Best Posts in Thread: Best Dining in Dumaguete City - Your Opinions Wanted!!!

The list is very personal I agree with names but I cannot make a list of what is best. My problem is that there is not a quality which is always the same, same problem with the entertainment of the staff. I am eating out more here, not occasional. I also tried to make a list but I concluded it not useful enough.

One time I found the Fillet Mingnon in Cafe Racer good, another time bad, I wondered if I ordered the same. And that happens more, even at Casablanca.

Best Filipino food Filipino's they will say Lantaw so there you are right. They come 2 hours drive to eat just there. But forget about the chaotic staff, willing but chaos. Mostly overloaded in prime time, not for nothing.

I wonder how you think we have Turkish food here, we do not have as we also do not have SHOARMA instead of shwarma. Always laughing about it. Original ..... haha never mind.

And it is also more honest to put them in their price range. Pasta King is very good but if the price is double it has to be double quality and that is not. Just what you want.

At last I read the list more seen from an American way of judgement, we Europeans have a little different taste.

But you can eat here pretty good in the area, much better than 20 years ago when we had only Why Not, Chin Loong and Jo's Chicken like that. And then the only fries were from MacDonalds.

 

Yeah, biscuits and gravy was definitely an American thing, although the "mushroom gravy" is out of the ordinary... Mostly southern, althou present in many "foodie" city breakfast menus throughout the US. The dish at Coffee Groove is very well done. Best to order two pieces...

From Wikipedia.org << "...Biscuits and gravy is a popular breakfast dish in the US, especially in the South. The dish consists of soft dough biscuits covered in either sawmill or meat gravy, made from the drippings of cooked pork sausage, white flour, milk, and often (but not always) bits of sausage, bacon, ground beef, or other meat. The gravy is often flavored with black pepper.">>

From the same article, under history: "..The meal emerged as a distinct regional dish after the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), when stocks of foodstuffs were in short supply. Breakfast was necessarily the most substantial meal of the day in the South, for a person facing a day of work on the plantations. In addition, the lack of supplies and money meant it had to be cheap.

 

Had a once-a-year gourmet steak lunch at Casablanca. Highly recommended.

 

You are right but not about the Burners, Moons food is Cooked in their Kitchens on the Batinguel Road and delivered Chilled if not frozen to the two locations, the problem to me is the lack of Microwaves, I am not a lover of microwaved food but both Moon and Sans Rival use the same system. its as you say "what it is" and yes we must persevere with the end product as I have on many occasions had Food served still Cold (Frozen even) But what can we do?

 

I'm going to agree with Dave, I have gotten very sick from eating at restaurants in Dgt several times, I will always be able to tell within one to two hours that it's coming. Full on max "on the floor in the cr" symptoms after about 4 to 6 hours.

 

I hear what you are sayin' but my personal experience (unfortunately having a digestive system that is highly susceptible to bacteria in food) agrees with the Mayo Clinic, who say: "Food poisoning symptoms, which can start within hours of eating contaminated food . . . ."

Due to my sensitive guts I can usually tell within an hour that the symptoms are coming. It is an unfortunate affliction but it has me sympathizing with Fritz and his stomach problems. I envy those with cast iron stomachs who can eat, with no ill effects, things that would put me in the hospital (been there, done that).

 

BEST Halo-Halo ever is at the Eatery beside the Play Pen at Hypermart, Has beaten every place I have tried, LOTS of FLAVOUR instead of bland Ice like the others.

 

No don't, please. This is the dang problem with us foreigners in Dumaguete. We tell all the other foreigners the great places to go and then on Saturday buffet we can't get a seat because all the other people we told got there first. Keep the really good, hidden ones, off the list. They don't need the added advertising

 

Scoop on Alima: for vegans/vegetarians, you got to try this place. The lentil soup and squash soup is awesome (about $3.00 for a big bowl). They have black rice.

I've tried the panic palabok which is made of aligue (crab fat) and it is good (for pescatarians). The Korean beef taco, their version of adobo is also good.

I work at SUMC and this place is right beside the hospital hence why I eat there so often. I highly recommend it.

 

My favorite place, quality food if you like sushi, their salad really delicious, large selection of sushi, owner and staff do a great job. Only negative, sometimes a little noisy from the highway, dependent on the time of day, many times I order in advance and bring it home. Definitely worth a visit if you like sushi