Date Budget: PhP 600
Actual Spend: PhP 525
Quality: 5/5
Service: 3/5
Accessibility: 3/5
Fun Factor: 5/5
Overall Experience: 4/5
Highlights
- Authentic fresh shawarma sandwich at 3 for PhP120
- The best kebab in town served with Arabic rice and salad
- Falafel: the unexpected but satisfying veggie treat!
Date Budget: PhP 1700
Actual Spend: PhP 1649
Quality: 3/5
Service: 3/5
Accessibility: 4/5
Fun Factor: 3/5
Overall Experience: 3/5
Highlights
- Brutally Buttered Shrimps at Cornelio's
- Lolo Nonoy's Crispy Crablets and Calamares: definitely worth the wait
- Fresh Squid Salad and Chili Crabs at Blue Lagoon
- Cool desserts and free WiFi at Ice Valley
- Palawan Danggit: marinated, not dried!
Date Budget: PhP 600
Actual Spend: PhP 582
Quality: 4/5
Service: 5/5
Accessibility: 3/5
Fun Factor: 4/5
Overall Experience: 4/5
Highlights
- Great-tasting Thai rice toppings in tilted bowls
- Very big serving for a "small" Pad Thai
- Heart-shaped Sticky Rice with Ripe Mangoes for dessert
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 200
Actual Spend: PhP 199
Quality: 5/5
Service: 5/5
Accessibility: 4/5
Fun Factor: 4/5
Overall Experience: 4/5
Highlights
- Fill-all-you can cup: get all the yogurt flavors and toppings you want!
- Convenient locations in Makati (Paseo and Ayala Triangle), Eastwood, and Shangri-La Plaza.
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
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.
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 600
Actual Spend: PhP 546
Quality: 5/5
Service: 4/5
Accessibility: 3/5
Fun Factor: 4/5
Overall Experience: 4/5
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.
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
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
Date Budget: PhP 300
Actual Spend: PhP 264
Quality: 5/5
Service: 3/5
Accessibility: 3/5
Fun Factor: 4/5
Overall Experience: 3/5
Highlights
- Unique smoky pork sisig: the dish that made them famous
- Relaxing al fresco dining experience
- Artery-clogging clear mushroom soup
- Rich-tasting kangkong in oyster sauce
- Free pitcher of their house blend iced tea (for Groupon customers on Saturdays only)
- Turon with ice cream for a happy ending
- Ideal place for a get-together with family and friends
Update (11/24/2014): Makati branch is now closed. You may proceed to Kalayaan QC branch (Monday-Saturday) to enjoy their great sisig.
Date Budget: PhP 300
Actual Spend: PhP 290
Quality: 5/5
Service: 5/5
Accessibility: 4/5
Fun Factor: 3/5
Overall Experience: 4/5
Highlights
- Makati Coffee Shop that's not in Makati
- Best dinuguan
- Top-notch clubhouse sandwich
Date Budget: PhP 200
Actual Spend: PhP 155
Quality: 5/5
Service: 5/5
Accessibility: 3/5
Fun Factor: 5/5
Overall Experience: 4/5
Highlights
- Wide variety of tea blends and add-ons
- Amazing Red Milk Tea
- Sugar Lick Ice Cream with fun flavors
Date Budget: PhP 300
Actual Spend: PhP290
Quality: 4/5
Service: 5/5
Accessibility: 4/5
Fun Factor: 5/5
Overall Experience: 4/5
Highlights
- Great service!
- Cozy "kubo" feel
- Affordable Filipino dishes in large servings
- Spectacular view overlooking the eastern part of Metro Manila in a cold evening breeze (Antipolo away from Antipolo!)
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
Highlights
- Soft grilled beef pieces in bootstrap sauce
- Big servings!
Update (11/24/2014): Mad Marks Glorietta5, Makati is now open.
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 502
Quality: 4/5
Service: 4/5
Accessibility: 3/5
Fun Factor: 4/5
Overall Experience: 4/5
Highlights
- Another great garage-turned-cafe in Kapitolyo
- Tasty and filling thin-crust Margherita Pizza
- Absolutely nutty Pistachio Daiquiri Cake
- Mini Pavlova Cake: Mango Bravo's little brother
Date Budget: PhP 550
Actual Spend: PhP 545
Quality: 5/5
Service: 5/5
Accessibility: 3/5
Fun Factor: 5/5
Overall Experience: 4/5
Highlights
- Japanese feel in and out!
- Generously stuffed California Maki
- Niku Udon: great broth, great noodles!
- Tonkatsu with the most authentic sauce
- Koroke Bento: bang for the buck!
