Aljosh Café’s Angus Burger Steak: Montevista Walk Park, Naga City

Aljosh Café’s Angus Burger Steak 
Montevista Walk Park, Naga City 

Weekend dining in Naga is becoming difficult
as it takes time to find a vacant parking space in
most of the city’s popular dining destinations.

 

The good thing is, Aljosh Café at the Montevista Walk Park
located at ALDP/Puregold Mall is an awesome weekend dining
alternative as the parking is aplenty and the food is delicious.

 

We have dined several times in this restaurant
after the last time I featured it my my blog,

 

…and have tried almost everything in their menu,



…including their rice toppings,

 

 

…and  most of them were delicious  and I decided
not to blog about them as I would sound redundant.

 

 

What lately caught my fancy were the burger steak
dishes in which  they have two delicious variants.

 

First was the Regular Burger Steak that had two pieces
of moderately sized beef patties, bathed in a savory and
creamy mushroom sauce. I found the beef patty rather
rubbery but otherwise, it tasted very good. It was served
with buttered vegetable and a generous mound of rice.
This is one of the best value for money meals in the city.

 

Just as I thought that the regular burger steak was very delicious,
until they served the second variant; the Angus Burger Steak.  
It a had a huge and thick slab of juicy angus beef patty. It was firm
but very tender and succulent. The awesome beefy flavor and
aroma linger in your senses for so long. So far, one of the best and
most affordable angus beef dishes anywhere else in the province. 



Aljosh Café  is an unassuming culinary gem
where the parking is aplenty, while the food
is delicious and definitely budget friendly.

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Pizza Hut’s New Dishes: Extra Goodness, More Choices

Pizza Hut’s New Dishes 
Extra Goodness, More Choices  

It was a pleasant surprise when we dined at 
Pizza Hut in SM City Naga to find out
that they have new dishes being offered. 

 

Mango Shrimp Salad is an old item in the menu
but we never fail to order as it is our favorite salad.
The crisp Romaine lettuce was topped with plump
garlic shrimps, strips of ripe mangoes, tomatoes and
bathed with a creamy mango dressing. The resulting
sweetish- tangy and delightfully garlicky taste when
mixed was exquisitely refreshing and very delicious. 

 

Meat Lovers Paella was one of the new dishes that we tried.
This Spanish inspired saffron rice was sautéed with an all meat
ingredient that includes sausages, pepperoni, ham and various
tasty cold cuts. It’s a delicious crust- less pizza set in rice, an all
time Pinoy favorite staple food. It is a rice lover’s dream pizza

 

Another new dish was the Buffalo Chicken Wings.
This extremely delicious chicken dish was perfectly
fried and tossed in tangy buffalo style spicy sauce,
and available in mild, medium and burnin’ hot. Ours
was that of the mild degree and tasted really great.

 

The Cajun Fish with Flavored Rice was third
new dish that we ordered. The succulent breaded
fish fillet was fried to crispy perfection and served
with creamy garlic dip and tasty flavored rice.

 

No dinner is complete for young kids without 
Fried Chicken with Spaghetti, and no one
does this popular combi- meal better than Pizza Hut.

 

My wife ordered a Solo Hawaiian Pizza 
all for herself as it is her favorite pizza,

 

…while everyone else feasted and enjoyed the  
Bacon Supreme with Sausage Stuffed Crust Pizza.

 

 

We ended our dinner sumptuous with their
delightful desserts like Mud Pie Sundae, 

 

… Jello Sundae,

 

…and yet another new item in

their menu Pizza Hut Halo Halo,

 

…which I previously
blogged on this LINK. 

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Gilligan’s Restaurant: Unlimited Pinoy Favorites

Gilligan’s Restaurant 
Unlimited Pinoy Favorites 

 It has been while since we dined at Giligan’s. 

 

…and we had another chance to do so
when we visited SM city Naga to shop. 



Giligan’s is a popular Manila based maritime themed
restaurant and when they opened their very first branch
in Bicol, it became an instant hit among Bicolanos.

 

We came for a really late lunch at 3 PM
and we were too hungry to browse the menu
so we ordered a group meal that costs and
unbelievable bargain price of 883 pesos,

 

…and came with free iced tea for four persons, and
unlimited servings of rice for an additional 40 pesos.

 

We love the Sinigang Na Bangus Belly as it is
one of the few sour soup versionsin the city that
had the right degree of sourness the you could sip
without wrinkling your face in acerbic revulsion.
The milkfish was tasty and the veggies were fresh.

 

 

The Lechon Kawali, Cebu Style was a revelation.
We never thought that this common pork dish could
be so delicious. The meat was tender and juicy, and
the skin was fried to perfectly crackling perfection.
This fat laden dish is to die for, literally and figuratively.

 

With Chicken Pandan, fried chicken never smell
so good the way they do it Giligan’s. The boneless
chicken was wrapped in fragrant pandan leaves and
deep fried to deliciously tender and juicy perfection.

 

The Inihaw na Baboy was okay and nothing really
to rave about, but one thing I like with this version
is that it is not as sweet and sugary as other inihaws.

 

The delicious Pork Sisig made me upgrade our order
to unlimited rice. I used to hate sisig as I find it too
greasy, too slimy and too gross to eat. But I learned
how to appreciate this iconic Filipino dish later in life.
The grease and the slimy cartilage that is crunchy to bite
blends perfectly with the tangy and mayonaissy sauce
made piping hot by the hot plate where it was served.

 

We ended our dinner with their varied
delightful desserts of Buko Pandan, 

 

….the delicious Mango Crepes, 

 

…and the heavenly creamy Leche Flan.



Gilligan’s Restaurant at SM City Naga

offers deliciousbudget meals of unlimited
choices Pinoy Favorite dishes, that goes with
unlimited rice, for those with limited budget. 

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Classic Savory: Classic Feast, Classic Chinese Dishes

Classic Savory
Classic Feast, Classic Chinese Dishes 

Classic Savory brings a lot of good memories

to most Filipinos as it was a popular restaurant

way before the giant fast food chains took over

and invaded the Philippine culinary landscape.

 

When it opened its first branch in Bicol in 2013,

it immediately became a favorite place to dine

to most Bicolanos as it still serves some of the

most delicious, all time favorite Chinese dishes,

the way they do for the last four or five decades.

 

We ordered Corn and Crab Soup, and it

was a very delicious way to start a dinner.

 

What followed next was a sumptuous feast of

classic Chinese dishes that stood the test of time

and brought me back to the days of my youth.

 

The Yang Chow Rice was very delicious and

could be eaten as a dish of its own. This all- time

favorite delectable fried rice was cooked with

eggs, bits and pieces of carrots, spiced with garlic

and onions and having the flavorful aftertaste

coming from slices of aromatic Chinese sausage.

 

The is only one word to describe the popular

Classic Savory’s Lumpia Shanghai - savory.

It was so tasty and reeking with a flavorful

spices and delightfully rich umami aftertaste,

The Sweet and Sour Fish was very delicious.

Tender pieces of breaded fish fillet, bathed with

a tangy- sweetish sauce and spiked with just the

exact sourness of vinegar mildy spiced with chili.

We loved the Lechon Chop Suey was a unique

fusion dish. What was supposed to be a healthy

stir fried, fresh and crispy assorted veggies was

sinfully topped with chunky pieces of roasted pig.

It was ab odd but surprisingly delicious combination.

 

Of course, dining in this restaurant is never complete

without the tasty and juicy Savory Fried Chicken.

this fired chicken is the reason of Classic Savory’s

longevity that makes people coming back for  more.

While we were dining, the crew inquired if we have

a SM Advantage Card and when we said yes, they

served us a free Steamed Fish Fillet.  The steamed

tender fish fillet with a sesame- like aftertaste sprinkled

with bits and pieces fried garlic and was served lying

in a bed of deliciously slimy sotanghon noodles.

We also feasted on numerous Chinese

desserts from the sweet and chewy Buchi,

 

…one of the most delicious Turon

that we have ever tasted in the city,

… and our all time favorite Black Gulaman.

Classic Savory recently opened another branch

in Legazpi City and the move would bring this

revered restaurant to more Bicolanos in the region.

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