R Bistro Bar

Vinah Undag

I came across this place as I was walking at Mall of Asia. I have avoided this place bec of a bad review by a relative. Am glad I went ahead and tried it. Because they accept website, we were bold enough to try. The pizza was cooked well. The four cheese pizza had honey on top which is a good surprise. Pasta was good too. We didnt like the wings, felt its too bland but otherwise everything was good.Oh and the service is superb!

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Joany Calub

We decided to try this place out for dessert because I saw the high ratings here in website. I love the interior and even the exterior of the cafe because it looked like I was taken back to Japan to have some shaved ice. This place is famous for their kakigori (or bingsu, in korean). I love their selection as someone who adores matcha, and houjicha flavors ~ anything with tea.We ordered the matcha kakigori and strawberry kakigori, and two brewed coffees. I love their matcha shaved ice, the red beans, shiratama, and green tea ice cream have the perfect sweetness to complement the shaved ice. It's not too sweet, or too bitter (as matcha tend to be). The strawberry one is okay to me. It's good, but I can probably get this in any bingsu place. The coffee is meh. Just your standard brewed coffee. I am highly impressed with their tea selection, and would love to come back for their homemade tea ice cream flavors.However, I was extremely disappointed by their service, above anything else. Almost every item in the menu is unavailable when we went. It doesn't make sense to put them there then... There were no shakes, no tea drinks aside from sencha, and they have no ice! Leaving my dad and brother with no choice, they decided to order the standard coffee instead. My brother asked if he could order brewed coffee and have ice with it, and the lady said he can't. I'm not sure why since shaved ice is made of ice, right? I don't understand how she can say they can't put ice on his coffee? Plus, she didn't inform us that we could actually stay on the other Japanese restaurant beside us, from the same owner, until we paid. When we were in the other place, we saw they serve coffee drinks, so she could've informed us that the other place has other selection.Still, will be rating this a 4 because apart from the service, the shaved ice is good.Actual rating: 3.5 - rounded up

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