We chose a Filipino restaurant for the guy’s birthday, somewhere we’d thought about for a while now - Islas. We’ve not liked the idea of this cuisine but then enjoyed the Filipino fast food we’ve had so were going for a real restaurant this time. I think we should have stuck to the fast food counters! We chose one prix fixe and one a la carte item. We started with grilled oysters, buttery and cheesy. I liked them. This was followed by a skimpy belly pork with some rice and a vinegary cucumber and tomato salad (more like a relish) and some sizzling kalbi ribs. The cassava and coconut cake finish was sweet and interesting. We enjoyed the kalbi ribs the most but at $26 we might have done better at the Korean place across the street and had some banchan to round it out. On top of this, the meats were dripping with grease and I ruined my new favourite top.
So forget fancy - we are going back to Batibot the Filipino food counter down the street for some Adobo pork – lots of it at a fraction of the price
(My photos are MIA but will add them in comments if they show up)
