Manam Netpark — Restaurant in Taguig

I usually don’t like to start off a review negatively, but after being seated as a solo diner, it took over 10 minutes for anyone to acknowledge me. It wasn’t until I made explicit eye contact that I was finally approached by a server, asking me if I had already ordered. So not the best start. While the restaurant was busy, this is pretty inexcusable and disappointing. After this, I tempered my expectations because a restaurant that doesn’t care about its customers, probably doesn’t care about its food quality as well, but I kept an open mind.

The next negative point was that the restaurant did not have WiFi for the guests. While I understand the idea of wanting to enjoy a meal with friends and focus on conversation and food, this is a tourist focused-restaurant in a popular part of town, and WiFi would have helped me pass my alone time, instead of just staring at the menu.

The menu had so many offerings, I was truly blown away and struggled to make a decision, because all the food on the menu, and the food I saw being served looked delicious. This would be my first foray into the world of Filipino food, and despite the lack of any customer service, I was excited.

First, I ordered a delicious salad called Ensaladang NamNam, that consisted of green mango, red onion, tomatoes and a few other vegetables I wasn’t familiar with. This was healthy, fresh and delicious! Great flavor. Would definitely get it again.

Next, I ordered the overloaded garlicky chicken and pork belly and WOW! This was delicious and very tender. Juicy, flavorful, with the perfect level of crispiness. I’d get it again and again.

Despite the unfortunate beginning, I really enjoyed the food and will come...

We picked Manam to let our guest experience how great filipino food is. Manam didn't disappoint us when it comes to the quality of their dishes. However, WE can clearly feel the discrimination when we arrived (we were wearing proper attire and shoes) but not as impressive how the other customers were. They asked us to sit beside a group, and then moved to another table (we requested to move AGAIN to a table at the middle so my grandma can easily make her way on her chair) but the male server was quite irritated and said we can't sit on the table we wanted to (considering that there were many vacant tables and no waiting customers outside). But once we started ordering a GOOD amount and our guest came and our family started to convers , we noticed how friendly and accomodating they suddenly were and even pullout another table (that is too much for 6 people) just to put our food. When they serve food, you cannot observe the politeness that you can experience in other restaurants, as simple as asking you to move the plates so they will be able to put our orders, instead they just push the plates and glasses that caused my mom's glass to almost trip at the edge of the table. I noticed it and told her "wait let me move her plate" but as if she did not hear anything. We managed to stay calm and tried to ignore the quality of service so our simple family gathering...

We got here for lunch 20 mins before 12pm and the place is almost full. We were lucky to get one of the last few available tables.

I'm not very well-versed with Filipino food so this is pretty much my first time trying everything..My favourites are the gising gising and house crispy sisig. They also offer a one time free top up of the soup for watermelon sinigang.

I also like that there is an option between small and large portions because this means you can try more dishes even in a smaller group!

The ultimate best thing we had was the buko pie. You could literally smell the buttery puff pastry when they serve it to you warm..the coconut sauce drizzled over the pie brings everything together.

Great place to have Filipino food because they have all the classics along with a few fusion dishes.

My only issue with this place is the service. We spent most of our time there waiting to get the server's attention to order our food and even to pay the bill. Food service is also quite slow, so unless you have 1.5 - 2 hours to spare for your meal, I wouldn't recommend to come here if you're rushing for time. If not for the service, I would have given this place 5...