Poprock Cafe

If you want to reunite with friends and chat over good food that is not too heavy on the stomach, Poprock Cafe is one of the places I can recommend. They offer a variety of cakes, pastas, burgers, salads and a few rice meals that would fit within your budget.

I went there last December together with my HS barkadas and it was the perfect choice for a place to dine and catch up with each other. You may find the place intimate aside from the fact that the place can only accommodate a few people.  You'd also find a few people staying there for the wifi when they're working on something and just reordering dessert as it is very affordable.

So I ordered Chicken Fettucine at Php85

and a jar of iced tea at Php25. Drinks in mason jars are already kind of a craze on restaurants here in CDO.

We had a great time catching up with each other. We also ordered a few of their cakes but I wasn't able to take a photo of it as I've put my blogger self aside to enjoy the evening.

Here's us and look at how we've grown: well how I've grown. :p I feel that I was the only one who gained weight throughout the years. They all have the same figure back in highschool.

So here's my review:

The Taste

The chicken fettucine I ate was spicy and tasted like fettucine with chicken halang-halang. The taste is not bad though. The cakes are delicious as well. I personally like the blueberry cheesecake.

Value for Money

Very affordable. Good place to dine when you're on a tight budget but still want a cozy place to hang out with friends.

Will I dine here again?

Yes if I am in the area and would want to get a light meal like cakes and pastas.

xoxo,

Lefty's Chick-N-Chops

Another favorite fastfood chain that hubby and I love is the Lefty's Chick-N-Chops located along J.R. Borja Extension. They are famously known for their extra hot buffalo wings. You can choose hot, extra hot or wild flavor for your buffalo wings.

We love the Lefty's Original in Extra hot flavor paired with super cheese dip as well as their sizzling salisbury steak with rice.

This is how the place looked like:

So here's my review:

The Taste

If you're a spicy lover, you'll love the wild flavor. 

Value for Money

The buffalo wings is quite expensive but the serving is adequate.

Will I dine here again?

Yes definitely.

xoxo,

Harbour City, Centrio

Ayala Centrio recently opened its newest fast food chain called Harbour City located at the 2nd floor just right beside Hukad.

As their slogan says "We bring Hongkong to your table", Harbour City brings its customers to a new and different way of dining. From pushing food carts around and from the clapping of each crew to get another crew's attention gives us Cagayanons an unusual dining experience. We were actually confused on how to get our order the first time. The crew who led us to our table did not quite explain that there will be pushing carts around that will be getting our order. The clapping can be annoying too at times. I've been to Hongkong though but I haven't witnessed such scenario. Maybe this is just how it is when dining in Hongkong food chains.

Their menu is limited only to a variety of dumplings (see picture below). They will not give you a separate menu immediately like those of a chinese reataurant. So better check their menu first outside before dining.

When we went there last June 27, there were a lot of people on the waiting list. Even so we didn't wait that long. Wait time was just around 5-10 minutes and there was already an available table for us. Another observation that I have here is that aside from the fast pace, you can't really stay here for long to chat with friends since there are people outside waiting for their turn to dine. I wouldn't recommend it for groupies though who would like to stay long and chat. I recommend this to people who want to dine instantly and will leave after dining.

Now for the food, Boo and I ordered their rice toppings. We were given an order sheet that lists all our orders.  The crew takes the sheet and record what you've ordered. This guy over here is the one serving the rice toppings. 

We got our drinks from another push cart.

The Siomai's are on this push cart.

Pork Siomai

Quail Egg Siomai

While you can get dumplings and spring rolls from this push cart.

Vegetable Spring Rolls

Basically the push carts just roam around to give customers their orders. You can get as many dumplings and siomai as you like. So here's us on our Harbour City moment.

In total, we paid Php450.02 for the entire meal. Not bad though. The food was just right for our hungry tummies.

So here's my review:

Value for money: 9/10

Ambiance: 8/10

Food Presentation: 8/10

Taste: 7/10

Customer Service: 6/10

xoxo,

lheyvens <3