Manille Bar LIO — Restaurant in El Nido

PWD Discount: this establishment honors the discount card and excludes VAT as prescribed by law for the items ordered by the card holder. The establishment also issues official receipts.

Friendly server, good food, nice ambience.

I liked the fried red snapper which was the 'Catch of the Day' (Php300) and their pastas which our group ordered. Damn that fish was huuuge and I couldn't eat it all up.

Our table of 10 was served in 30 minutes which is a decent amount of time.

A few mishaps on the order taken --- we were served more pasta than we ordered. Thankfully my group accepted the excess platter of anchovy aglio olio IIRC so the staff were not in trouble. We also had to accept a red snapper order which was mistakenly grilled instead of fried. My companion liked it anyway although the fried fish was much much better. A friend mentioned the chicken inasal being tough. Apart from that, nothing much that detracts from the experience. We were a hungry lot and appreciated being served as the sun set.

I'm giving this 5 stars as I feel like this establishment deserves to get more stars. Although personally i feel like they're 4.5. Appreciating the PWD discount and courteous waitress a lot, so here goes extra points.

Would I come back? I'm effin' broke and got dragged here but if I had money, sure~ fried fish and pasta...

WARNING: I got food/water poisoning from Lio Beach from one of three places: Punta Playa (mixed croquettes, mixed Paella), Liam’s (lime daiquiri), or Manille Beach Bar (nachos) + service water at all three.

The food at Manille’s was subpar - the cheese on the nachos was cold and my husband’s garlic shrimp pasta only came with a few tiny shrimp.

Do yourself a favor and don’t drink the service water or ice anywhere even if you’re told it’s purified and be careful with...

Cannot understand the negative reviews here! We ate here NINE times sampling several dishes and never got sick! Identifying exactly which food(s) caused the poisoning is VERY difficult given that we all eat at 2-4 places by the time symptoms appear! By ANY standard, their salads are excellent as is their BBQ pork, chicken dishes, tofu dish, etc. Shakes are also quite good. I'm not a big drinker/alcoholic so cannot speak to cocktails but other reviewers seem...