Tipulo, Modern Filipino Cuisine, Antipolo City

As much as the overlooking view in Antipolo is beautiful, there aren't really much of a good restaurant around the area.  Tipulo is one of the restaurants in Antipolo, but not in the overlooking area.  It's actually inside the First Pacific Leadership Academy, along Sumulong Highway, before you get to Robinson's Antipolo if you are coming from Masinag.

We had dinner here after we watched a movie at Robinson's Antipolo.  When we came in, we were surprised because there seems to be a videoke event (maybe leadership trainees of some sort).  Service was disappointing because the waiters did not assist us even if they saw us came in hesitantly.  We had to be the one to go to them to ask where we can be seated.

Tinapa Lumpia

When I saw this in the menu, I got interested because it's something new to me.  It tasted good with a very subtle flavor of Tinapa.  I think it would be yummier if I tasted more Tinapa.  It's Tinapa Lumpia after all!

Callos

We also ordered Callos, not knowing it comes with bread, since we also ordered rice.  It's also just ok.  But it seems it was just reheated and not freshly cooked.

Sisig

The Sisig tasted like any other sisig.  I would have expected more innovation for this dish since their tag line was "Modern Filipino Cuisine".  There's nothing modern about it.  Oh well :p

Kuya J Restaurant, Serving Delicious Filipino food - SM Marikina

For Father's Day celebration, my dad's request was to eat crispy pata.  We know that all restaurants will be jam-packed so we decided to go to a nearby mall only.  We've been eyeing Kuya J for quite some time now so timing was perfect to celebrate Father's day here.  We're lucky that we're a group of 3 only so we immediately got a table.  Otherwise, we were actually 13th on the waiting list.

I was a good girl and was able to take pictures of the menu while waiting for our order. :)

Very good menu with complete choices from appetizer, vegetables, soup, main course, desserts and drinks.

For appetizer, we ordered Chorizo Dinamitas with garlic dip.  This was labeled as one of their best sellers so I got interested.  It's deep fried jalapeno wrapped in lumpia wrapper with chorizo and cheese.  It's really good because usually, other restaurants would only put cheese with jalapeno but the chorizo made a great difference.  Very tasty and not too hot or spicy =)

Next, my Mom ordered Beef Kare-kare.  My Mom cooks one of the best Kare-kare in town.  So to like this would really mean that it's really good.  At first we thought that the serving was small but we were wrong because it had lots of meat.  This is another yummy dish from Kuya J. =)

Lastly, the sinful Crispy Pata :p.  It's nice that they cut it for us when they served.  I'm usually not that crazy about pork, aside from not being healthy, I heard really bad stories on why we should not eat pork.  Anyways, I still eat pork but if there's a choice, I would usually order beef, chicke or fish.  Anyways, back to the Crispy pata, this one was another delicious treat.  Other crispy pata that I have tasted were just crispy and not tasty so you will usually rely on the sauce.  But this one, it's really tasty even without the sauce.  The skin was crispy and the meat was also really tender.  Another thumbs up for this.

I can really say that Kuya J serves very good Filipino dishes.  I recommend you try this specially if you're craving for Filipino food.  I can't wait to go back and try their other dishes =)

Locavore - Filipino Food Concept, Kapitolyo Pasig

Prior visiting this new restaurant, I checked a few reviews about this place.  There were feedbacks that they had to wait for an hour or so to get a table so it was recommended to make a reservation before going to this restaurant.

Since I am not a girl's scout (to be always ready :P), I didn't call to check and make any reservation.
We arrived in Locavore at around past 5pm.  Luckily, we got a table right away and didn't have to wait. :)

For the appetizer, it was my choice to order the Streetfood Platter just because I like the idea of being able to eat fish balls, squid balls, kikiam and qwek qwek in a restaurant and make "tusok tusok" in a "sosyal" way (lol).  It came with 3 kinds of sauce -  first was the spicy vinegar, second was sweet and sour sauce but it was also spicy and third one was the sweet sauce.   I am not sure if the fish ball, squid balls and kikiams were specially made by the chefs but the taste was just the same from the ones we buy from groceries or from the streets.  So if you are really after great food, I wouldn't recommend this.
But if you are after the experience, go ahead and order this specially if you miss it like I do :)

Streetfood Platter - P200.00

For our main entree, we ordered Sizzling Sinigang.  The dish was like roast beef with gravy with the "asim" flavor of sinigang.  Imagine that.  It did not disappoint! Yum! :)  The beef was very tender.  The vegetables were crisply cooked.  I love the gravy sauce with just the right hint of sinigang flavor. My only concern though was that it was not literally sizzling when it was served to us.  But, I would still recommend that your try this dish because it was really delicious :)

Sizzling Sinigang - P530.00

For dessert, we ordered Torta Manga.  I'm not sure if I liked this dessert.  First taste wasn't that great.  On second taste, my reaction was, "Oh this is delicious".  On the next bites, it seems too sweet or just right.  I guess you'll get the perfect taste of this dessert when you scooped the right balance of mango, "yema" like caramel filling and cake crust. :)

Torta Manga - P240.00

It was already past 7:30pm when we finished our dinner.  I was surprised that there was already a long line outside.  It was only then that I realized that "so this is the latest craze pala talaga" hehe.
So if you want to try this new restaurant and don't want to wait in line, have early dinner like we did :)

Enjoy! :)

Locavore, Kapitolyo Pasig
Brixton Technology Center, 10 Brixton Street, Kapitolyo, Pasig City
It's in the street at the corner of Ace Water Spa Building.  Just go straight ahead until you see the restaurant at the right side of the street.