Naxional South American Diner

Tere Benedicto

3.0

I just had my dinner here tonight and booked a table thru website.I came earlier than my booking time and they still accommodated me. It was around 5:30pm when I came and there were only a few diners.I asked the staff who attended why their wifi connection is slow and he said the router is outside and I asked him if I can sit outside and he transferred me, he even opened the aircon there. What I ordered: Classic feijoada - 3.5/5. It comes with vegetable ang fruit on the side. Pollo Peruano - 3.5/5. It's good but nothing special. Nido frito - 4.5/5. I liked this one, the funnel cake was crispy, it has vanilla ice cream on top with strawberry syrup. Horchata - 3.5/5. This one is like coconut water with milk and spices, I think has cinnamon on it. Ambiance - 3.5/5Cleanliness - 4/5Customer service - 4/5Value - 3.5/5Food - 3.5/5

Eser

4.0

Met with my best friends, for our monthly bonding. We ordered a dozen of appetizers so we can wait for our other best friend.  We ordered the following appetizers:Päo de Queijo P195 Brazilian Freshly Baked Bread and Cheese Rolls/MozzarellaGuacamole & Chips P395Fresh Avocado Dip/ Sweet Potato Crisps/ Fried Plantain(banana)/TortillasElote P195Chargrilled Sweet Corn/ Chili Butter/ Mayo Lime / Crumbled CheeseThe Guacamole and chips had a pretty hefty serving and we weren't able to finish all of it. But the Guacamole for me lacked avocado, the taste of a true guacamole I know wasn't that evident. We liked the Päo de Queijo and Elote both have unique taste. Like the Päo de Queijo isn't like your ordinary cheese bread. The bread is much softer and the filling of cheese was one with the bread opposed to as it was jammed in, then melted inside. The Elote was a throwback to sweet corn from the streets except this is 10x better te mayo lime and chii butter together with crumbled cheese.was a game changer to the street sweet corn game. We kernelled our sweet corn so that it would be for sharing and didn't have the corn on the cob experience.Then came our mains which was:Picante de Pollo P330Slow Braised Chicken/ Black Beans/ Root Vegetables/ Coconut Creme/ Fried GarbanzosPollo Peruano P385Peruvian Pit chicken with corn rice/ mixed greens/ chimichurriThe Picante de pollo looked like your squid dish except it was chicken. The black color came from the black beans. Although it was slow braised chicken i found the meat to be a little too tender for me. It was good eating it at first but due to the hefty serving and the linear taste, I was kinda sick of it when I was finishing the rice.The Pollo Peruano was more of a delicious meal than the picante, the chicken was good combined with the corn rice and Chimichurri. Shouldve ordered this too instead.Food- 4/5 lots of great appetizersService 5/5 Service was prompt and they were telling us what dishes would take time.Price 3.5/5 Aside from the appetizers I found the mains too expensive. Although it has a hefty serving they couldve opted for a smalelr size as well.Ambiance 4/5 I like the aesthetic of this restaurant. It sticks out from the chain of restaurants its aligned with. it shows the latin/mexican roots of the resto.

Nira Silalahi

4.0

Rating: Highest is 5 starsPaella - 🌟🌟🌟🌟Sausages - 🌟🌟🌟 (a little salty)Pork Carnitas - 🌟🌟🌟🌟Service - 🌟🌟🌟🌟Will I recommend it? YES(Note: Vouchers are available via Metrodeal)

Aleyna Torun

5.0

Food is really good and served really quickly, despite it being almost a full house when we were there.Service is great. The staff are familiar with the menu. They are easy to talk to.Been there twice and will keep coming back until we sample the entire menu!

Nutfiye Yilmaz

1.0

Made a reservation here for Mother's day. When we arrived, no one was attending the queuing outside; i had to approach a waitress inside to ask about our table. Waited another few minutes to finally get our table.One of the reasons we chose the place was because my brother was craving for paella.. it was not available when we ordered. The dishes that say good for 2-3pax in the menu turned out to be just good for 1 but we just decided not to order more because other things we ordered were not available. I have lived in Brazil for a year so I know how Brazilian food tastes. Naxional's was not even close.We were also seated on a couch where the aircon was leaking water.Everything went wrong except for the free dessert they gave my mom for Mother's day.

Celine Rivera Arcano

3.0

Generally, when you hear "South American" one thinks a churrasca Brazilian setting. Naxional is far from that, but not necessarily in a negative way. Menu is a diverse offering of different dishes from South America, the Caribbean, and Mexico, although the flavors were not too diverse - generally grilled foods with vegetable sides "swimming" in their marinade. The Naxional Paella was good, but could be considered too oily for many. Overall, the proprietors may have overreached here and there with their menu, however, I'd give it another try. Hmm..yup a 3.0 sounds fair.

Indah Pramitasari

5.0

Our favorite place! Get the Picanha with Brazilian fried rice and charred pineapple as your sides, you won't regret it. Other favorites are Pao de Queijo and of course the Elote. I think they were one of the first ones to come out with really good Elote in Manila.

Gracepriskilla34

4.0

It was my first time to dine here at Naxional. I can't say that I don't like the place but it's kinda dark for lunch time but the ambiance was good enough to enjoy your food. I love how they plated the foods. Very instagrammable and the taste was so nice. Though my avocado shake doesn't taste like avocado, it's more on milky taste. But I would suggest the place if you are looking for somewhere you can chillax, enjoy your self after a long day at work. Thumbs up! 👍🏻

Anagrah Tian

1.0

Sunday is a family day! We're fond of eating latin, southern american, mexican food and So we got intrigued with this resto. Although we were supposed to have dinner in a filipino restaurant close by, waitlist was quite long😩 Naxional on the other hand was surprisingly deserted...hesitant, but we tried anyway. We ordered:Guacamole & chips- not the usual corn chips. mixed camote, taro, banana chips! Variety made it intersting, however the guacamole tasted a bit bitter and not that good actually. For 395? Its way expensive! Bandeja platter- PLATTER! sounds like good for sharing huh? Yes but not really! P545 not enough for 2 people and there's nothing special with its combination. Steak was meh😝, crispy pork wasn't crispy, morcilla was YUCK! smelled and tasted explicitly like raw pork meat!!!! Pardon our ignorance but bleh! Pollo Peruano- chicken was ok. Corn rice tasted like rubber slippers??? Wierd. My daughter was crying because she said its not good.Lechon asado- uh finally! We got something palatable! But not that would make us come back. Things to ponder: -Did we order the wrong food on the menu?-how come others rated the resto quite impressive?-if it's good, then why are they vacant on a sunday dinner? - overrated? 2k for a dinner that wasn't even fulfilling😢

Jille Rosé

1.0

I made a reservation on a Friday night to give our indian boss a "Latino Send off". They didnt have half of the menu available. Literally no meat, no patacones, no avocado, no pao de queijo, no mojitos no daiquiris. The few dishes they had were not good, they were far from tasting like the real thing: flautas were soggy and the meat inside was cold, the pisco sour tasteless, etc - Being a latin american myself, I was completely disappointed (together with my ten other fellow latin American colleagues visiting that same night).I felt sorry for the waiters, it was clear they were ashamed to say "not available" over and over.