Restaurant Review: Sarap!

Pixie's Grill

Cuisine Type: Grill / Filipino food
Address: Mother Ignacia St., Quezon City (near ABS-CBN)

This place is heavenly I have to say. Unlike most restaurants which are most likely affordable for a catch (like a significant reduction in quality), this restaurant maintains an impressive taste regardless.

I had lunch with Aine and Mark today and for 470 pesos (around $10), considering we were with Mark, we had an excellent meal. We had two orders of their inihaw na liempo (grilled pork ribs) which was sinful from the meat to the fat to the crispy skin marinated in a sweet concoction, which I dare not question, enhanced further with the blending sensation of a mixture of vinegar, soy sauce and siling labuyo. (the local spicy pepper)

Our next viand was their specialty boneless inihaw na bangus (grilled milk fish) which comes in not 1, not 2 but 5 different sizes, from small to jumbo! Being the fish-hater that I am, I completely loved this dish and not just because it was boneless. I would recommend this with calamansi (our local lemon) mixed with soy sauce and siling labuyo.

The other dish was dinuguan (a saucy dish made of pig meat stewed in its own blood) -- don't be too surprised this is quite a popular dish in this country which, by the way, my cousin Richard in States absolutely adores -- which was as plain as the bowl it was served with. And, of course, 4 cups of rice. (And you don't need to guess who had 2)

The ambiance was average but convenient because it had an airconditioned area for the non-smokers. Parking wasn't too bad either considering it was 12 noon.

I would definitely come back here, preferrably during the evening when, as they say, the drinking can commence.

Hail to Pixie's!

RATING: 9 out of 10

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