La Parrilla de Manila

Alan Stewart a year ago

On January 3, 2025, my wife and I dined with a good friend of my wife's at La Parilla de Manila. In terms of atmosphere, La Parilla is clean, bright, stylish without being overly upscale in appearance, with white tablecloth covered tables. My wife and our friend, both having grown up in the Philippines, are better judges of "authenticity" of the dishes we were served, which were: (1) Lumpiang Shanghai appetizer; (2) Kare Kare; (3) Pork BBQ; (4) Lechon Kawali; and (5) my selection - Shrimp Gambas. We also had Garlic Rice with our dishes. All dishes wree very tasy, with the runaway consensus best being the Pork BBQ. The Lechon Kawali was flavorful but the preference of my two wiser co-diners was that it should have been cut smaller than it was. The Shrimp Gambas, comprised in part of shrimp, onion, garlic, red and green bell pepper and cooking wine, was great - it had the perfect level of spice to complement the deflt-balanced ingredients. My wife absolutely loves Kare Kare and was very happy with that delicious dish. The sole disappointment was that due to a very large party that was celebrating at another table, our service was very slow. I expect that this is not the norm an

Carl O 2 years ago

Was passing by and noticed this place and parked. I love Filipino foods. Very cozy place for made to order food. Authentic and tasty foods served with friendly smiles. I was filled to the rim and could not stop eating. When you leave here you will need a nap 💟🐷

Kristin Klingaman 2 years ago

First time visit and as much as we enjoyed the food the service was extremely slow. My partner and I arrived before a large party of 20 and for whatever reason this party was served their apps and meals before us. Service was disappointing and we do not plan on returning.

Jenny S. 2 years ago

The first time I tried this place was 3years ago. Used to take clients here to try authentic Filipino food. Today, had late lunch here with fam and food doesn’t taste good at all. Sizzling balut taste bland, nothing extra ordinary, chicharon bulaklak’s not crispy, sizzling squid is not properly cooked and the Kawali, bland & the meat smells. The Kare2 and fried calamari tasted okay. The service was so unsatisfactory. Food service was slow, all main dish should be served together and not one then after 15-20min. another dish. Not the service you expected.

Vince C 5 years ago

I made a reservation for a specific time, but we were running late so I decided to call to let them know that we would be about half an hour late. The young lady who answered informed us that they were heavily understaffed and asked me if we would like to place order on the phone so that we wouldn't have to wait. I unfortunately had to decline because we didn't know what we wanted yet. When we got there, we rang the bell and we were greeted with the young lady whom I later discovered to be the hostess, waitress, food runner and bus girl. She promptly checked each of our temperatures before we were seated. She took our drink orders after which, I watched how she managed to care of three other tables that were enjoying their meals. After waiting for about 10 minutes, she came back with our drinks and took our orders. The menu was quite full but unfortunately, they didn't have the appetizer that we were all craving that evening (chicharon bulaklak.) We ordered an array of dishes and each and every one of them were delicious. They were portioned just right (maybe even larger) for a party of five. The flavors and the freshness of the ingredients were all there. Kudos to the chef who p