Tapella @ Greenbelt 5 - Worst Restaurant in Manila

Manila - We hankered for something different and came across this spanish restaurant @ Greenbelt 5. Walking into the restaurant gave me an impression that it's a classy and the food is good but on the contrary - it took so long to serve the 1st dish.

Pasta con Chorizo

The pasta was nice and soft and was tossed nicely with the flavoured blended well.

Cod Fish

This was the most pathetic dish of cod fish in tomato sauce. Then we have to wait and wait for our next dish...plus the service is really bad. If you check TripAdvisor, many people had complaint about this restaurant - our bad not to have checked the review.

I looked around and saw that the 2 tables had bread and we did not and I did asked sternly why we weren't given any bread. We had to ask for butter and olive oil too.

Potato and leak soup

The soup was too small to share with Lesley.

Rack of lamb

This rack of lamb was cook medium done to our requirement and it tasted good maybe due to the long waiting.

We just had enough time to have a drink at Starbucks before our movie starts - Ironman 3 - 2nd day of premiere in the Philippines.

This restaurant is not recommended due to the long waiting time, portions are small and very expensive and bad service.

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