/5
Highlights
- Healthy yet yummy vegetarian food = HAPPINESS
- Cozy feel
- Unique food concepts
Date Budget: PhP 400
Actual Spend: PhP 385
Quality: 4/5
Service: 4/5
Accessibility: 3/5
Fun
Factor: 4/5
Overall Experience: 4/5
Highlights
- Authentic Thai Food
- Thai version of milk tea
- Located at "Backwell" in Makati
Date Budget: PhP 350
Actual Spend: PhP 335
Quality: 5/5
Service: 5/5
Accessibility: 3/5
Fun
Factor: 5/5
Overall Experience: 5/5
Highlights
- Motor sports-themed restaurant
- Superb dishes
Update (11/24/2014): Big D's has transferred to its new location at Eastwood City.
Date Budget: PhP 450
Actual Spend: PhP 404
Quality: 5/5
Service: 5/5
Accessibility: 4/5
Fun Factor: 5/5
Overall Experience: 5/5
Highlights
- Fall in love with this art gallery that serves great food in the heart of Katipunan
- Paint limitless flavors with their flavored fries and dips served in a palette
- Enjoy the Mona Lisa Burger: Budget Dates' best pick so far
- Feel the harmony of a variety of sausages in their great pasta
Date Budget: PhP 400
Actual Spend: PhP 390
Quality: 4/5
Service: 4/5
Accessibility: 3/5
Fun Factor: 4/5
Overall Experience: 4/5
Highlights
- "Homey" ambiance
- Interesting menu items with chocolate on!
- Buy 1 Take 1 chocolate cake
Date Budget: PhP 450
Actual Spend: PhP 420
Quality: 4/5
Service: 3/5
Accessibility: 3/5
Fun Factor: 4/5
Overall Experience: 4/5
Highlights
- Two scoops of gelato at Don Vito for only PhP 100
- Fresh creamy shakes from Jonah's at Station 1
- Unique halo-halo experience at Halowich
Date Budget: PhP 300
Actual Spend: PhP 300
Quality: 4/5
Service: 5/5
Accessibility: 5/5
Fun Factor: 3/5
Overall Experience: 4/5
Highlights
- FREE Birthday Noodles for the entire month of February 2012
- Fried rice with vegetables: Yang Chow minus the itch
- Free kropeck appetizer
- Great tasting dumpling soup
Update (11/24/2014): Megamall branch is no longer open for business. :(
Date Budget: PhP 400
Actual Spend: PhP 385
Quality: 4/5
Service: 4/5
Accessibility: 5/5
Fun Factor: 4/5
Overall Experience: 4/5
Highlights
- Hickory ribs with a sweet touch: in honey bourbon sauce!
- Creamy mushroom soup
- Steak and red pasta combo at an affordable price
Date Budget: PhP 350
Actual Spend: PhP 316
Quality: 4/5
Service: N/A
Accessibility: 5/5
Fun Factor: 5/5
Overall Experience: 5/5
Highlights
- Allergen-less sushi
- Japanese-Hawaiian fusion
- Cheap and fun alternative to commercial Spam musubi
- Covers all major food groups (Go-Grow-Glow)
- Fun bonding experience
- An explosion of flavors in one bite!
Date Budget: PhP 450
Actual Spend: PhP 420
Quality: 5/5
Service: 3/5
Accessibility: 4/5
Fun Factor: 4/5
Overall Experience: 4/5
Highlights
- Affordable Italian Fast Food
- Same as the old Fazoli's but with a bigger menu
Date Budget: PhP 350
Actual Spend: PhP 332
Quality: 5/5
Service: 4/5
Accessibility: 3/5
Fun Factor: 4/5
Overall Experience: 4/5
Highlights
- Authentic Chinese dumplings from Dong Bei
- Great tasting Chinese-style fresh lumpia from Po Heng
- Chocolate coated sunflower seeds
- The legendary Ube Hopia by Mr. Ube himself
Date Budget: PhP 350
