Pino Resto Bar (Manila)

Sorry for the lack of updates! I promise this will all change when I return to Hong Kong (next week!) for my summer holiday. After all, I will be spending a vast majority of my time there eating. I've missed HK food and HK restaurants so much. Anyway, let's get straight onto the review.

Pino is a very small, hole-in-the-wall type restaurant that is not striking from the outside, even on the inside, by any means. Upon opening the menu, however, I was pleasantly surprised. The choices are not the typical fried, oily, meat-heavy dishes that you would find in most small, Filipino restaurants. Instead, they offered an array of healthy and vegetarian options.

I ended up ordering calamari to start and the pancit (a common Filipino noodle dish) with tofu. The former was average, but the pancit was delicious! The dessert here also really stood out. I had leche flan and turon (deep fried banana wrapped in spring roll paper), and oh my goodness, if I wasn't supposed to be 'eating healthy' I would be back for this over and over. Another plus? This place is really cheap for the quality offered.


Pancit with tofu.

Leche flan.


Turon.

Food: A-
Ambience/Deco: C
Service: B
Price: A

Pino Resto Bar
39 Malingap, Quezon City 1101, Philippines