Tamarind Restaurant — Restaurant in Puerto Galera

Excellent restaurant! All of the food was great, especially the specialty of the barbecued ribs, both the spicy and non-spicy were great. The appetizers, including garlic, shrimp, Caesar salad, Greek salad, calamari and bruschetta were all super tasty flavorful, and fresh.

Drinks, including the mango shake and cold beers all hit the spot.

The seaside location is very nice although it was a bit stuffy inside. Would be great to be able to eat outside, although they did not allow ordering food at the outside tables, only drinks.

Service was very friendly and kind but must say a little bit slow. It took about 30 minutes for us to get our first round of drinks after sitting down. The restaurant was very busy and it seemed they were understaffed so understandable. All of the wait staff spoke excellent English.

Overall great experience and would highly recommend if you’re in the area.

One negative I must mention, they did not accept credit cards. Said that their POS machine was broken, even when I offered to add 3% to the check (which I shouldn’t have to offer). If they would accept Visa it...

Food is good, Ambience is good. Server service, No. You already finish your food but it's so hard to request for Water. It's either they're on the bar chitchatting or won't look at you. We let it pass, since we have our Shakes, anyway. But God, we want to bill out, you will need to wait another hour, (yes I'm overreacting) before they come to collect your payment, we don't have the exact amount so we need to wait for them. I tried to observe if someone will remember or atleast made eye contact. Nothing, still busy chitchatting, maybe because it's near closing as i always hear them only 15 mins left to each other. Maybe if we leave without paying it will take an hour before they knew we're gone. In the end, my bf goes to their bar to pay. Hope you fix it and be as good...

we ordered around 6 dishes 2 pasta that we ordered are great, truffle soup isnt it taste like instant mix that can be bought in a local gstore, potato wedge awesome but the sauce needs improvement and i like to point out the wagyu beef 9pcs which cost 750 php which i know real wagyu cost x10 of this actual cost but to put it in a menu saying wagyu beef and serve a giniling beef shaped into cube and serve as wagyu is a cheat (see pictures) we took out left overs of wagyu beef to take a picture and share it here, i tell you this isnt a wagyu beef. im giving 2 stars for the food because of this wagyu beef cheat, 4 stars for the ambient and 5 stars for the...