Kabayan — Restaurant in New York

I heard that Manny's had a new owner and was excited to come and try their food. I had high hopes that this place would be good since the new owners also own Kabayan, a restaurant that I like.

At first glance when you first enter, there doesn't seem to have been any changes made and the bake shop and restaurant look the same. They offer the same turo turo style food on one side and the restaurant on the other.

After looking at the menu and noticing that the prices went up significantly, we decided to go with the turo turo dining. We ordered three combo meals, which is rice with two dishes. I must say the portions are quite smaller than in other Filipino restaurants. We got the bangus, sisig, BBQ chicken, bistik,bopis and longanisa. I thought the sisig was excellent. Surprisingly crunchy still with a nice lemon flavor. This was my favorite of all the items we ordered. The bistik also had good flavor but the meat was kinda of tough. The BBQ chicken was a disappointing blah piece of meat. The longanisa tasted good. And both the bangus and bopis were okay. We also decided to try their halo halo special. It's cheaper than most places at only $7. Unfortunately, it was a bit skimpy on the flavor. It needed more milk and had too much ice and not enough toppings.

The staff were very nice but it was still a disappointing visit. I think I probably should have waited a bit longer before trying Manny's again. I'll probably come back when the new owners have had time to make more...

We called 4days in advance to pickup an order at a certain time… we came 20 mins late because it was weekend ‘’maybe they are busy”… so my wife went inside to pick it up!! Surprise surprise our 3 orders are not cooked yet!! And my wife went out of the restaurant because she said the people that are inside “Cooks” are very rude and nasty… saying “you guys are the one who is late to pickup the food” i am very shocked on what my wife said to me.. so i went inside to wait for the food, just waiting for the cooks inside to say something.. luckily the cashier “lady” is very apologetic on the behavior of the cooks and that the orders are not cooked in advance.. Not gonna order at this location anymore… just go to other location where they have a crew that has respect on the customers who bring...

This place is now called Kabayan. We order lechon here all the time and we always get the home made lechon sarsa sauce. Whenever I ordered the lechon, I would ask for the home made sarsa and order extra. They will always say yes we will give it to you. But the last 2 times we ordered lechon here, they just gave us a bottle of Mang Tomas sarsa. I would ask where’s the home made sarsa and the lady with the short hair in the dining area would say “oh we don’t make it anymore!” I’m like but when I ordered the lechon, I asked for it and you said yes. I don’t know why she lies a lot. They don’t even make it if you ask them while you’re there. It was just very...