The family had a big dinner here a few years ago and that was my first time at the Granary, which…read moreis located in the Richmonde hotel. I'll be honest, that dinner with the family was quite nice but I can't really point to anything memorable, other than I liked the table settings and presentation of the food. We were a party of 40?? And they were prepared. But in staying eight (8) nights at the Richmonde for a vacation to visit family, I'm so glad we opted to pay extra for the buffet breakfast. I know, I know - Anthony Bourdain states that we should grab a meal far away from the hotel, but I actually liked it here. If you're not seated in the main dining area, by the kitchen, you'll be seated in the bar area. That's what I call the Business Class section. You may have to walk a little farther for your food, but it's not as busy and you can have a quiet conversation. As for the food, I really loved the omelettes which are made to order - I usually just asked for everything. There is a wide variety of breads, rolls, cakes (calorie counting??, not anymore), jams, cereals, there's just a ton of carb choices. My favorite was the Champorado - which is a chocolate rice porridge. Yes, this was a childhood memory in a bowl, topped with condensed milk. For protein, there was a lot of that too - longanisa sausages, beef tapa, and pork Tocino. There was a lot of fresh fruit too, and unlimited bacon. One warning, the coffee was not strong enough so have the hot chocolate instead. It was a pleasure to come here every morning and I had extra family members join me and they don't charge it to your room, so bring your credit card with you.

We opted to add breakfast as part of our hotel booking. They have an extensive menu both Filipino…read moreand western food. The service is great, they remove our dirty dishes right away. The size of this place is not too big nor too small but I think for the amount of their clientele they could use a bigger space.

Food was good give it a 6 out of 10. Service was decent. Open restaurant so you do get the…read moreoutdoor temperature and animals.

Amazing seafood cooked at your own preference..grilled, sizzling, fried, steamed or served as a…read moresoup sinigang. You pay for the meat/seafood then they will cook it for you. Interior is mostly indigenous. Wooden tables and chairs. Imagine a big old tree sliced like bread, that's sort of how it was shaped and made into use as tables ;-) Staff are friendly especially if they remember you as a good tipper. Price is mediocre. Cheap for foreigners/baligbayans! Steamed oysters is like $2 for a bucket, not a piece of this exotic delicacy. There is food for meat lovers and vegetarians. Not sure about vegans. Anyways, it's always a good idea to ask. No reservations needed. Come anytime, and come as you are Beer, fresh fruit shakes and water is served for refreshments. Loved the grilled or sinigang na blue marlin or tanigue! Cash or credit card is accepted. Come with a heavy appetite. Bon Appetit!

This place is called Breakthrough Restaurant ( @breakthroughiloilo ), because their seafood breaks…read morethrough the ocean, into my bellayyy! I'll see myself out now! LOL The Breakthrough Restaurants, are a very long-running seafood institution, in the Iloilo City metro area, of the Philippines. My family had been going here, since I was a baby and, it's been tradition, to go at least once, whenever we visit! The seafood is always fresh and top notch, the service is so kind and helpful and.....you're views are literally oceanside! It's the best way, to enjoy a meal! Hope you go check them out! #BreakthroughRestaurants #IloiloCity #seafoodexperts #oceansideviews #familytradition #familyfavorite #vacationmode #supportlocal Instagram: @NelzLovesIt

Best tasting restaurant in ILOILO CITY philipines…read more!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ¡!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! .........

Great service yummy food traditional to Iloilo. Just love it. Stopped by for lunch & what a great…read morehomecoming for me. Brought backed fond memories of my childhood. Ordered Crispy Pata, Kare-Kare, Fresh Vegetarian Lumpia, Ube Sago (Boba). Crispy Pata is pork leg with skin & bones boiled till tender & deep fried, crispy, so tasty. Be careful of bones tough on your teeth. Kare-Kare is beef stew with peanut sauce, thick & creamy with Pechay, like Bokchoy. Fresh Vegetable Lumpia is veggies wrapped in crepe like wrapper & rolled. Lumpia is not fried a healthy option. It comes with tasty sauce. Ube sago is more like Ube ice cream shake with Boba tapioca pearls. Ube is purple yam, Also good as a dessert drink. It's so rich, creamy & delicious. Nice ending to a great meal. Needless to say I rolled out of the restaurant with leftovers for my next meal in tow. The restaurant is in Robinson shopping mall with parking available. Free WiFi is available. This is my family's favorite traditional ilongo restaurant. Anyone visiting Iloilo must come & try this restaurant.

Another place for authentic Filipino staple favorites and Visayan food as well. They have several…read moresavory fried chicken,crispy pasta, Kare-kare, pinakbet, apan -apan (Visayan sauteed kangkong--a vegetable side dish). They serve tons of refreshing juices like Kalamansi juice, mango juice, fresh coconut juice. They also have special menu that's good for a party of 4 posted all around for a fixed price-all good for sharing. Just ask what portions best suits your party. The crispy pata is very good that has some crunchy skin and that perfect umami saltiness. This is located in the province of Iloilo where my in-laws are from. A very nice, upscale resto and oh, you can bring your own liquor and drink there even if it's a black label. They allow it and will even provide ice if you like that. It's a trendy place, clean, wonderful staff. I liked this place and all the foods we had. If you know your Filipino food like i do? I highly recommend this for a nice special dinner. This is a good place.

Great food and ambiance! Free wifi, no minimum amount needed to avail the internet connection…read more It was my first time to visit the cafe. Who better to ask about the house specialty, but the owner herself, Aradelle . Suggested the fried and rolled lasagna...yes! Very interesting way of serving...delicious! Finished the whole plate! Also had the cafe latte. It's ok. I like my drink to be super sweet! It's kind of pricy for the pasta lasagna but its worth every cent. Overflowing meat sauce and melted cheese. Surprised to bite bacon, rolled in the pasta They also serve all day breakfast, cakes and sandwiches. The location is inside a building complex. Got lost the first time. Interior is inspired by nature and for beach lovers. Dine in a surf board‍ Haven't tried the cakes or homemade ice cream. I'm pretty sure to come back!

Unfortunately, my experience here was quite disappointing. The customer service was poor and staff…read moreclearly lack training in basic hospitality. The level of service felt more appropriate for a casual turo-turo stall in a public market than a proper dining establishment -- food was served with little care or presentation, and there was no sense of professionalism in how customers were attended to. Management would do well to invest in proper customer service training if they hope to meet the standards expected of a sit-down restaurant

Legendary food landmark in Iloilo. Great ambiance,awesome seafood and native lechon manok together…read morewith awesome company,perfect dinner! Would always visit if in the area.

There's this one dude here who finds pleasure in leaving one or two star reviews on all…read morerestaurants/ establishments in Iloilo, even the ones outside iloilo(but in the PH). I love Azul and I have been to a lot of restaurants in his country as well where most of the food i have tried are bland or boring. There is nothing two star about this resto. I have enjoyed all the dishes I have ordered from here including the lengua, the chimichurri chicken, steak, spinach dip and their pastas. They have coffees, cocktails and mocktails too but I haven't tried them yet. Service is quite slow during the weekends but always very friendly. Prices are a bit steep compared to other restaurants in Iloilo but I would say, everything's worth it. Ambiance is classy.. modern contemporary. One of my fave restos, for sure.

Not 3 stars at all! At best 2.5 stars, we take pity!…read more As is standard in the Philippines, a cousin of Salt downtown on Gen'l Luna in Iloilo, Azul is pretentious and highly over-rated already. Consequently, I will apply developed-country standards to this review. The upsides? The interior decor is very tasteful, with a distinguished-looking front plate glass window looking out onto the circle green that's only a black empty spot at night. Upstairs past a painted wall mural is twice as much seating as downstairs. The recorded music thankfully is not muzak, but varied from light jazz to uptempo techno. And the lowered volume fit in well with the overall ambiance. The bathroom smelled fresh and was fairly clean even though men had better not wash your face, because your shirt-tail is the only hope of getting it dry. Hmmm, now it gets hard... Downsides? A lot. Parking is horrid, but then so is Salt. Hard to get it right in a poorly- planned city, eh? Looking out into the night toward the traffic circle should add to the vibe, but little class with lots of pretence in the country means the middle of it is only a dark spot hiding all kinds of potential. The meal. Man, but they sure can't get it right, diba? Although it just opened, surely they could hire an experience lead waiter to quickly train the less skilled staff. No way... As for product knowledge, our waiter didn't know how to describe the entrees, and so he had to go back and forth to the kitchen 5x in order to tell us what was hamburger under a fancy name, and what cut of meat was used for a couple of other meat dishes. He described the pricey rib-eye steak as 1/2 inch thick, and, like Salt, is almost impossible to sear and cook without it being well-done. Skip it! Patrons cannot order just a glass of decent house red or white, and so must buy a whole bottle untasted. I ordered their tenderloin chunks in white wine sauce, but it came out of the kitchen long before the salad. Because parts of it were quite chewy, I'd have to say it was not tenderloin (filet mignon) at all, but tenderer cuts of top sirloin, New York strip loin. Hmmm... Accompanied by a tasty cream sauce, its sparse fried-garlic gravy was quite tasty, except it was under a thick layer of distasteful grease and oil. Definitely not okay. But at least the meal's presentation was okay, and thankfully hot! We had ordered their mixed fruit salad on romaine: large enough, it was fresh and tasted good. But it came out of the kitchen 5-10 minutes after my tenderloin. Duh! My wife ordered their beef short ribs. The ribs had hardly any meat - 4 small pieces! - and only one short bone, but was packed with fat, too much oil, and only a little passable-tasting gravy on the bottom, all of which was barely warm. We ate fast before the gravy and fat congealed into an ugly mess. The accompanying mashed potatoes were cold (!), as was the one cherry potato and the one golden mushroom. Presentation was poor, but serving it cold?! This is barely a 2.5 star operation. I bumped it up to 3 stars only because it just opened. We won't ever go back. But then we've become used to inferior dining experiences in the Philippines. Gotta go to Manila to get close to developed country standards. We do not recommend this pretender!

This particular resto joined in for the food festival tonight part of the celebrations for the…read morenext 2 days. This happens every year around the same time. Anyway, the way this is set-up is like the public market, only you pick the restaurant that represents and order whatever you like. Tonight's specialty is everything grilled: pork that was marinated several ways of either sweet, the other might be sweet and tangy, same with the chicken, fresh seafoods that are lightly seasoned with just salt then straight to grilling, and last but not the least- roasted pig chopped in big mouthful pieces to enjoy. You may order beers and other cold soda pops once your food arrives after they are cooked. Every customer is assigned a table with number and they determine your orders by this number. Everything grilled as we all know are very yummy. This is an outdoor activity food eating. It means tables and chairs are lined up across the blocked roads that stretches up to at least 3 blocks of what we know it in the US. It is super fun bcs there are several Live bands line-up to entertain all while you eat and drink.

Yes, recommend ko gid ni siya. Nami man food nila, would like though if they had more ice cream…read moreflavors kay chocolate and strawberry lang ang available pero other from that goods naman. I went here last night for my birthday and very accomodating naman sila. Nami sang service. The servers were really nice. I called beforehand to reserve sana pero it's only walk-ins. The atmosphere/ambiance is depende man sa tap pero sa akon is okay man.

This place is about 3 minutes away from SM city, but because of Iloilo traffic, it could take as…read morelong as 20 frikkin minutes. They don't take reservations so if you have a big party coming, then you better come early to secure seats. This place is popular mainly because of their unlimited korean BBQ but they also have a lot of other dishes to choose from - sushi, several filipino dishes, chinese dishes and desserts. For around 600php per person, I'd say it's a really good deal. The place is clean, service is good but a little bit slow. We don't have a lot of buffet places in Iloilo . There's vikings in sm city but i prefer this one because it's less expensive and they have KBBQ - a must for carnivores like me!

One of the best bachoy in town. Conveniently located in the Atria district. You can also order puto…read moreto go along with your bachoy. I like this place because it's clean and not too crowded.

This is an iconic place and restaurant. The specialty is the authentic la paz batchoy…read more It is off the beaten path located inside La Paz public market. The batchoy is a beef broth with thick yellow ramen noodles, thin slices of beef nd some slices of liver topped with crushed pork cracklings. Very tasty and savory soup. If you like it's served with "puto" a steamed rice cake.