La Preciosa Ilocos Corp — Restaurant in Ilocos Norte

If I can rate this restaurant -5, I will. Their service was not at par with their 4.2 rating. My husband and I went to Ilocos region for a road trip and we stopped at La preciosa to grab lunch. Parking area was non-existent and we have to park at the side road. We arrived and we were seated the same time as a group of 10 people came in. We ordered dinengdeng, a glass of iced tea, anato rice and pancit molo. Our first two orders were served after 15 mins. 30 mins have passed and the rest of our order were not yet served. Since my husband and I were not in a hurry, we decided not to sweat about it and instead, we patiently followed it up with the waiter. We also noticed that the table for 10 people didn't have any of their orders yet. 1 hour have passed since we were seated, our now cold dinengdeng in our table and we still don't have our anato rice and pancit molo. This time, the lady from the other table (group of 10) stood up and went to talk to the manager who was seated at reception area and followed up with their order. Surprisingly, after 5 mins, their orders started to arrive at their table. My husband and I just looked at each other with incredulity in our eyes. The manager noticed us and asked what food are we missing then she went to the kitchen. She came back and said that our food were still being prepared. We waited... but our patience started to dwindle. My husband stood up and talked to the manager. How much time it is to prepare anato rice and pancit molo? The manager just stood there with no other words to say, that our food are still being prepared. We then realized that they forgot our order and prioritized the order from the big group (group of 10). To sum it up, we arrived at La preciosa at 11 am and left at 12:45 pm with just water in...

When in Ilocos, one must try Ilocano cuisine—and La Preciosa is a good place to go for it. We ordered Poqui Poqui (their version of tortang talong), Pinakbet with Sitcharon, Dinengdeng, Insarabasab. It’s kind of pricy, relative to the region, but pretty normal prices compared to Manila.

I recommend the Poqui Poqui and the Insarabasab, which were both highlights. I found the serving for the Insarabasab not worth it for the price, while the Pinakbet was good, I kinda expected more bagnet (as advertised). We also ordered smoothies, and the banana one was the standout as the mango one was weird.

The main draw would probably be their carrot cake, which is one of the best I ever had in the country! An exagerration? No, it’s simply that good.

My main gripe, however, was the time it took to serve our order. Our dinner coincided with a dinner of a prominent political family who literally filled up almost the entire place (at least 30). While I am confident that they didn’t order beforehand, we arrived first, and they should have not taken almost an hour to serve us.

Still a great place to dine, especially if you’re with...

It was one of the most upsetting places. There were several waiter/waitress and yet they got our order wrong several times. They forgot 3 of the dishes and drinks we ordered.

The servings was small even though the waiter said it was good for 2-3 persons.

They were slow at serving water, they filled our glass and took the pitcher away. We ordered 3 ice teas and it came at the end of our meal and we even reminded them several times.

The hygiene was disasteous. The servers were touching the top of our glasses and bowls, and even when they were fixing other tables they were touching the oart of the spoons and forks you put in your mouth.

One of the servers were in the CR with me, and after urinating he did not wash his hands and went straight back to the kitchen.

This place is absolutely disastrous and hell-like.

I wouldnt recommend this to my worst enemy....