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!

If you want to wait like 45 min to eat then this is your place, they not even busy but very slow,…read morenot again coming back.

Nice place and Tasty foods. Love the way they cook native chicken.I can't try their seafood though…read moresince it's forbidden but mostly say they have a tasty seafoods in the city.

While visiting my hometown Iloilo City, Philippines, I needed to set up a meeting for 12 people…read more Found this nice restaurant with meeting rooms. The meeting room was good for 3 hours with the required food purchase. It worked out very well and the food was very good. The next night hubby & I decided to go back to try their Dimsum. We picked the Dimsum Platter & the Brisket Noodle Soup. All dishes tasted amazing, fresh & just the right amount of food. Service was brisk & the wait was not long. I highly recommend Spring Place & I will be back.

The majority of the Chinese restaurants here are owned by folks from Fujian province and their…read morestyle of cooking is different from my favorite Chinese restaurants back home. For example, you won't find egg foo young on the menu. And they don't have egg rolls made with peanut butter. I guess you can say it's more authentic. This is my second time at Spring Palace and because of the size of our party, we've always been given a large, Private room. My relatives like it, the food was fine overall and most of these dishes are very new to me. I guess the spinach soup was my favorite item. The deep fried shrimp with fruit salad was weird but it's crunchy sweetness was fine by me. I also very much enjoyed the steamed Grouper (lapu-lapu), the meat is so soft and sweet.

You know, family members who are often in Korea for vacation, really enjoy coming here for their…read moreauthenticity. Also, several of Gerry T's buddies during high school were, you guessed it - Korean. So I ate more Kim chi, bulgogi, home made mandoo, chapchae, all those weird soups and the stuff fermenting in jars. So I say all that to say that I have above average experience with Korean food. So this is a solid 4 stars, they keep the ban Chan coming and the fluffy omelet is very soft. The seafood soup is boiling hot and plentiful. The bi/bim/bop with bulgogi in a bowl (veggies with beef) with somewhat of a poached egg is so comforting. This was my go-to during college, not cup of noodles. Finally, The seafood pancake, what can I say but Cam Sam Nida (thank you)!! That is excellent, along with the grilled pork with garlic. There's a nice view of the river and there seems to be a lot of people at lunch time, here at Kang Byeon.

We'd like to give this food a 3 or 4 star rating, but after returning to check it out again,…read moredowngraded to a 2! The locals don't seem to know good Koreano food, but after living in other parts of Asia and North America, it's just not good at all. The 4 pre-meal appetizers were fewer than normal (6-7), but were okay. Their homemade kimchi was good enough although on the hot side, and the Korean egg slices were just passable. From then the rest drops off a cliff win their garlic peanuts, tiny deep-fried fish, and sweet potato chunks. Not that good. First time ordered dolsot bibimbap and spicy squid with glass noodles: we were quite satisfied with overall flavour, quantity, and the price was more or less right compared to other Koreano restaurants. Downsides... 1. The bibimbap. This good mostly-veggie dish can either be served cold or hot, but the thick pot this meal was placed in could scorch our skin 15 minutes after it was served. When we told the owner, she tried to explain it away in broken English rather than simply apologize and tell us she'll adjust the temperature, so that it doesn't continue to scald the contents and my fingers until my hunger finally emptied it. 2. The spoiled little children running around the place or screaming for 15 minutes without being corrected. It's a large open room, and certainly not suited to that. 3. The building is somewhat dumpy, but the river flows quietly beside the back of the restaurant. Looking out onto the wide back patio, it's easy to see that it would be well suited to having about 5 or 6 sizable 4-6 seater tables outside but it was a dirty mess back there. When it is daytime, it must be unsightly to the backwall tables. But it has potential, and would be an upgrade to this venue. Oh well... Second time we ordered fried dumplings and what looked like and tasted like jap chae with glass noodles but came with another name. Downsides... 1. the dumplings were overcooked and bathed in so much oil that afterwards our stomaches felt slightly uncomfortable. Age and quality of the oil, or just too much? 2. the 'jap chae' was a small portion, greasy and short on veggies, but tasted okay. 3. at least no noisy kids running around this time. We've been spoiled by much better Korean fare in other parts of Asia and Canada, and therefore have a standard to compare this to. But it's only on a par with 'overcook it before it revives' Kogi & Vegi and the other poor venues in Iloilo. Chodam seems the best but it too is inferior. Kang Byun. The Koreana owner smiles welcome quite enthusiatically, but by what the kitchen is putting out, she's no cook nor is she supervising, because the over-cooked greasy food is typical of poorly-trained unshepherded filipinos. Situated in the somewhat gloomy marginally-serviceable spartan student dorm-inn Riverside Hotel, and this place and the food is well-suited to that assessment. We do not recommend this place unless you are okay with what is stated here. Go to Chodam for slightly better Korean, or run over quickly to Troi Oi for excellent Vietnamese soups, stews and other delicious dishes. But forget this place!

The ambiance from the OG Breakthrough, to this location is so different! This location is next to…read moreSM City Mall, so you get a different vibe and more office folks. The tables are also a lot closer together. The food is still good and the service is attentive, per the price point. They are still famous for their seafood selections, especially their cheesy baked oysters. Yummy!

No wait when we came in around 7 pm on a Monday for party of 6. Complimentary chips in the…read morebeginning Ordered the following: Green mango shake - i was told "habal" mango will be served. Which means it's between raw green mango and ripe mango. I asked for half the usual sugar/syrup and it turned out perfect Ripe Mango shake Buko juice Buko shake Baked scallops Grilled Sibingan (Blue Marlin) Aligue Rice Chopsuey Sizzling Kansi - very tender meat and of course, I love the bone split in half with the bone marrow exposed. The sauce on it was good too. Grilled lechon belly - just ok Fish and chips (had 2 good dipping sauce, but the fish was just ok. With all the food we ordered, nothing stood out except the Aligue rice and sizzling kansi. Food: 4 star (Nothing stood out) Ambiance: 4 star (temperature was comfortable Cleanliness: restroom is clean, smells good, with toilet paper and soap with running water, whole restaurant is also clean Service: 4 star

How can anyone classify this place as an Italian restaurant?!…read more It is not! It's a fairly standard filipino place with a variety of pinoy dishes that are not outstanding or worth returning for. Mostly empty when we got there, it's likely out-paced by equally distasteful venues like nearby Tatoy's, But'ot Balat, and Breakthrough. But you get my point if you've been to the others. This place hasn't an Italian feature or true menu item that remotely resembles Italian cuisine, or even cheap pasta or pizza. Oh yes, the two dishes we ordered were unremarkable and easily forgotten (as you can see), but not bad, and never worth returning to. The service crew hovered around the staff island noisily talking and laughing as if there were no patrons in sight. No one came over to refill our water glasses or to see if the meal was good. Forget this place unless you have cash to throw around and want to see if there are any surprises...

From the owner: Seven Fishes by Coco Veranda is a restaurant, conveniently located along Diversion Road in Iloilo…read moreCity, that offers a wide variety of seafood dishes with Filipino and Asian influences as well as Filipino comfort food.

I hate to be so brutal on a first go-around, but this 'Thai' restaurant chain with many branches in…read moreManila, one in Cebu, and one here, could be at least 3 stars, but... Overcooking, again! Gross overcooking! The shrimp appeared to be old to start with, not fresh. And then they cooked the nutrients and texture out of it, with mixed seafood sauce all curdled, and next to tasteless, and you get the picture. Unless you think you are eating safe food - but it's not much like food after the kitchen's finished with it! - just don't go here. As you can see, part of my ongoing frustration is the over-cooking issue in most of the country. And paying good money - 200-300p/dish - over and over again is just too frustrating, a waste of time and money! A 12 year-old child would do a better job under supervision. Details? The red curry fish dish had an uncurdled sauce but the fish batter covered a small pulpy fish mess (whew!), the lumpia was good but overdone, and the mixed seafood stir-fry with horribly curdled 'sauce' had old-looking limp shrimp, soft tasteless squid, and whatever else kind of thrown together in this curdled mess that ... oh, yes, did I say curdled beyond recognition. The bottled plum sauce for the lumpia tasted good, and the garlic aftertaste was real and quite okay, but brushed my teeth quickly after getting home. We didn't drink the water as it and the ice were only filtered and could render us helpless with lbm over night. Presentation was good because we didn't spot the curds at first. Gotta hurry and finish this review. Told the young 'manager' about it, but it seems hopeless as in general they're managers in name only, with little power to change things. We considered refusing to pay for this glop, but we also know that most owners stiff their staff to pay for the bill! Do we protest too much? Not at all. Took hard work in our careers to afford this mess. For shame, owners, for shame! Our young server was playing with his cellphone when we were ready to order: when we got the attention of the cashier, she spoke to him after which he dropped his texting/surfing/chatting, and came over. Ah well, never return, and not ever recommend this place...! Too bad this kind of thing is normal in this country... Instead, see if the other 4 Thai restaurants along Diversion between Plazuela and Sambag are any better: Peppy, Sukhumvit, Siam and Nam Prik? It's quite possible that they will be as bad as this pretender in SM City, where almost every other resto seems happy keep them company!