Pinoy Corner Aurora IL — Restaurant in Aurora

This review is for the grocery section only. I didn't try to get any of their hot food.

NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS: The store is on the small side. They don't carry as much items as Jofen or FM Asian Foid Mart.

PROS:

A clean Filipino food store! Finally. This is in sharp contrast to the filthy, greasy, grimy Jofen ORIENTAL in Bolingbrook.

Pinoy Corner's freezers and refrigerators are clean, well-maintained, and have doors that close. Again, this is in sharp contrast to Jofen Oriental's dirty, filthy, too warm, poorly maintained, beat up, overstuffed, on-its-last-legs refrigerators and freezers.

The food in the freezers and refrigerators don't look old or expired. They look fresh, especially when compared with Jofen. This is the first Filipino food store in the Chicagoland area that I would be comfortable to purchase perishable food from.

The staff member present, the husband of the lady who cooks food in their restaurant section, was polite, friendly, and solicitous. He greeted and spoke to me in Tagalog so I automatically assumed that he's Filipino. It wasn't until I was paying for my purchases that I realized that he's Caucasian! He is the first Caucasian person I've met who can speak Tagalog fluently in the 30 years I've lived in the Chicagoland area.

Their prices are decent and competitive with other Filipino food stores.

CON: Many items on the shelves don't have the price displayed.

I purchased 1 Nagaraya garlic cracker nuts and 1 can of Ligo Squid 15 Oz for $1.99 and $3.09 respectively. Fair prices in my opinion.

I will tell my parents about this place. They have long been looking for a clean Filipino food store staffed by professionals selling safe to eat perishable food items that are...

This is why Filipino restaurants are struggling. Poor customer service and false advertising. I ordered the fried bangus as per according to their online menu.

They charged $15.49 for one fish no sides, no silverware, no water, no sig sig. They say they have food but only one dirty table to sit at.

The lady was not hospitable. She served the food still open and no bag. I come from over 20 years in customer service and by far our Filipino stores lack so much upgrades. We are not in the Philippines.

Upgrade the place. It’s filthy. I only still paid cuz it was already made but I would not recommend this place to anyone for food to eat. Everything they had prepared was pork. EW.

If you had more options and upgraded set up and SERVED WATER AND UTENSILS TO dine in customers you would have business.

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This is the new Filipino store in the area competing with J&S Oriental Store down the street 5 mins away. Store is run by a husband and wife team, husband runs the front and cash register while the wife runs the back kitchen. Kitchen is open to the customers to see how cooked foods and catered foods are prepared to show customers confidence that the foods are prepared according to health standards. Unlike J&S Oriental where you don't see their kitchen. Prices are also lower and item selections are better. Aside from that, store is clean and well-run. Their money remittance fee to the Philippines are the lowest in Chicagoland and quite fast. Good customer service. Stopped going to J&S simply because Pinoy...