UCC Café Terrace

Hazel Chua

4.0

If there is anything that I look forward to as a website, it has to be attending food crawls with other food enthusiasts like me. There's just nothing better than being able to try various restaurant offerings in one long stretch. I was part of one recently here in Westgate, Alabang. It's about an hour 40 drive up south from the metro, which was a welcome thing given what we had. So every year, Westgate Center invites bloggers and members of the press to experience for themselves different cuisines showcased by their tenants. This time around, Alba's, Butamaru, Brother's Burger, Neil's Kitchen, Melo's, and UCC Park Cafe joined in. As you should all know, Westgate is actually an open-air venue, occupying about 9.2 hectares of space. It provides a huge space for dining and relaxation, perfect for those who love to hop from one food joint to another.So for this particular post, I would like to share with you what I had at the UCC Cafe, our last stop. UCC is primarily a coffee place that gives you and I a full length of Japanese choices as well, that their delicious way. For starters, we were served their Cheese and Spinach (Php 280). This is made up of pureed spinach, mixed with bechamel and melted cheese. The combinations were creamy appetizing and filling. Chorizo de Bilbao (Php 350) was next, a sautéed Spanish chorizo starter with strong flavor, paired appropriately with plain toasted bread.What I particularly liked too much was their Sumiyaki Unagi (Php 400). This cream based spaghetti is topped with generous portions of eel, marinated Japanese way and filled with nori strips and seasoned mushrooms. It's a nice concoction of East meets West, savory with a touch of endearing sweetness. Since I was already full at this point, I wasn't able to try the other offerings by UCC. But I still took two spoonfuls of their take of our Champorado. It was done wonderfully, with a strong dark chocolate matched with honey and fresh milk. It is lactose free, gluten free, and rich in fiber. You may actually even order Tuyo to go with it. As for the other media friends with us, they had Rice Casserole (Php 400), which is curried rice pilaf baked with white sauce and mozzarella cheese. It is topped with one's choice of Chicken Teriyaki, Japanese Hamburg or Classic Spanish Callos. They also got to try the Kani Mango Salad (Php 320), which is made up of mixed lettuce, mangoes, cucumbers, tomatoes, almonds, ebiko, parmesan shavings, egg, and kani, served with Japanese dressing. There's also the Bacon Aglio Olio Peperoncino (Php 240), which is pasta with sauteed fresh garlic bacon in olive oil with crushed red peppers and parsley. From the satisfied look on their faces, that spoke happy stories. Now for some caffeine. My close media friends and I had Kori Kohi (Php 220), an artistic creation of iced coffee cubes, served with your choice of warm milk, Almond Roca (Php 180), their iced blended cream base almond flavored coffee and their Mocha Jelly (Php 180) which is chocolate blended espresso with coffee pieces, milk, and ice, topped with whipped cream. These beverages brought as back to life after being sleepy with all the food. Have you been to a crawl like this yet? It's worth trying. It does need training too, you see.

Toto

4.0

I actually like almost everything in UCC franchises but this one is lost. I felt gloomy around the area. I think they should relocate nearer to any mall. When you go outside, it feels like there are barely any people around. Or may be it’s because I’m just not from the South. Almond Roca + French Vanilla was really good though.

Lalaine Yu

4.0

This branch of UCC is one of the few dessert places we visit when we have family get togethers. A must try is their french toast, and their bts cake. They have generous servings and great servings. Pair that with their pour over coffee.

Müzeyyen Sönmez Güzey

4.0

My friend and I decided to meet up at UCC Cafe for breakfast. We ordered different food so we could try it since it was both our first time to this place and check if it’s worth visiting. I must say the food was really something I would be happy to pay for but if they could reduce the pricing a little bit then I would highly recommend this place to all of my friends.

Fernando Grasparil Laguda

5.0

we had a great brunch before our flight. 😩 pasta is life! must try. 😋 the place at that time had only few people. 😊 after our meal, we had coffee and tea. ✨

Annelia Lee

4.0

This branch has always been our go-to place for early morning and late night cravings for times when we’re unsure what to order yet confident that it’ll always be worth it. Our favorite? The Toffee Hazelnut Iced Brendo Coffee which is a staple of our bills.What I would wish more? Maybe a li’l more proactiveness from the staff to get the best customer experience possible. It ain’t that bad though. Would still recommend this place!

Bradlee

3.0

For dinner I had the teriyaki chicken and pumpkin soup is fine but it took me 15 minutes to get a server just to take my order. In general I probably will not go back to this place because of the service.

Beary Hungry

3.0

Having experienced dining in various ucc cafes, I had high expectations when I went inside UCC Filinvest. The cafe being in an upscale neighborhood upped the expectations a little more and thus this explains why I was a little bit disappointed when I came to his branch. The service was not thay good, it took 20 minutes for me to get a cup of sumiyaki coffee which tasted a little over burned (despite it having the hints I liked) in the charcoal roast that it grew famous for. The halo halo cake was an interesting and perplexing dessert. The consistency of the sponge was top notch, the halo halo filling however blended well, too well.in fact that you thought you were eating pureed halo halo stuffed in a sponge bread. The crew were excellent though in other aspects even esctoring us to our card with an umbrella when we suddently forgot hours.

Ayu Siti Maryam

4.0

After jogging around, I decided to stop by this cafe to eat breakfast. I ordered French toast and caramel frappe. The place was so cozy, not much people coz it was still early that time. The service was okay, the French toast was nice, even the caramel frappe was nice.

Dian Anisa Putri

4.0

Can be a bit pricey but the servings are big so you are still getting your money's worth. I've tried their Omurice with Shiitake and Lengua and I never ordered anything else in their menu hahah! I also personally like their brewed milk tea. They are located in Westgate so no parking problems for us. Service is efficient and all of our orders were served at the same time. Great way to start our day!