Painted Table — Restaurant in Puerto Princesa

Came here for our last night in PP. We heard about it via local artist Mark Garcia and had passed by the hotel a few times which looked attractive. The waiting staff were extremely attentive (personally too much for me at one point as I like to read the menu without being stood over). However they were so kind, knowledge about the menu and allergies and we overheard them being familiar with cultural differiences ie. No certain types of meat. Jerick tried to teach us some Tagalog and we had a laugh singing Sibbiana/Baby co. The venue was clean, querky and beautiful. We would have liked to see a drinks menu but remembered a cucumber lemonade from the reviews , perhaps we should have stuck to calamansi - it was nice but more like a green ice smoothie than traditional cucumber lemonade! I ordered pork ribs which came with corn and onion rings, my other half ordered chicken which came with mash and vegetables. Both thought food was exceptional quality for value and considering location. We bought a mango qusidia for desert (this did not look so appetising - see image- like green mould! But was tasty, similar to a thick crep) as well as spicy chocolate moose with merange which was delicious ( I had food envy)!!! No toilet roll in toilet but otherwise a great...

I don't know what all the good reviews are about, this place was terrible. Service was incredibly slow, though they were friendly (one lady at another table got so tired of waiting she literally got up and grabbed her own food off the counter!). Nothing was really available on the menu either: I wanted the nachos- they didn't have nachos; I said, "Okay, no problem, we'll try the sweet potato empanadas"- 5 minutes later they come back and say no empanadas either, so we just skipped the appetizer. My husband got the beef burrito and I had a simple cheese "quesadilla" (which was actually just three crunchy rainbow tacos filled with cheese and pickled onion so I guess they couldn't do the quesadillas either🤷‍♀️) First off, the portions are small and definitely overpriced. My husband's burrito was mainly rice and they added some really strange ingredients to both meals, they also PUT THE LETTUCE INSIDE THE BURRITO & TACOS BEFORE COOKING THEM! Why??? Why on Earth would anyone want to eat warm, wilted lettuce?! I had to pick everything but the cheese out... needless to say, we were still hungry after eating our meals and ended up catching a trike to another restaurant to fill up 🤷‍♀️ Not...

I can't believe this place doesn't have only 5 star reviews, its AMAZING! The food is outrageously good and the service is fast which is unusual in the Philippines. I would recommend every dish we had and the cocktails were the best we have had since leaving Australia 7months ago. We had the cauliflower fried with blue cheese Dip. The mozzarella stuffed Chili's wrapped in bacon with blue cheese sip (so f'in good). The slow cooked beef curry with brown rice and two cocktails: banana and baileys and the tornado?? Baileys, chocolate and orange juice- sounds weird but was absolutely delicious! The best food in Puerto princessa, definitely the best food we have had in Philippines. Expect to pay around 350 a dish for some really really amazing food and...