Conti's Bakeshop and Restaurant

Dropped by to get a cake for our sister's birthday and decided to have a late lunch. Maybe 1/3 full of customers well after standard lunch time. Plenty of staff around. Took forever to get the waiter to take our order (shared salad, club sandwich, San Mig pilsner, two halo-halo)

Told us 25 minutes (!)

First day making a sandwich, I guess. Brought the halo-halo out first and fought us when we protested. The San Mig never showed, and we finally had to try to hijack our own tubig before the waiter showed up with a water pitcher. Salad arrived next (supposed to be served together) and the sandwich - not yet, and I've been writing this for awhile. Didn't have big expectations for the food, but they even missed that low bar.

Exceptionally nice building with a beautiful Blue Ridge terrace, great facility, but the staff was only present in body. Seems like Manila has a ready and willing workforce wanting to get back to normal operations, but you would never suspect it from encountering this crew of sales-prevention experts.

Stop by for a piece of cake, maybe a coffee, enjoy the nice view, but order food at your own risk. You have been warned.

PS - the halo-halo, when it arrived, was pretty good.