Azucarera — Restaurant in Bacolod

Terrible dining experience. Terrible service.

Ordered their overpriced and overhyped Chuleta around 640pm. Also ordered their Sopa de Ajo. Meh to say the least. More batchoy than sopa de ajo. It was diluted and devoid of any meat.

The pharma lecture ended at 8pm. The damn friend porkchop hasn't arrived yet and my seatmates were joking if whether the pork was still being slaughtered fresh from the market. After much complaining to the waitstaff and asking if it can be cancelled, the entree miraculously arrived 830pm. Lol. At that time I was hangry already. 50% hungry 50% angry. I mean I could have gone home already after the lecture but no, I had to wait for 30mins for it. Instead of eating it, I decided to bring it home.

I was hoping for something wow considering the 2 hours of delay. Instead I was given this sad looking and lackluster fried porkchop with a miniscule amount of greens and a passable serving of mashed potatoes. It tasted ordinary bordering on meh. It was bland, tasteless and lacked sauce or seasoning to round out the taste.

Compounding the infuriating and inordinate delay, this dining experience steered into negative territory.

Not recommended. Service was unforgivably slow. No apologies from the staff. Overhyped and overpriced. Better service and food choices...

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