The Tagaytay trip with the Dumaguete contingent took a whole day, and upon our arrival in Manila, we decided to have dinner at the Giligan's restaurant at Greenbelt 1 (curbside along Legaspi Street). While the interiors seem to have seen better days (the air-conditioning wasn't working well), the food was still hot and delicious. I like this restaurant for having set family meals at very reasonable levels (we took the P4,000 package for a group of 10 pax).
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| Interiors play on the pirate ship theme, their take on the TV series Giligan's Island |
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| Fried fish strips with tartar sauce |
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| Grilled Squid |
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| Lumpia Shanghai |
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| Chicken in garlic sauce |
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| Sinigang--this time with pork cubes |
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| Pork loin in mushroom gravy |
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| Their specialy, seafood fricasse |
Turnover at these restaurants is pretty fast, diners finish up in 45 minutes, and new customers queue up every few minutes. We were there on a Monday night, and the place was 75% full, and a big group like us (22 pax) had to wait for around 10 minutes in order for the staff to work out the logistics for the table layout and properly set up the tables. The buzz among patrons is probably because of the restaurant's pricing policy--very reasonable especially for big groups. Also, we got to the restaurant at 7pm, which was just right after happy hour and several big groups were just finishing up with their beers to give way for us. I was told that on Friday and Saturday nights, the place turns into a bar by 9pm, and drinking goes on all the way till the wee hours of the morning.
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