Vanilla Sky Restaurant — Restaurant in Panglao

2 stars for the service; they were very nice people. Unfortunately the food was no good. We went for the pizza and the lasagna. They told us that they did not have homemade mozzarella di buffala but they had a imported one. They had delivery issues… Okay, that’s fine! I mean if the guy is doing it’s own mozzarella di buffala, he probably knows what’s he’s doing and the pizza must be awesome right? We couldn’t have been wronger… No fresh mozzarella at all on the pizza but just some sort of grated cheese. Being myself a pizzaiolo, I greatly doubt it’s was fresh or homemade dough. More like a pita bread. And the lasagna was made from fresh pasta, but fresh frozen (just like Gorgon would say) and microwaved. We haven’t eaten this one. Terrible.

The real problem with all this is, it’s written everywhere on the menu that almost ALL pizzas are made from fresh mozzarella di buffala and pasta are fresh. But it’s not.

Please advise properly your customers and don’t try to fool them. We tried to tell the owner but wasn’t interested of hearing it.

COVID has been so hard on F&B businesses. We know it. We’ve been working in this industry for decades my wife and I. We hope that things get better for them and everyone else. Be considered for those tourists, customers that are spending their hardly harvest money at your place. Wish you...

Hands down the best Italian restaurant in Panglao. A few kilometers away from the alona traffic, it's perfect for dates or slow sit-down dinners.

Vanilla Sky was named after the 2001 Tom Cruise film, but the flavors of every plate coming from their kitchen are far from Vanilla.

A molecular biologist by profession, the owner, Alex, creates well-balanced dishes that would surely tickle your palette.

He makes mozarella, buratta, and pizza dough from scratch using the best sourced ingredients.

We got the buratta, and if you LOVE truffle, you'll love this dish! Elevate your caprese game and go for this one instead. The pomodoro and meatballs did not disappoint. The highlight of the meal was the pizza. We tried out the meat lovers, and we managed to inhale every slice in a snap. We even ordered another!

Dessert is a MUST in Vanilla Sky. Legit Italian Tiramisu made from scratch by Alex himself. Just the right amount of sweetness and comes with a bright red cherry on top.

I want to keep this quaint little restaurant to myself, but it deserves...

Tartufata was the best pizza we ever had! My husband loved Meat lover pizza but it was a bit salty to me. However when I tried a slice of Tartufata and meat lover together (made like a sandwich) it was fantastic combination! The mozzarella cheese flavor was so good I understood why they emphasized about homemade cheese. We liked Greek salad just wish veggies were colder. There was miscommunication when we ordered that we asked switch salami to spicy salami but it was charged for extra salami maybe that was the reason it got salty but it's not a big deal since it was still delicious! Our issues were mosquitoes and the chair made me sweat because of the material so next time I'd wear long pants and sit in the middle instead of near the garden. It was nice that a staff brought a mosquito repellent coil under our table but we were hurry to leave because those bites were so itchy. We definitely come here again to try other foods and for sure ordering again Tartufata pizza! Oh available to pay with a credit card was a big...