5 Cien — Restaurant in Lapu-Lapu

The food is really bad, I’ve tried ordering from the a la cart menu twice, the first time I though maybe I ordered something that wasn’t good, and I gave it another chance ordering something completely different, but it was as bad as the first time. They put some sort of spice in the everything that makes it borderline uneatable. The only dish that was decent was the fries, fortunately it didn’t have the same spices on it. It takes a long time to cook too, even when the restaurant is not busy. Be prepared to wait 30-40 minutes for a rice dish.

The dinner buffet looked good with good variety, but I’m afraid to try it now and waste 2250 pesos on it.

UPDATE: both the breakfast and dinner buffets are amazing and totally worth the money. The service could still use improvements though, when they seat you and offer coffee, the said coffee might not show up for 20-30 minutes (I ended up just going to the coffee station myself and asking after getting tired of waiting). Also since breakfast buffet is included with the stay expect more people in the morning as compared to the dinner buffet, which most of the time is half empty and more enjoyable. We ended up just eating at the buffets for the rest...

We tried 5 Cien's ala carte menu for lunch and we were pleasantly surprised with the quality of food and the serving size.

We had the Surf & Turf Lumpia, Pad Thai and Steamed Grouper for a group of three. First of all, all three dishes came in huge servings. So big that we had a lot of take aways for us to enjoy at our room (they gladly packed the food for us even the rice and complimentary bread).

The complimentary bread was really tasty and soft and it was also served with soft butter. No rock-hard bread and butter which made it a pleasurable wait for our food. All three dishes were packed with taste. The lumpia had a different flavor to it, almost tasting like lechon, which was very satisying. The Pad Thai was more on the sour side but tasted so refreshing and the grouper was tender and flavorful.

The awesome food was complemented by the topnotch service that is unmistakably Sheraton. It was warm, excellent and we were very much well attended.

Absolutely great food and...

Not too bad of a restuarant at this resort. I believe it offers daily buffets for breakfast, lunch and dinner, as well as normal restaurant hours of operations.

One important thing to note would be service time. I sat down at around 9pm and it took more than 45 minutes for the food to reach the table, even though it's was maybe one of only 4 people inside. To me, it's wasn't as big of a deal as the staff were very apologetic and nice - I can also understand that the kitchen was probably winding down operations in order to close at 10:30pm. So again, something to note but not too big of a problem.

The food itself was delicious, my favorites being the lechon fried rice paired with the surf and turf dumplings. The Conserv-ative cocktail was also great tasting.

I really need to put out how well trained and professional the staff is at this restaurant/resort. They truly made the experience better and...