Z Hostel Cafe

Adelaide Patricia

3.0

For many backpackers and budget travelers, finding the right accommodation is key for a great travel experience.  Southeast Asia has a splendid lists of hostels and guesthouses that had made traveling with ease more of a delight than an adventure.  Our country boasts of some great ones too.  In Makati, website has garnered a lot of reviews from it's registered users from this hostel seated right smack where Makati fun and nightlife is, all you need is to look for the letter Z.

Serhan Kösemek

1.0

Service sucks, food sucks, your bestseller suck balls. Not worth the money! There are a LOT of places I can think of that is 10x better than this place.

Grasiana Cicilia

4.0

Z Hostel Bar and Cafe is the resto of this nice, fairly new hostel of the same name along Don Pedro St., Poblacion. Located at the 2/F which you access through a stairway at the side of the lobby, it's a cleanly furnished, with nice touches of wood all around, and a well designed cafe. Seems the owner is either a motivation speaker or a lover of sports with all these quotes/lines on the wall.Segue: This is a sponsored Poblacion food crawl by Sriracha (the original one, by Huy Fong Foods, Inc. of CA, USA). We tried about 1-2 items on the average per place, and the menu item should contain Sriracha. Sriracha's flagship sauce is slightly sweet and only slightly spicy (about a 3-4 out of 10). Spiciness, like taste, is relative and Sriracha's is great coz it builds up heat at the end. #SrirachaPHZ Hostel Bar & Cafe, at a Glance:> Food & Beverage: 4/5 Filipino food, tourist friendly.> Service (Dine-In): 5/5 friendly, efficient & proactive> Kitchen Service: 4/5> Ambience: 4/5 simple, but very well designed, comfy and a place I'd hang out> Value for Money: 5/5 Food and drinks in the P150 to P250 range. Portions good for the price and tourist plus local friendly. Fits Poblacion to a tee.OVERALL: 4/5___________Worth a try - Yes if you're checked in or just looking for a chill place; then come upstairs for the roof deck view of Rockwell at Z Hostel RooftopWorth a return - Sure, I'd recommend to backpackers. Even the hostel itself looks great> TIPSOrder their chicken or pork adobo flakes (they have 3 kinds). P180 and awesome, slightly moist but retains a crispy side, good sauce. Their single serve sisig was great (I'd order that again.) Perfect they serve Pinoy food for the tourists.Parking's a bit of a challenge so park somewhere near like Century Mall and walk over (10 mins) or Uber/cab it.> VERDICT: Z Hostel is an impressively designed hostel, clean, nicely laid out. The bar and cafe plus their Z Hostel Roofdeck are laid out well, cozy enough to chill, and well priced to enjoy the hours on end. I won't review the hostel and roofdeck separetely but let me just say that I enjoyed my brief time here. The staff are friendly, their marketing, Nes, took us around on a short tour. Very professional. The adobo flakes and sisig were well done, correctly earning best sellers status.More details:Their take on Sriracha, one of the food crawl's wings, was too simple for my taste. That can sometimes work, but I have to find pluses in the wings like it was meaty or crunchy or really moist and flavorful. This was just all right for me, about a 3/5. The flavors and heat were there, but nothing I'd go back to. I'm glad they let us try their best sellers, which made the experience better than a 3, which I would have given if not for the sisig and adobo flakes.I think it was perfect that this was our first stop. The lobby was perfect for a modern and hip hostel. 6th and 7th pics, plus Z Roofdeck view of Rockwell and the DJ booth for the 8th and 9th pics.The hostel has 128 beds and 8 private rooms (the rest are obviously sharing). Like I said perfect for backpackers and those looking for a cheap but nightlife centric, yet good staycation place in Makati (use the private rooms).