3 reviews about Manila Restaurant

verified email - 04 Jan 2015

The biggest and first Filipino restaurant in Perth that offers most of the all-time favorpurite Pinoy dishes like crispy pata, lechon kawali, kare-kate, adobo, sinigang and many others. They also have halu-halo, and their version of leche flan is just perfect. The restaurant interior requires few improvements to make it look more welcoming. Currently the interior design is quite dull despite the fact that it's decorated with frames and stuff from the Philippines.

If you're a karaoke lover, and wants to dine with large group of friends/family, this is the place to be!

They have a dinner buffet from Friday night to weekend at about $30 pp.

Approximate cost: $25

verified email - 17 Nov 2009

The decorations in this place are fantastic, you feel as if you could be in the Philippines with lots of stuffed monkeys and flashing fairy lights. There's a buffet available on Friday, Saturday and Sunday and it's displayed in a cute hut within the restaurant, and a beach-style bar serving $10 cocktails (which were good for the price). All other drinks were well priced too. Water bottles were served to the table but I had to take them to the bar to be re-filled, although the staff could have easily done this for us as they were certainly not busy.

The buffet is around $30 and you pretty much get what you pay for - the salads and desserts were great but the meat dishes were made with very low quality cuts and were full of gristle. No greeting or introduction was given when we arrived so we were left wondering what to do next, although I was quite sure that a-la-carte was available as I saw others ordering additional dishes later on in the night. The service was friendly when I went up to the bar to ask for things, but it was not forthcoming although there seemed to be enough waitstaff to serve the few people in the restaurant.

Karaoke gears up around 8:30 (the perfect time). There's a great song selection here. I submitted my song at the beginning of the set but was still not called at 10:00pm. I asked the DJ who didn't seem to care, and it was still another half hour before I was called. In the meantime, the same few Filipino girls had been chosen to sing multiple times. I could see others in the restaurant who appeared to feel the same about not getting their songs played. When my turn finally arrived, the lyrics were terribly out of sync with the song. The speakers are facing toward the audience so on stage, there is no audio feedback for the singer.

This had so much potential to be a good night, but was ruined by the poor service. It is so unfortunate that I will not be a regular at this restaurant, as I had fully intended to be if treated like I was welcome there.

Approximate cost: $30

verified email - 14 Nov 2009

I was very excited to be going to the only Filipino restaurant in Perth especially since they do karaoke, but I was a bit disappointed. The food was a buffet and it was quite average (as I expected). The dessert was probably the best part. The cocktails were nice and very cheap but the karaoke and service were disappointing to say the least.

The service was totally non-existent. No one ever came to the table to offer us drinks or even menus. From the website it seemed you could pick a buffet or just do an order for something specific but no one told us when we came in so we assumed we had to just have the buffet (but who really knows).

The thing that was the most disappointing was the restaurant was not very crowded but our karaoke songs were never picked. Some of the restaurant 'regulars' seemed to have 4-5 turns in the time we got even though we requested four of five songs. It was very disappointing as know one likes to feel someone else is being favoured over you.

We did not feel like we were valued as customers in even the slightest measure. I really wish it was better as this place has lots of potential.

Approximate cost: $28 (buffet)

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