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Fish be with you: Must-try seafood restaurants this Holy Week
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Every year, during summer, Catholic Filipinos observe the Holy Week, a religious holiday in which people usually take a break from their routine chores, spend time with their families, and strengthen their faith. Some of the traditional ways to celebrate Holy Week include abstaining from eating meat, joining the Via Crucis, and completing the Visita Iglesia.
To help people who are planning to do any of these three activities, "Pop Talk" looked for three seafood restaurants situated near popular churches. Check out host Tonipet Gaba, celebrity reviewer Antoinette Taus, daddy foodie Benjie Manicad, and Chef Jackie Laudico's "Pop Talk" reviews.
Aling Tonya's Seafood Restaurant, Ihaw-ihaw at Palutuan
Seaside Seafood and Wet Market, Baclaran, Parañaque
Price range: P80 to P600
The taste of a seafood dish depends largely on the freshness of its ingredients. At Aling Tonya's Seafood Restaurant, Ihaw-ihaw at Palutuan, you don't have to worry about the seafood’s freshness. All the fish, crabs, and shrimps used in their dishes come directly from Baclaran Market, which is just a floor below the resto.
Most of Aling Tonya' s customers are people who have just gone to the National Shrine of Mother of Perpetual Help, one of the biggest churches in the country and is more popularly known as the Baclaran Church. The restaurant is approximately just 30 steps away from the area. Some of the dishes you can enjoy at Aling Tonya's include the adobong pusit, butter garlic tahong, butter garlic prawns and more.
Restaurateur Jackie Laudico thought that having a dining place near a market is very convenient. "Very fresh kasi bagong palengke lang natin pero parang pare-pareho 'yung taste profile," she said. "Pare-parehong ma-sauce at masyadong matamis ang lahat ng sauces, butter, 'yung margarine. So medyo nao-overpower niya 'yung freshness ng seafood."
However, Chef Jackie also thought that eating at Aling Tonya is a great deal. "Talagang what we ordered, what we had for less than P3000, it's good for like eight people or 10 people."
Antoinette, who came back to the Philippines just recently, loved Aling Tonya's adobong pusit as well as the overall restaurant experience. "The thing about places like that para sa akin, parang adventure eh. Feel na feel mo talaga 'yung pagka-seafood ng kinakain mo," she said.
Final verdict: 8 pop points
Zamboanga Restaurant
Adriatico St., Malate, Manila
P300 to P600
The taste of Zamboanga seafood is just a three-minute walk away from Malate Church. Zamboanga Restaurant may have been around since 1973, but it hasn't lost its signature Filipino touch – be it with the fresh Zamboanga seafood they offer or the regular cultural shows they present.
Zamboanga Restaurant's seafood menu is composed of the Zamboanga Bounty of the Sea, a dish made of different kinds of seafood, steamed lapu-lapu, chop suey, spicy crab, millennium prawns, and seafood kare-kare.
The food and the ambience of the restaurant is so good that Antoinette promised to recommend it to other foreigners. "They really really really exude the whole being 'Proud to be Pinoy,'” said Antoinette. “Super everything about the Philippines pati 'yung entertainment, even the decor, the food, everything. Ire-recommend ko 'to sa mga tourists."
"The quality is good, the cooking is very distinct," commented Chef Jackie. "'Yung kare-kare, gusto ko 'yung presentation. 'Yung steamed fish na nasa steamboat pa s'ya. The millennia is very good, cooked right. Ang laki-laki ng spicy crab."
"Enjoy ka na sa food, enjoy ka pa sa pinapanood mo. Talagang sariling atin," Benjie added.
Final verdict: 9 pop points
La Travieza Seafood Restaurant
Circumferential Road, San Jose, Antipolo City
Ala Carte (P60 to P400), Buffet (P279 on weekdays, P299 on weekends)
Located near Our Lady of Peace and Good Voyage Shrine in Antipolo, La Travieza Seafood Restaurant was originally an ancestral home that was converted into a dining establishment. This resto serves seafood dishes using fresh and all natural ingredients, which means their food doesn't contain MSG and other kinds of preservatives.
Kilawin, sweet chili shrimp, crab with creamy herbs and butter, fishball, and sinigang na salmon are just some of the dishes available either at the buffet table or à la carte.
"It's a buffet so marami siyang variety. Okay naman yung iba-ibang presentations. Very distinctive naman kada fish. Medyo creative," observed Chef Jackie.
"It's really very affordable. Good value for money,” she added. “Dadalhin mo 'yung family mo this coming Holy Week so talagang pwedeng pwede kahit isang malaking table kayo, hindi pa rin masakit sa bulsa masyado."
Fiinal verdict: 8 pop points
— Lara Gonzales/CM, GMA News
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Every year, during summer, Catholic Filipinos observe the Holy Week, a religious holiday in which people usually take a break from their routine chores, spend time with their families, and strengthen their faith. Some of the traditional ways to celebrate Holy Week include abstaining from eating meat, joining the Via Crucis, and completing the Visita Iglesia.
To help people who are planning to do any of these three activities, "Pop Talk" looked for three seafood restaurants situated near popular churches. Check out host Tonipet Gaba, celebrity reviewer Antoinette Taus, daddy foodie Benjie Manicad, and Chef Jackie Laudico's "Pop Talk" reviews.
Aling Tonya's Seafood Restaurant, Ihaw-ihaw at Palutuan
Seaside Seafood and Wet Market, Baclaran, Parañaque
Price range: P80 to P600
The taste of a seafood dish depends largely on the freshness of its ingredients. At Aling Tonya's Seafood Restaurant, Ihaw-ihaw at Palutuan, you don't have to worry about the seafood’s freshness. All the fish, crabs, and shrimps used in their dishes come directly from Baclaran Market, which is just a floor below the resto.
Most of Aling Tonya' s customers are people who have just gone to the National Shrine of Mother of Perpetual Help, one of the biggest churches in the country and is more popularly known as the Baclaran Church. The restaurant is approximately just 30 steps away from the area. Some of the dishes you can enjoy at Aling Tonya's include the adobong pusit, butter garlic tahong, butter garlic prawns and more.
Restaurateur Jackie Laudico thought that having a dining place near a market is very convenient. "Very fresh kasi bagong palengke lang natin pero parang pare-pareho 'yung taste profile," she said. "Pare-parehong ma-sauce at masyadong matamis ang lahat ng sauces, butter, 'yung margarine. So medyo nao-overpower niya 'yung freshness ng seafood."
However, Chef Jackie also thought that eating at Aling Tonya is a great deal. "Talagang what we ordered, what we had for less than P3000, it's good for like eight people or 10 people."
Antoinette, who came back to the Philippines just recently, loved Aling Tonya's adobong pusit as well as the overall restaurant experience. "The thing about places like that para sa akin, parang adventure eh. Feel na feel mo talaga 'yung pagka-seafood ng kinakain mo," she said.
Final verdict: 8 pop points
Zamboanga Restaurant
Adriatico St., Malate, Manila
P300 to P600
The taste of Zamboanga seafood is just a three-minute walk away from Malate Church. Zamboanga Restaurant may have been around since 1973, but it hasn't lost its signature Filipino touch – be it with the fresh Zamboanga seafood they offer or the regular cultural shows they present.
Zamboanga Restaurant's seafood menu is composed of the Zamboanga Bounty of the Sea, a dish made of different kinds of seafood, steamed lapu-lapu, chop suey, spicy crab, millennium prawns, and seafood kare-kare.
The food and the ambience of the restaurant is so good that Antoinette promised to recommend it to other foreigners. "They really really really exude the whole being 'Proud to be Pinoy,'” said Antoinette. “Super everything about the Philippines pati 'yung entertainment, even the decor, the food, everything. Ire-recommend ko 'to sa mga tourists."
"The quality is good, the cooking is very distinct," commented Chef Jackie. "'Yung kare-kare, gusto ko 'yung presentation. 'Yung steamed fish na nasa steamboat pa s'ya. The millennia is very good, cooked right. Ang laki-laki ng spicy crab."
"Enjoy ka na sa food, enjoy ka pa sa pinapanood mo. Talagang sariling atin," Benjie added.
Final verdict: 9 pop points
La Travieza Seafood Restaurant
Circumferential Road, San Jose, Antipolo City
Ala Carte (P60 to P400), Buffet (P279 on weekdays, P299 on weekends)
Located near Our Lady of Peace and Good Voyage Shrine in Antipolo, La Travieza Seafood Restaurant was originally an ancestral home that was converted into a dining establishment. This resto serves seafood dishes using fresh and all natural ingredients, which means their food doesn't contain MSG and other kinds of preservatives.
Kilawin, sweet chili shrimp, crab with creamy herbs and butter, fishball, and sinigang na salmon are just some of the dishes available either at the buffet table or à la carte.
"It's a buffet so marami siyang variety. Okay naman yung iba-ibang presentations. Very distinctive naman kada fish. Medyo creative," observed Chef Jackie.
"It's really very affordable. Good value for money,” she added. “Dadalhin mo 'yung family mo this coming Holy Week so talagang pwedeng pwede kahit isang malaking table kayo, hindi pa rin masakit sa bulsa masyado."
Fiinal verdict: 8 pop points
— Lara Gonzales/CM, GMA News
Looking for more foodie finds? Check out other “Pop Talk” reviews:
Pop Talk review: Busog in Boracay
REVIEW: A food trip down memory lane with 'Pop Talk'
Make your own food: 'Pop Talk' reviews three D.I.Y. restaurants
