Review Best Posts in Thread: ANDYS GOLDEN Grill

Living here for a number of years, after working in the US, Europe, and Asia, and enjoying some very nice restaurants, I have adjusted to the restaurants here. I find Casablanca, Why Not, and PastaKing all very acceptable and satisfying. For lunch, bar food here is pretty good and the fish and chips at Katz’s.
We are not living in Paris so it is what it is. We have some good home cooked meals with products from Belcris. You can even find a decent bottle of wine here, if you know where to go. Bon appetit.

 

Not suggesting that I'd been anywhere in Dumaguete with great steaks. Truth is I am not a big steak guy; once a month is plenty for me. And I don't need Ruths Chris quality; fact is I've never eaten at Ruths Chris.

As I said the steak in question was good (not great) but fairly expensive. Sometimes decent and cheap is better that good but expensive. Now had it been great that might have been a different story.

Again, I kinda liked the restaurant, the service and the food was good. The question is can I get my financial manager to approve a meal expenditure that's 2-3 times what we'd normally spend.

 

Andys Golden Grill is one of my absolute favourites here in Dumaguete!
He is a very good chef and he is creating some very nice and goodtasting meals.
A very good place for relaxing, meeting friends and enjoy the distinguished meals.

 

We had the opportunity to visit Andy Grill so here are our comments.

Parking we found a little difficult as was wet, muddy and the street is very narrow, we were able to park over from the resto as not busy.
The resto is kinda open air and welcoming, semi native how ever one does bounce if people walking by as a bamboo floor.

We were welcomed by Andy and his wife which was nice. After chatting to Andy he recommended an Italian wine at P800, he said he imports it and has almost no mark up. Further explained the resto is a hobby as he does not need the money, nice.

The wine was correctly chilled and served, although less dry than expected. We order first the vege soup which came in just a few minutes. Tasty and absoloutly no complaints, nice gesture was Andy reappeared and asked how it was, also complimented us on the slow relaxed way we dined. All good.

Next came the shrimps alio con also, again tasty and enjoyable although there was a hint they perhaps could of been frozen just a tad to long. Finishing with the apple pie we would agree with a previous poster the crust was a little floury and for our taste perhaps a clove or some cinnamon could of added a little extra zing.

Again Andy came and chatted, he asked if he could join us and sat. We listened to him for about 30 minutes before extracting ourselves which did not exactly enhance the evening although he was just trying to be very friendly.

My partner took a picture of the wine bottle as she often does if enjoyed.

As a side note we asked if it was available at all in our regular wine shop here in Bacolod, yes was the reply P330.

Would we return probably not, we shared our dishes, spent almost P1500 and feel this money could be spent on similar food with a slightly improved ambience and privacy.

 

We were at Robinsons Mall a bit late last night. First time we’ve been out after dark in months. Decided that we needed to checkout Andy’s Golden Grill, located just a few kilometers away. Found it quickly on Google Maps, but, in real life, it’s closer to the National Highway than Google Maps showed.

Andy came over to the table upon our arrival to greet us and explain the newest menu addition, which is a 7 day red wine marinated beef coupled with Swiss style noodles (spaetzle).

Ordered vegetable soup, the beef special, ostrich Madagascar for the wife, apple pie and vanilla ice cream.

The vegetable soup tasted exactly like homemade potato soup, except there was no evidence of potatoes. It was just a cream soup, but very tasty. I enjoyed it a lot, but the wife said it was just okay for her.

The marinated beef was mixed with various vegetables and came with homemade spaetzle. It was quite tasty.

The ostrich Madagascar was cooked to perfection. Juicy and tender, it was a joy to eat! The fusilli noodles that came with it were nothing special.

The wife ordered a glass of Italian white wine, while I went with the red. The glasses were nice quality and unexpected.

The portion of vanilla ice cream portion was quite small. Ended up with one spoonful to each of us. Kind of disappointing.

Apple pie filling was pretty good, but the crust wasn’t quite cooked, so tasted ‘floury’. The wife enjoyed the filling though.

Service was perfect. Seating was perfunctory, yet pleasant. Parking was no problem whatsoever. Bill was 1,485p, so not for the faint hearted.

Overall, this is one of the best restaurant meals I’ve had in my 18 years of visiting / living in the Philippines. Of course that includes Cebu, Davao, Manila, Makati, etc…

 

Dumaguete, Andy's Golden Grill
Hope this helps Jim

 

I'm sure we have different tastes Bruce. For me, there isn't a very fine restaurant in the Philippines, but I've only been here about 5 dozen times and lived here on and off for 18 years. There is a very fine French restaurant in Hanoi, plus some great Chinese restaurants in Hong Kong and even fantastic Singaporean restaurants in Singapore. That being said, I don't come to the Philippines for the food.

I don't believe there is any restaurant in this country deserving of a Michelin star... :(

 

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dont get me wrong .............if any of the chefs/cooks were worth their salt they wouldnt be in dgte unless they were owners

IMHO too many restaurants here try to be something they are not or never will be. cooking Thai/Korean/Chinese/Italian with chefs who have never been out side Dumaguete and charging prices that drive away customers, and with the lazy always say die attitude of the staff

there isnt a single retuarant here that punches above its weight

 

Yes went there and met another D I member last week , I had spare ribs with mashed potatoes and veg 70 p per 100 gram our friends Angus steak was 270 per 100g all the food was very good and well presented .My account was 750p for my ribs and my partners chicken plus 3 beers and a soft drink, over what we normally pay cheers