Discover Boracay Dining, March - April 2007

Story by: Dick Molenaar,

This time, BoracaySpot, was able to assign a team of culinary experts at Boracay to report their experiences:

The team was composed of:

Ms. Nelleke

Chef of the famous, (by French authority Michelin) ** (two) star restaurant “Apicius” located at Bakkum, the Netherlands.
From the Top 100 list of the best restaurants, Apicius ranks Number 29, meaning in this competition only 28 score higher in the whole country, of the Netherlands.
Before she worked at “TOV” bistro-restaurant in Schagen in the Netherlands, what you pronounce as "tof", meaning thumbs up and a well sought specialty restaurant.

Ms. Luella

Sous-chef of the also famous Midzomernachtsdroom (Midsummer nights dream) restaurant, located at Hoorn, in the Netherlands, with a wide area of experience, to name a few, the world-famous "Zaansche Schans", located at Zaandam in the Netherlands, the" Schoorlse Heeren" located at Schoorl in the Netherlands and at the "Club Med" located at Lindeman Island, part of the Whitsunday Islands, at the great Barrier reef in Australia. At the moment invited among the Dutch Top Chefs Ron Blaauw, Cees Helder and more, all Michelin awarded executive chefs, to cook for a purpose.

We asked them to report their findings and BoracaySpot shows this, uncensored at the BoracaySpot website page about Dining:

First a remark, if any of the visited restaurants or related accommodation likes to comment, or reply, this will immediately added to the comment made.

PARADISO GRILL / ATTICA:

Italian Foods, we order pizza " Juliet" (stuffed with mango, pesto and mozzarella cheese} and a pizza" love meat" {stuffed with ham, bacon and pepperoni).

The comments: very good tasting but thin pizza crust a little to hard but full of good taste and the use of the correct Cheese is appreciated.

The comment: Inexpensive!

Note: Here I like to add, that when I was at Boracay at the Rotary District Conference, beginning of March 2007, my Group, composed of Dr. Rick and spouse Ester Zander, a Rotary volunteer, based at Bacolod City, Greg and Jacky Pensa from Califonia and Mr. Kris Kersten, we order Pizza "Napolitana" (stuffed with pepperoni, olives, capers and anchovies, topped with mozzarella cheese), grilled Bigggggg shrimps with a butter/garlic" massage" during grilling and Blue Marlin fillet from the grill. Only happy faces ! My personal comment though is, the cheap cutlery, and I was afraid to bend it, while consuming the pizza of good taste.

MANGO RAY RESORT:

We Ordered breakfast, which is offered Filipino, American and Continental.
A variety of choices is offered to extend the basic breakfast, like how you like to have your egg, what kind of fruits, your favorite fruit shake and if you prefer ham above bacon.

The comment: only that the toasted bread is stone hard.

CASA PILAR:

This restaurant was almost full with guest, and not even high season, but very comfortable and caring staff and not to forget "Cozy".
We choice a fresh Lobster, perfectly done,( only 800 grams is 2,000 pesos !!) and a perfect tasted sizzling Tenderloin Steak.

The comment: is that the ordered beer was not cold (that's why we got ice cubes in our glass!!!!!!??????).

CAFE DEL MAR:

A perfect place to lounge after having a good meal, comfortably in lazy chairs, extremely nice lounge music to give you the feeling to be at at "cloud 9".
Good serving staff too.

No comment!

HOBBIT HOUSE:

Very good Hamburgers, only the French Fries are floated in oil, but good tasting Spaghetti.

The comment: friendly serving staff and the French fries should be fried, not cooked in oil!

AUSTRALIAN STEAKHOUSE:

The ambiance is attractive and a full house with guests, only the menu card offered 5 main courses (meat) but the only one available was a T-Bone Steak.
The Capriccio floated in oil and lemon juice, so the hot meat was not recognizable, despite a little parmesan cheese and chopped garlic, disgusting�
The T Bone Steak was over cooked in stead of rare medium as requested (that's a common problem in Asia) The fried potatoes did well at least

More comment: The service is a big Zero! The main course was put on the table in between the plates of the finished entr�e's.

PAT CREEK BAR /BOMBOM:

Good lounging, including the good music at the beach And absolutely yummy Caiparinia's� without kernels.

No comments, we enjoy well.

COCOMANGAS RESORT AND SHOOTER BAR:

A very good place to dance and/or drink with good music, plenty local guests, including the white ones. You have to pick up your drinks at the bar!

JONAH' S SHAKES:

Good entertainment of Reggae music by the Reggae Man, we enjoy and luckily they play there but moving along the whole beach.

LEMON I CAF� (the Mall):

Absolute good coffee and yummy French bread with Cinnamon, Mango Yoghurt�
Very European designed as well the European Menu Card. Perfectly organized

EL TORO:

Not the first time there, but mostly good food, and a caring Staff, only at a quit part of the beach walk, we enjoy the good made Cocktails there.
The comment: Inexpensive!

CHEZ DE PARIS:

Did lunch there, a bit messy (French Style?) Impressive Menu card and we eat a tasty pizza, only the French Bread with Salami does not score at all, composed of two Thick bread, 2 slice tomato, salad and 3 ini mini my-ni slices of salami and probably sun-dried.

The comment:The fruit salad was though ok.

SUMMER PLACE BAR

We hear to go partying there, up to 04.00 am, so we did and found plenty of "whites" doing funny things, like dancing on top of the bar and ��..
Plenty of bakla's and girly's courting rich boy's

SURF SIDE RESORT AND SPA:

After all, that what was needed at least, a very good massage for one hour.
A free complementary drink and a variety of massage oils to choose from.
You are separated in an air conditioned room with candles alight.

Comment: Hospitality Staff, only expensive, but we found out you can negotiate to get up to 40% discount.

FINAL COMMENT:

Nowhere it is perfect and always place for improvement but, 14 hours flying time to reach Boracay is worth the trip to be there�� and be back!

Note: This webpage is intended to guide a big amount of the 500.000 "tourists" at Boracay Island for their stay there.

If any establishment feels offended or incorrectly described, please give your comment to info@boracayspot.com and we are happy to add this at the comments made.

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