Cuisine of Manila for gourmets. Places for dinner - best restaurants

Among the upscale establishments of the city the Café Bola restaurant is best worth noticing. Its culinary experts and chef create most wanted and most ordered dishes of Philippine cuisine following the ancient recipes. Travelers visiting the restaurant for the first time are highly recommended to try chef’s specialities of sea foods as well as spiced rice. The Café Bola restaurant will also impress the visitors with its amazing interior decoration. Its hall will be a perfect place for any scale event or banquet.

Those looking for solitude and quieter ambience are advised to visit the Pepato restaurant. Its spacious hall can comfortably host a large company of friends. The speciality of the eating house is considered to be unique Parma starter. It is a plate of mixed frozen fruit pieces wrapped in the thinnest slices of parma ham. Among main courses carbonara pasta is in the focus of gourmands. Dainty fruit desserts and refreshing ice tea will be a perfect addition of the meal.

Genuine Spanish dishes are served in the Gaudi restaurant. The heart of the menu is sea foods. The most wanted treat among regular visitors of the eating house is paella. Meat dishes gourmands will easily find a proper treat as the menu of the restaurant offers speciality Morcilla sausages. Copyright www.orangesmile.com

Visitors of Sala restaurant will appreciate contemporary European cuisine dishes. The most delicious treats among restaurant chef specialities are risotto, mushroom pie and beef hot pot. The interior of the Sala restaurant is also worth mentioning. Its cozy and light hall is always decorated with natural flowers. To enjoy a cup of aroma coffee and recreate after exhaustive city tours one can visit the Dome café. Apart from drinks and snacks there is a good selection of dishes on the menu. Mornings the café is visited mostly by hot pastry fans meanwhile during the day the café visitors are offered a vast choice of salads, pizzas, sandwiches and sweet treats. Evenings in the café feature chef’s specialities.

To embrace all the flavors and tastes of the ethnic cuisine of the Philippine Islands one should visit The Aristocrat restaurant. The genuine gourmands will discover on the menu of the house rather rare ethnic dishes the technologies of which are known only to expert chefs. One of such dishes is the Sinigang soup as well as tempura roasted pork Pata. The wine list of the restaurant is rich and offers a huge selection of drinks being a perfect complement to any dish.

Manila is a great place to taste the traditional cuisine of the Philippine Islands. You will find here a lot of interesting dishes with poultry meat, the most common is a hearty soup "tinola". In addition to pieces of chicken, it is necessary to add young papaya, ginger and moringa leaves to the soup, which gives the dish special flavours.

Rice noodles also continue to be an indispensable component of many common dishes, it is added to the everyday dish "Pancit bihon". There are dozens of ways to cook this common dish, it can be prepared with different types of meat, chicken or chicken liver, as well as various types of fish and other seafood. Rice noodles are simply fried in a large pan with meat or fish, and finely chopped vegetables and beans. Skilled chefs in Manila restaurants prepare such a dish within several minutes, it has an excellent taste.

Vegetarians will be pleasantly surprised in local restaurants, they can try special dishes made of vegetables. The most unusual among them is the eggplant salad "Ensaladang talong". Eggplant for this salad is cooked on the grill, then finely chopped and mixed with tomatoes and onions. Vinegar is used as a dressing for the salad, you can also try more original versions of this salad in some restaurants in Manila. It can consist of unusual components such as salted duck eggs.

One of the most exotic dishes is considered to be a salad "Kinilaw" with seafood, it is made from fresh fish. Ginger, coconut milk, acute chilli pepper, and also spicy grass and the best oil are added to the salad. This original salad in local restaurants is usually served as an aperitif before the main dishes.

Talking about fish dishes, you should pay your attention to "Daing na bangus". It is prepared from a special type of fish hanos, also known as milkfish, it is caught only in a few places on the planet. Before cooking, the fish is marinated for a while, then fried in a pan and served with a side dish of rice or pickled papaya. This original dish is a common breakfast option here. Most desserts in Manila restaurants are made with fresh fruit, and you can also try interesting types of pastries here.