Isla Cafe

Tayfun Güngör

4.0

Isla Cafe is located along a hallway at Robinsons Place Manila. It serves traditional Filipino dishes and merienda fare. The Hacienda Style Arroz Caldo and the Tokwa't Baboy is a great combination. The congee is big enough for single serving but it is flavorful and good. The tokwa't baboy adds sourness, saltiness, and crunch to the dish. (It is ordered separately).For dessert, I enjoyed the Malaubeng Panaginip and the Cassava Cake with Salted Caramel. Malaubeng Panaginip is Leche Flan on top and Ube Haleya at the bottom. It is sweet and sinful, but good. I love cassava cake and this dish adds to the reason why I love it.Ambiance is set on a spanish colonial period. Staffs are friendly. #yummiez

Halil Kara

4.0

ISLA CAFERobinsons ManilaThough the place was open to the public, you can still feel the calming ambiance of an Old Filipino-Spanish Style house, from the chairs and tables, to the decorations and the staffs uniforms. Everytime I visit this place, the staffs wear different Filipinianas and Barongs. Seing these people makes me the old Filipino-Spanish era, they even call me "senyorita" ahahah! (feeling donya that time oha!) And of course for the males, they call them "senyorito", hmmm I wonder if they use senor and senora, maybe for the old ones! 😜They serve various Filipino dishes which you will surely love. But the food that keeps us coming back here is the #MALAUBENGPANAGINIP that melts in your mouth and the #CASSAVACAKE! Come and try this place for some old time loving! 😘😘😘

Hasan Aydemir

2.0

This was just bad.. Sauce was diluted.. Noodles were not strained properly like this was done in a rush.. No wonder it took me more than a year to go back..

Kat Aguilar

3.0

When we first entered, the waiter was so busy to serve us. But he was very nice that he actually explain to us what is on the menu since we are foreigner. I ordered a pancit lucban. It was not dry as some one commented before, it was moist enough to me but a bit salty. It tasted good with the sour sauce given which balance with the saltiness. But do not try the chicken-pork adobo which was only PHP 135. It didn't taste good.

Kylamanalac

4.0

I took a sip of the monggo soup with my expectations set at the lowest. You can’t blame me. I took another sip, and my husband noticed how my eyes widened. Their monggo should be banned because of its extreme goodness! It’s even better than my mom’s monggo. And the waitress wasn’t lying when they told us that the tinapa is already mixed with the monggo. We could really taste the pungent flavors of the tinapa. I initially wanted to get their Bicol Express, but I decided to have their Lechon Sisig at Laing. Sisig and Laing?! IKR??!!! I am a fan of both. I am actually a fan of anything spicy and anything with coconut milk. So when the two are combined in one meal (I am also a fan of anything OILY), it’s surely a hit. The laing was good although I felt that it lacked the usual spiciness of a laing. I had to bite the red chili toppings so I could have what I wanted. The sisig was also good, but I’ve had better-tasting sisig before. I blame my high standards with food. I blame the very delicious monggo because my meal definitely paled in comparison.