Pinoy Fiesta Restaurant — Restaurant in Western Australia

After reading some negative fake reviews, I am so sad to read it and embarrassed as a fellow Filipino-Australian. I came from a family of chef, and I am a great cook as well, I am just so busy I prefer to go to Filipino restaurants when I miss my mum's cooking. Pinoy Fiesta, is an unforgettable experience. I ordered Paksiw na Bangus or simmered Milk Fish in vinegar and ginger. I felt so nostalgic. It was so authentic and fresh. As I was digging in for the fish and the tasty vinegar sauce, I was surprised to see banana leaves and pork pieces, it suddenly brought me back to my childhood years in my Inang's kitchen in the country. Even my sister who don't eat Paksiw fish, and my nephew who was born in Australia had some. It was so delicious. The chef was so kind to cook something for me even it was not in the menu. We also had Palabok, it is the best Palabok I have ever had in Perth. It is not fishy at all. The balance of real slices of fried and crispy pork, and real smoke fish and shrimp complimented the creamy sauce, plus Kalamansi slices was so generous and highlighted the noodles, we loved it. Everything was served fresh and portion sizes were generous. My family keeps coming back here for years now. The husband and wife are such admirable hard working couple, cooking all these delicious dishes and making me and family as if we were back home in the Philippines. We will surely come back and we will recommend them to our younger family to learn about Filipino food and culture of great hospitality and so proud to have this wonderful restaurant in Perth, making us feel like HOME in the Philippines. Mabuhay...

When we first got in, it looked alright and nothing special but we did get greeted politely. Then we sat down to eat. we got some cutlery and my fork had a nasty bit of crusty rice flattened out and wedged inside my fork, the rice was also super crunchy and dry like its been there forever as well. When we saw the food for the buffet, 75% of it looked inedible. The cabbage looked so bad i was tempted to walk out and the sago was mushy and uncomfortably warm. With all that nasty food it was also colder than regulation temperatures, the pork skewers tasted ok but they were way too salty and chewy, when i was biting it off the skewer, the bamboo skewer broke and almost gave me a splinter on my tongue. Also, instead of taking constructive criticism from other bad reviews and making their buffet better and giving it a complete overhaul, instead they sit there writing back to them and trying to prove that they are better. Ive already seen enough bad reviews about the buffet so instead writing something back to this review, how about you fix your buffet or remove it because after eating i felt like i was going to get sick. And don't even get me started on the bone soup, it smelt alright but it was sour and way too salty. Just admit it, your buffet doesn't get much attention from you guys which makes it a bad part of your place. Im pretty sure i could see a near five star review if you didn't have your buffet. don't write back to this...

We are recently into philipino food and had tried some great ones in different place, so we decided to give this one a try. We had buffet dinner tonight. Unfortunately I must say we were all disappointed.

There were very limited options for a buffet. Out of those very limited options there were plain rice/ plain Noodle and very plain looking fried rice, which had made the remaining choices even less. Food were cold. Son found a dry rice stuck in his fork that was newly taken from the cuttery tray. The only soup option was rather salty although it smelt quite nice. We did read google review before we came but food was no where near the photos shown on the review.

I can't really comment much on the environment, I can only say it's not my style and would be good if the light was a bit brighter. There were barely any customers at dinner time (6:30-7:30pm) for a Saturday. Service was reasonable though.

On our way out, we found out that little plate of cold food costs us $44 per person...definitely not worth it

After the meal, we went back to read those bad reviews and found majority of bad reviews matched our experience and were mostly for the buffet. Freshly cooked meals seemed to get better review. Perhaps owner should focus on what they do better and expertise in them, rather than serving cold buffet and drag...