Verdure Italian Restaurant — Restaurant in Baliwag

If you're looking for authentic Italian cuisine, steer clear of this place! Despite advertising itself as an Italian restaurant, the food here is anything but.

The dishes lack flavor, proper seasoning, and any semblance of authenticity. How do you even mess up a Margherita pizza? Yet, they managed to.

The experience was equally disappointing. The restaurant was completely empty, with dimmed lights that they turned on when we arrived—hardly a welcoming atmosphere. We thought they were closed! It was uncomfortably hot, and to top it off, mosquitoes were buzzing around. Not exactly the ambiance you'd expect when paying premium prices.

The soup, which was supposed to come with focaccia bread, arrived without it and the server didn't even know it was supposed to be served with it. The only dish remotely worth trying was the pork ribs, but even that couldn't save the meal. Overall, the food was overpriced, underwhelming, and far from Italian. Save your money and your taste buds—this place is...

Went here for a birthday celebration on a weekday.

They gave complimentary focaccia bread and slice of cake for the celebrant.

We ordered the ff:

• Grilled Pumpkin Soup (3.5/5 ⭐️) Texture is alright. Could use a little more flavor as I find it a little bland.

• Chicken Parmigiana (3.5 / 5⭐️) Your typical chicken parm. You can also choose rice or aglio olio as its partner.

• Osso Buco (5/5 ⭐️) Loved the tenderness of the beef and the flavorful sauce (a little bitin for the sauce, should have asked for extra lol)

• Baked Pork Ribs (5/5 ⭐️) Melt in your mouth goodness and flavorful!

• Pepperoni Pizza (5/5 ⭐️) Thin Crust. Star of the show if you love simple pizzas!

As for the staff, they are attentive and nice but it’s kind of noticeable that they are running all over the place.

Overall, it was a good experience and we might...

It was the worst experience I've had. Pasta uncooked and not seasoned, seafood dish had scales in the sauce causing our guest to almost vomit.

Starter was supposed to be brushetta, but what arrived was cheese toast.

5 different dishes were ordered, but only 3 meals were different on service.

Pineapple juice was from a del monte can. For the price paid, why can't it be fresh?

When we asked the staff why the quality was so low their answer was the chef had left. We asked to speak to the manager but he had left, same with the supervisor.

Ok so who cooked the food. "Anyone who's left here".

Thankfully we did not have to pay for the main course we could not eat. So thank you to the young man who helped...