Archive for November, 2009

Filling Station Burgos

Sunday, November 8th, 2009

Filling Station Bar Burgos Street
Good food, drinks and music, billiards pool hall
Open Daily 24hours/day
Website: http://royalbellagio.com/resto.html
Call: (02) 897-2053 or 899-5555
Address: 5012 P Burgos St. Poblacion Makati City, Philippines

The Filling Station is a nice Maidrite-style restaurant, it’s old fashioned like a diner, with lots of old rock n roll pictures on the wall, and some fake old telephones and gas station things. The food is great, my favorite are their french toast for breakfast, and their mini tacos, my friend (a filipina) says her absolute favorite sinigang is from FS. Also you can play some billiards, or watch the action on Burgos street from upstairs window if you’re sitting in the booths. And I love how when you’re eating, if anything you need, more sauces, or if you want the check, just push a button and they come give you service, brilliant!!!!

The Menu: The Filling Station menu is amazing, they have everything from delicious pizza’s, to cheeseburgers, soups, sandwiches of all kinds, pasta, grilled fishes, tons of filipino dishes and even a TON of desserts! They have just about everything you can think of!
What I Ate: I was there today, I ordered the french toast which was VERY good, and also I had the corned beef hash with sunny-side-up eggs and toast, all was very good.
The Staff: They are nice, friendly, wearing some cute little gas station style uniforms, and sometimes on weekends the girl waitresses will do a cool little dance near your table
The Bathroom: They comfort room here is decent, very small, but is always stocked with tissue and toilet paper

Conclusion:

Extras: They have pool tables in the back, and also they are connected to the nice theme hotel the Royal Bellagio Hotel and also to The Bronx Disco Bar (open LATE til 7am). Also they have happy hour from 2-7pm every day of the week, it is 50% OFF on selected drinks

City Garden Hotel Makati

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

City Garden Hotel Makati
Open 24hrs
website: http://www.citygardenhotels.com
Call: (632) 899-1111
Address: Makati cor. Kalayaan Avenues, Makati City

City Garden Hotel is 1 of the best value hotels I’ve ever experienced in the Manila Luzon area. With all the facilities, restaurant, gym, rooftop bar and swimming pool (has a jacuzzi inside the pool) and great views of Manila city from the gym/swimming pool. We even have a small sauna and a spa here. Great value hotel! Room prices from $64 to $92 per night.

Location: Located in the heart of Makati’s nightlife district, Burgos Street is right around the corner, a 1 minute walk from the entrance of City Garden, lots of 24 hour restaurants, go go bars aka gentlemens clubs, 1 nightclub, lots of 7/11 and laundry shops, internet cafes and many pizza places nearby too, Dominos, Pizza Hut etc. Very good location!
Facilities: Nice gym, swimming pool, jacuzzi, whirlpool, sauna and restaurant
The Staff: The staff here has always been super friendly, wishing me happy birthday wishes, hooking me up with free internet cards (shhhh secret!!).
The Room: I stay in the deluxe room, costs $74usd/night. My room consists of a half kitchen, water boiler with complimentary bottled water, coffee, tea, has a couch, an older but decent size tv. The bed is nice size and very comfortable. I even have a small couch and 2 desks. The bathrooms have a tub/shower, good counter space too, gotta love that
Extras: Sometimes you can get a 1 hour free internet card, and if you’re nice maybe they’ll hook you up with a free 24/hr internet card :)

Tip: When you walk outside City Garden take a left go towards Burgos Street and there is a little laundry place there called “Lets Talk Dirty” laundry and cleaning services, I paid only 180 pesos for 2.8 kilos of laundry, can save you like 5x’s compared to paying the hotel laundry prices. Just a tip for you
Negatives: The internet here is VERY bad, sometimes you can go hours with it being fine, but then you get logged off for hours at a time, either the network goes down, or their 3rd party internet company is having issues.
Also, today I had to wait for 30 minutes in the gym, til somebody could assist me, I need a locker key, towel, and to turn on the sauna. I hate to talk about the negatives but I want to give a great unbiased review, I will cover the goods AND the bads

Welcome to Got Manila!!!

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

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