Archive for the ‘Bars’ Category

Weekend getaway to Subic Bay (Olongapo)

Monday, March 15th, 2010

This past weekend we decided to get outside of the traffic and make our way to the beaches of Subic Bay and Olongapo. We arrived there and stayed 1 night in Subic Park Hotel (link), it was ok, but a little bit too quiet for our taste. We ate at Daddy Eds restaurant, it’s open 24 hours/day which is nice and it’s good food to have right there on the beach.

The following day, Saturday, we transferred to the Blue Rock Resort (link) and we liked this area MUCH better, the Blue Rock Hotel and Resort has great food open 24hrs/day and at night they have a live band that is very pleasant, really soothing style of band, almost like a karaoke band that is just very good, not loud. There is a floating bar, great to go during the day, you can eat, drink ice cold beers, and go jetskiing and swimming all right there at Blue Rock!

We even took a nice day trip over to White Rock Resort (link), they have 2 wave pools, and waterslides, and also on the beach, it was nice as the sun went down, the sunset picture I have there is from White Rock Resort beach area.

And if you love tacos then I suggest eating the biggest taco in the world, there at Coffee Shop Tacos (link) they have MASSIVE tacos!!!!

Some pics from our trip:

Howzat Sports Bar

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

Howzat Sports Bar
Open Daily til 2am
Website: http://www.howzat.ph
Call: (02) 897-3335
Address: 8471 Kalayaan Ave., Poblacion, Makati City, Philippines

Howzat Sports Bar is a great sports bar in Makati near the nightlife mecca Burgos St., it’s walking distance. it’s a nice place with lots of tv’s with the top sports events on, great foods and lots of great beer specials, and drink specials, depending on the days and times. They are open til 2am but food orders stop at 1:30am. They have a billiards table in the back room in case you want to show off your pool shark skills. This place is a great place for your first stop on a night out, to have a few beers and dinner then hit the clubs.

The Menu: Their menu consists of the type of food you’d most likely expect at a sports bar, burger baskets, tons of great appetizers and fried foods, along with a lot of filipino dishes too
What I Ate: I had the tacos with french fries, I must say, these tacos were VERY meaty, and very delicious! I couldn’t finish all my food there was too much, yay! We had some pancit bihon too, and it was the biggest portion of pancit I’ve ever gotten, it was also very good.
The Staff: Perfect English and very friendly
The Bathroom:

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Extras: Have FREE wifi available

Harbor View Restaurant

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

Harbor View Restaurant
Open Daily 11:00am to 12:00am midnight every day
Website: http://www.harborview-manila.com
Call: 02-524-1532
Address: South Gate A, Rizal Park, Manila, Philippines

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Harbor View Restaurant is a wonderful seafood restaurant and grill restaurant located near baywalk, with a great veiw of Manila Bay Sunset, Harbor, and Roxas Blvd. Shoreline. The food is great and the atmosphere is the best you can find for an evening out with friends, wife, girlfriend, or family. Harbor View is famous, and you’ll see when you first walk in a ton of pictures of famous actors, athletes, presidents both foreign and local.

The Menu: They have lots of filipino and international foods, and specializing in seafoods and charcoal grilled entrees. They have a wonderful choice of foods. Some of their famous dishes are Sugpo Sa Taba Ng Talangka, king prawns cooked in crab roe, Nilasing Na Hipon, deep fried drunken shrimps, Steamed Lapu-lapu, live grouper steamed Chinese style, Live Crab cooked with spices, and many more
What I Ate: I had the tuna gyoza, they were big and pretty good. My main entree was the grilled salmon and it was probably the best grilled pink salmon I’ve ever had in Manila, I’ll definately order it again!
The Staff: A+ for friendliness
The Bathroom: The CR here is very nice, big, and clean

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Bedrock Bar and Grill

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

Bedrock
Open Daily 6pm – 3/4pm (depending if customers or not)
Website: NA
Call: (632) 522 – 7278
Address: 1782 M. Adriatico St., Malate Manila, Philippines (The address on my credit card receipt says Cart Noodle Restaurant 546 Remedios Street Malate, Manila

Bedrock Bar and Grill Malate, Manila is a great place to go hangout on any night of the week. They have live bands every night playing lots of the new hits of today, drinking some San Migs, eating some sisig and peanuts while chilling with your friends, it’s a great time!

The Menu: They have tons of bar foods, french fries, and mostly filipino dishes like sisig, pancit, and many more
What I Ate: I always eat their sizzling pork sisig, and it’s delicious, I love it! Oh, and always with ice cold buckets of San Mig Light
The Staff: The staff at Bedrock Bar, is always really great with us, very friendly, light your cigarettes, but lots of time they’ll hope/expect a tip at the end of the night
The Bathroom: The comfort room at Bedrock is kind of dirty, they have bathroom attendants waiting for you to give you mini bathroom massages and give you warm towels too, don’t take any of that unless you willing to dish out a little tip, I usually do, since I’m a fan of the CR-massages haha

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Duck Inn Bar & Hotel

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

Duck Inn Bar and Hotel
Open 24hrs
website: http://www.duckinnmanila.com
Call: (632) 523-3995
Address: 1207 M.H. Del Pilar Street, Ermita, Metro Manila, Philippines

The Duck Inn Hotel was established in 2002 by Australians David Thomson and Douglas Green. It features polished wooden floors, a Western sports bar , restaurant with billiard tables and multiple channels of satellite sports and news, all is open 24 hours/day everyday. The hotels reception bar and restaurant is situated on the ground floor with the accommodation on the 1st and 2nd floors. The 13 rooms are all equipped with queen size bed, cable TV, air conditioning, mini bar and safety vault. The rooms are all very cheap, at only 1300 – 1600 php per night.

Location:I actually like this location, it’s right across the street from the Hobbit House (a famous restaurant/bar with all little midgets working as waitresses), and it’s in the heart of Malate, lots of 7-11’s, bars, Korean and Japanese restaurants, and tons of little sorry-sorry shops.
Facilities: Duck Inn has some decent accommodations, with Queen size beds, cable TV, safety deposit box, air conditioning, and free wifi internet in every room
The Staff: The staff was fun and friendly, we had great conversation and a few laughs
The Room: The room was not bad, the tv was up high in the air on a stand and the bed was decent, BUT there were tons of cockroaches
Extras: Free wifi internet in the rooms
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Negatives: My room had tons of cockroaches, I watched as 1 of them went onto my toothbrush :(


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

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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