Cafe Filomena — Restaurant in Dumaguete

The food is kind of hit or miss. Some of it is very good, and some it is meh. The halo halo is big and pretty good, and the viand will depend. Some of the food is also kind of small for its price, such as the siopao. Youll need to visit a few times to find out whats good and whats not. Its self service and you need to queue up and pick out and order the food you want. However some of the servers will take your order at your table if you give them a service fee. Sometimes the place isnt very clean and they take a pretty long time to buss the tables. Ive also experienced getting utensils that had some...

Food tastes good. Although for those with palates that have higher preference as to saltiness, you may find the food a little bit lacking in it. They serve different food and different menus depending on the time of day. For instance, in the morning they offer food "appropriate" for most everyone such as egg, danggit, chorizo, bacon. They also have various desserts from cakes to halo halo to mango float, and various drinks such as del monte fruit juices and chocolate drinks. If you prefer water, they have service water that is not tap water, which is a plus...

I wanted to love this place, since I liked the concept. It’s similar to a US style cafeteria. You grab a tray, a plate, some rice, then move through the line.

Unfortunately the service was horrible, and the food, while good, way overpriced.

Anytime I asked what something was, the server rolled his eyes, walked away and started doing something else. The place wasn’t even busy.

I’m a foreigner but here I felt like an outsider. Find an authentic karenderia for people who actually want to share their culture with you. You’ll pay about a third...