Yelp 100 Challenge 2018 - #36/100 The Alavar name/brand has been around for quite sometime. I have fond memories of spending time with my family eating their signature dish curacha (spanner crab) with Alavar sauce. Curacha is a type of crab but its meat tastes like lobster. Those were good times. Fast forward 15 something years and I had the opportunity to go back to my birthplace and visit one of my most loved places. Sad to say I was underwhelmed. The Alavar sauce that I was craving was overly sweet now. We ordered a seafood platter and felt that the grilled cuttlefish/squid wasn't fresh as it was emanating a strong fishy odor so we notified the server, they offered to replace the offending squid, not the whole platter. Mind you everything was touching each other on the platter. I couldn't eat anything off of that platter so I just ate the pancit (noodles) that we ordered as well. Parking is limited and the restroom? For a "higher scale restaurant" it sure needs a lot of revamping is all I'm going to say. Service wasn't bad, wasn't good either. read more

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For some tasty saucy Seafood , The Curacha crab is awesome. Got to go there every time I'm in Zamboanga

Good food. Famous for serving famous Zamboanga dishes. Try their curacha. Will visit again soon.