Food: Johnny Rockets

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

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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.
  

Food: Hungry Hippo

Date Budget: PhP 250
Actual Spend: PhP 238
Quality: 4/5
Service: 4/5
Accessibility: 2/5
Fun Factor: 4/5
Overall Experience: 4/5

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Highlights 

• Steak 'n with double eggs: not your usual tapsilog!
• Cheeseburger large enough to feed a hungry hippo, yet affordable enough to fit our budget.

Food: Everything at Steak

Date Budget: PhP 600
Actual Spend: PhP 546
Quality: 5/5
Service: 4/5
Accessibility: 3/5
Fun Factor: 4/5
Overall Experience: 4/5

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Highlights 

• Soft and tasty Rib Eye Steak
• Large-cut T-Bone Steak
• Great side dishes in big serving size: twice baked potato and white sauce pasta with meatball
• Apple Crumble with lots of ice cream on top: bang for the buck!
  
  Update (11/24/2014): Steak meals are now at PhP250 per order.
  

Food: Ultimate Cheesesteak

Date Budget: PhP 200
Actual Spend: PhP 180
Quality: 5/5
Service: 4/5
Accessibility: 3/5
Fun Factor: 4/5
Overall Experience: 4/5

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Highlights 

• Relatively affordable cheesy and beefy cheesesteak sandwiches
• Popeye's cheesesteak
• Free entertainment courtesy of football players in Turf BGC and the BGC Passionfest mobile concert

Food: Mad Mark's

Date Budget: PhP 300
Actual Spend: PhP 260
Quality: 4/5
Service: 3/5
Accessibility: 3/5
Fun Factor: 3/5
Overall Experience: 3/5

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Highlights 

• Soft grilled beef pieces in bootstrap sauce
• Big servings!
  
  Update (11/24/2014): Mad Marks Glorietta5, Makati is now open.
  

Food: Stackers Burger Cafe

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

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Highlights 

• Great dressing in a great burger
• Large cut fries
• Best value all day breakfast: burger patty, french toasts, salad, and iced tea

Food: S&R Food Service

Date Budget: PhP 300
Actual Spend: PhP 272
Quality: 4/5
Service: 3/5
Accessibility: 3/5
Fun Factor: 4/5
Overall Experience: 4/5

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Highlights 

• Gigantic pizza slices
• Blue Bunny ice cream served per scoop!
• Bottomless drink for only Php 39
  

Food: Good Burgers

Date Budget: PhP 200
Actual Spend: PhP 195
Quality: 4/5
Service: 4/5
Accessibility: 2/5
Fun Factor: 3/5
Overall Experience: 3/5

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Highlights 

• Another great find at Maginhawa St.
• Great burgers with vegetarian patties
• Cheese, cheese, and more cheese!

Food: Burger Boys

Date Budget: PhP 300
Actual Spend: PhP 290
Quality: 5/5
Service: 5/5
Accessibility: 3/5
Fun Factor: 5/5
Overall Experience: 4/5

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Highlights 

• 1/3-pound burgers starting at PhP 110!
• Stuffed Burger: 1/3 pounder pattie stuffed with bacon, mushroom, and cheese
• Bottled Coke products (much better than those from dispensers)
  
  Update (11/24/2014): This shop is no longer open for business. :(
  

Food: Big D's Smokehouse

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

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Highlights 

• Motor sports-themed restaurant
• Superb dishes
  Update (11/24/2014): Big D's has transferred to its new location at Eastwood City.
  

Food: TGI Fridays

Date Budget: PhP 650
Actual Spend: PhP 610
Quality: 5/5
Service: 5/5
Accessibility: 5/5
Fun Factor: 5/5
Overall Experience: 5/5

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Highlights 

• FREE Ball Park Nachos with The Bistro Club (TBC) coupons
• 20% Discount for TBC Gold Card holders
• Great Cajun Chicken Fingers with large cut fries and honey mustard sauce
• Pork chop with some Jack Daniel's touch
• Big heart-shaped balloon decor for valentines!

Food: Boracay Dining

Date Budget: PhP 1500
Actual Spend: PhP 1420
Quality: 3/5
Service: 4/5
Accessibility: 4/5
Fun Factor: 3/5
Overall Experience: 3/5

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Highlights 

• Mongolian Buffet at Sun Village for only PhP 275 per person: fresh ingredients, great service!
• Buffet Dinner with bottomless iced tea at La Carmela for only PhP 270 per person
• Hunger-buster servings at Big Mouth

Food: Rufo's

Date Budget: PhP 100
Actual Spend: PhP 94
Quality: 4/5
Service: 4/5
Accessibility: 4/5
Fun Factor: 3/5
Overall Experience: 4/5

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Highlights 

• Casual dining at fastfood prices
• Great meals below PhP 100!
• New dishes with unique "Fil-Am" flavors

Food: Kangaroo Jack

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

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Highlights 

• Hickory ribs with a sweet touch: in honey bourbon sauce!
• Creamy mushroom soup
• Steak and red pasta combo at an affordable price

Food: Wendy's Frosty Float

Date Budget: PhP 100
Actual Spend: PhP 92
Quality: 5/5
Service: 4/5
Accessibility: 5/5
Fun Factor: 4/5
Overall Experience: 4/5

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Highlights

• Your favorite Frosty with a new twist
• Customizable: choose your Frosty (vanilla or chocolate), and choose your drink (Coke, Sprite, Sarsi, Royal, and even Coke Zero!)
• Absolutely NO ICE!

Food: Mushroomburger

Date Budget: PhP 150
Actual Spend: PhP102
Quality:5/5
Service: 5/5
Accessibility: 4/5
Fun Factor: 3/5
Overall Experience: 4/5

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Highlights 

• Burger patties made of beef and mushrooms
• Yummy mushroom-rich vegetarian pancit
• Comfortable car seats
• Free wifi
• Affordable meals

Food: Burgoo

Date Budget: PhP 650
Actual Spend: PhP 632.50
Quality: 4/5
Service: 5/5
Accessibility: 5/5
Fun Factor: 5/5
Overall Experience: 5/5

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Highlights 

• Doodling while waiting
• Free Large Pizza