For this Food Adventure, the Gulay Gang goes to Waterside Restobar in Solaire Resort & Casino in Pasay.

It was my first time to visit Solaire or Waterside and I have absolutely no expectations. Aside from the idea that it's going to be expensive. Very expensive.

We went here to Waterside Restobar to celebrate my cousin Toni's Graduation from Medical School.
Absolutely proud of her. She's smart, pretty and saves lives. ^_^

Here's the restaurant's menu. Told you it's expensive. There are too many zeroes. 

Waterfront has a bar with a huge selection of drinks. I don't have a copy of the drinks menu so I can only guess. Maybe each drink costs at least 300 per shot. Maybe.

Sea Platter: Grilled Prawns, salmon, squid, mussels and lapu-lapu P3,250

Land Platter: Oyster Blade, Pork black ribs, half chicken and liempo P2,380

Mango Drink - Can't find it on the menu so goodluck with the price

My drink, Raspberry Fizz: raspberry puree, club soda and gingerale. I have no idea how much this is! XD

One of the free Co-stars (sides) of the Sea Platter, Mango salad: Green and yellow mango, cucumber, a little bit of onion, mayo and cilantro.

Sisig: Sizzled pigs head, chili, fried egg & rice P350

Best part of the meal was the Salmon in the Sea Platter. It's the platter with all the seafood. The grilled salmon was soft, pink, fresh, and absolutely delicious. I tried salmon in another restaurant before, and it was soo awful that I swore I'm never going to try salmon again. Check out which restaurant here. But this time, I was glad to try it. Fresh salmon is always the best way to go. And it went really well with the hollandaise sauce.

Each platter comes with co-stars or sides. It's recommended to get rice but try to get at least 1 of the mango sides. It was weird to read out the ingredients: green and yellow mango with onion and cucumber, topped with mayo and cilantro. But it was good!

I also really liked my order of the Raspberry Fizz. You have to make sure you mix it up first, because the raspberry puree is all at the bottom and very tart if you drink it as it is served. After mixing, the bright pink raspberry gets dissolved and becomes a lighter pink. This is the point when the drink tastes perfect. Very much like, more please. hahaha

There were around 10 people on our table and we each ordered a drink, as well as shared the food platters. The total amount came up to more than 10k. Imagine that. I think I'd rather go for a buffet at Vikings instead.

Their ambience is amazing and the service is top notch. It's basically what you're really paying for in this type of restaurant. I'd love to come back to Waterfront just for the salmon, but unless I'm ready to spend 4,000 pesos in a meal, I don't think that is anytime soon.

Pros:
Great food (Yey for the Salmon!)
Ambience
Service

Cons:
Price

Overall: Great but comes at a steep price

Waterside Restobar

G/F Sky Tower,
Solaire Resort & Casino,
Aseana Drive
Manila Bay Reclamation Area, Pasay

Gulay Gang: +Ana Carla Pagulayan +Carmelita Pagulayan and family
Visited: April 6, 2016

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Last night, we went to try out the fare at Texas Roadhouse Grill in Shangri la East Wing.

I wasn't expecting much, but by the amount of people at the place, one would assume that the food was good. 

I had a 500 peso voucher from Deal Grocer for this restaurant, so we had to limit the orders to something less than a thousand. 

We chose 2 dishes:

Cheesy Pork Steak - P410

Loaded Texas Nachos - P 310

The ambiance was pretty good. It reminds me of Outback Steakhouse and PUBliko. Wooden tables and chairs, and the walls were littered with cowboys/western style decorations.
The servers were really nice, and gave us a bowl of peanuts while we were waiting for our food.

The first thing to arrive were the nachos.
The nachos were crisp, cheese was still warm, and bacon was crispy. It was pretty delicious.
I kept eating the nachos and the cheese and was quite happy with it, until I tried it with the SOUR CREAM.
Here's the disappointing part, the sour cream was already bitter and it had this awful smell to it.
I asked our server to have it checked, and the manager came out to say it was the normal taste of a sour cream sauce. I wanted to ask him to try it himself, but they already took it. -_-
Anyway, they replaced it with ranch dressing, and it was okay.

Next was the cheesy pork steak.
I was looking forward to that one since I was quite famished.
It was supposed to be my first decent meal of the day.
We had the serving split into two since the portions were quite big.
I was happy when I saw that cheese melted on top of the porkchop, with fresh veggies on the side.
But then I smelled it. It smelled awful. I was like
"is the pork they're using old??
Double u tee efff.!!!"
I tried drowning it in ranch dressing. It helped a bit. The taste was so so , nothing too notable.
I can make a better pork chop at home. -_-

When the server asked how our food was, I told her that the pork was smelly.
She explained that they were using Swiss cheese, and some kind of herb (I forgot the name of the herb though). She asked if the taste was fine, I said it was oh kaay.
So my sister tried to separate the cheese from the pork. And it was obvious. It really was the cheese that made it smelly. I hope they just used regular cheese, coz the smell just made me lose my appetite.

Total Bill: P 802 for 2 pax
Only paid 302 - Deal Grocer voucher value was P 500.

Good points:
The servers were nice, and attentive
The portions were big
The nachos were fantastic

Bad points:
The place smells of paint, because there's a nearby construction (a shop was being built within the mall)
The peanuts were hard (I prefer the peanuts soft)
The sour cream they served was bad
The swiss cheese they added on the pork was smelly as hell
The price of the food was not worth it

Final Score: Nope!
I'm never going back here again.

Thanks for reading!