Another restaurant with a sneaky service charge. We usually tip $10-15 but thankfully my friend saw the service charge. NOT A FAN OF IT because i was sneakily robbed $100 service charge before. BECAREFUL WHEN DINNING IN HERE!
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 4
Service: 4
Lu Neliza Gapuz
I hope this message finds you well. I am writing to express my disappointment regarding a recent experience at your restaurant. During our visit, I discovered an additional $50 tip added to my bill without my consent. This unauthorized charge increased my total bill from $240 to $290 plus (20$ cash) Unfortunately, this isn't the first instance of such unauthorized tipping at your establishment.Adding tips without customer consent undermines trust and transparency. While I appreciate good service, it's crucial to uphold fair and honest practices.I urge you to address this matter promptly and ensure that tipping remains a voluntary choice for customers.Thank you for your attention to this issue. ‼️‼️‼️
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 1
Vy Do
A fun Filipino restaurant where you can sing or enjoy people singing and have good time with your friends and family.Their food surprised me a lot, it was delicious.I was very hesitate to come because i read some bad reviews about the service but to my surprise they were very friendly and caring.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
eren
Edit: Apparently they have an automatic service charge, we were not told that at all so we basically double tipped. How greedy!They overcharge you on the bill ‼️We ordered the chicharon bituka, beef tapa, bopis, lomi, and a bowl of rice good for 3-4 ppl. According to their online menu that should amount to $104 including tax. When we asked for the bill the server only verbally said how much we had to pay, no actual bill, which should’ve been the first red flag. He said our bill was $115, so we paid that plus tip.Anyway, the food isn’t even good. Bopis was malansa, beef tapa tasted more like bistek tagalog, lomi was meh. There are much better Filipino places to go to around Bathurst, ones that serve great tasting food at reasonable prices and they don’t try to trick you with the bill. Will never go back.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 2
Service: 1
Kaye Peters
One thing I love is a mom and pops eatery. This here is definetly that. Your quaint LLBO bar, and how can you forget the fun of Karaoke. We didn't go to sing, but that would be a fun family fun outing. We enjoyed the Pancit Bihon that was made fresh to order and not to mention delicious. As our side meat we had the skewers of pork and chicken BBQ (must order min 3 skewers). The vinegar for the skewers had a little kick and that too was flavourful. won't regret the amount of skewers ordered as everything is made as shareable plates. This is little gem of a restaurant. PS...Tell AJ hi while your there a great energy that you will appreciate. PPS..Tita if your reading this, your food will still always be #1. But, this spot is YUMMY!
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Pansit Bihon
Daisy San Rafael
The worst filipino restaurant ever! The old waitress was very rude. First time to try filipino restaurant in toronto but I'm very disappointed to the old filipino lady waitress the way she talked to the customer.Napaka bastos kapwa filipino pa man din..I'd rather enjoy and waste my money next time to other restaurant in toronto kaysa sa restaurant na ito..I will not recommend this..
Rindon Nolasco
Food was pretty amazing. We ordered menudo and chicken skin.The serving was pretty generous but their pricing is more expensive than the other restaurants beside them.The chicken skin is delicious and complements beers.Their customer service is top notch and the server was courteous and helpful.Pretty good experience overall.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 5
Cristina Taloza
I always order here via uber eats sometimes they do some wrong order of mine but i always just ignore it last time they forgot to include my order of rice and last night i order chopsuey and sarabasab. Very disappointed to see this in my order. Where’s the food safety and cleanliness. Management and people on the kitchen should look for this! This is not the first time last time i ordered kare kare and the veggie got some hair i didnt took a picture cus i just said its okay but not again this time. Not worthy for the amount costumer paying
Food: 1
Shella Mae Cortez
It used to be my favorite filipino restaurant but since today not anymore!!! You guys need to renovate your place coz its very gross!!!! There's a small cockroach inside the bag that i ordered from uber eats!!!!!! So disgusting!!!! I always suggest this restaurant coz the foods are really good but not anymore im not going to recommend your restaurant again never!!!! Imagine i threw my the foods that i ordered and wasted my money!!!! Very gross!!!! Anyways no wonder if you go inside their restaurant and look around you can imagine theres a lot of cockroach!!!!! For now im not going to order again unless after they'll renovate the place and look clean and no more cockroach!!!!
Lomi -5 starsPalabok - 1 starService - 1 star, Nora the service crew is rude, very rude.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 2
Service: 1
Recommended dishes: Lomi
ΓΞЯΞSД̵ C
Food is always satisfying and homey.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Nic P.
The food was great although some dishes takes a while to be prepared which is not a problem as it shows that the place serves them freshly cooked.The inside is a bit cramped but perks is you can sing and drink alcohol.While they do have outside tents it is only for dining.For those who wants to sing make sure to come prepared with your song code in hand as the line up is sooooo long(it may not be as long on other days but weekends yes).Food and drink prices: some are priced just right and then there are options that seemed to go beyond that.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 4
Recommended dishes: Crispy Pata
Katrina Aplan
went to Toronto for a vacation and ofc I craved for Filipino food. I searched and what I found first was Republika and we went there. Decided to go to Marcelina’s instead because there’s too many people in republika restaurant. I really regret going to Marcelina’s because the food was not good and the service was very bad. It’s also very pricey, and what’s more annoying is that they charged a service fee. They should give us the option to tip because for me that depends on the service provided to you. We had a lot of leftovers because we ordered a lot, we didn't know that the food was not good and the management was bad and that is why I asked for takeout boxes. They gave us 4 small takeout box and I asked for 6. Because we had 6 different dishes. I tried to make them fit but it didn’t work so I had to ask again for another 2. They gave us small size again, I asked the old lady and it seems like she’s the owner and very rude. I told her “Why did you guys give us small take out boxes, don’t you have the regular size of those?” and she said they don’t have bigger boxes. When she gave me the 2 takeout boxes that I asked for, she told me she’s going to charged me for them. WOWWWW RIGHT?! Since when did restaurants charged for takeout boxes? Unbelievable! I didn’t want that to ruin my day so I just came back to our table and continue what I was doing. But then, I saw the table in front of us that they asked for takeout box too but what was given to them was bigger size and the one that I asked to the lady. But she said she didn’t have any of those size. What a liar!! If I could rate no star at all, I will. DON’T GO TO THIS RESTAURANT!!!
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
cathy pellejo
Pork bbq not cooked properly!(Someone need to inspect that)VERY VERY slow service.We finished eating but the water didn’t serve yet! ??
Sneaky Service
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 4
Service: 3
Another restaurant with a sneaky service charge. We usually tip $10-15 but thankfully my friend saw the service charge. NOT A FAN OF IT because i was sneakily robbed $100 service charge before. BECAREFUL WHEN DINNING IN HERE!
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 4
Service: 4
I hope this message finds you well. I am writing to express my disappointment regarding a recent experience at your restaurant. During our visit, I discovered an additional $50 tip added to my bill without my consent. This unauthorized charge increased my total bill from $240 to $290 plus (20$ cash) Unfortunately, this isn't the first instance of such unauthorized tipping at your establishment.Adding tips without customer consent undermines trust and transparency. While I appreciate good service, it's crucial to uphold fair and honest practices.I urge you to address this matter promptly and ensure that tipping remains a voluntary choice for customers.Thank you for your attention to this issue. ‼️‼️‼️
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 1
A fun Filipino restaurant where you can sing or enjoy people singing and have good time with your friends and family.Their food surprised me a lot, it was delicious.I was very hesitate to come because i read some bad reviews about the service but to my surprise they were very friendly and caring.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Edit: Apparently they have an automatic service charge, we were not told that at all so we basically double tipped. How greedy!They overcharge you on the bill ‼️We ordered the chicharon bituka, beef tapa, bopis, lomi, and a bowl of rice good for 3-4 ppl. According to their online menu that should amount to $104 including tax. When we asked for the bill the server only verbally said how much we had to pay, no actual bill, which should’ve been the first red flag. He said our bill was $115, so we paid that plus tip.Anyway, the food isn’t even good. Bopis was malansa, beef tapa tasted more like bistek tagalog, lomi was meh. There are much better Filipino places to go to around Bathurst, ones that serve great tasting food at reasonable prices and they don’t try to trick you with the bill. Will never go back.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 2
Service: 1
One thing I love is a mom and pops eatery. This here is definetly that. Your quaint LLBO bar, and how can you forget the fun of Karaoke. We didn't go to sing, but that would be a fun family fun outing. We enjoyed the Pancit Bihon that was made fresh to order and not to mention delicious. As our side meat we had the skewers of pork and chicken BBQ (must order min 3 skewers). The vinegar for the skewers had a little kick and that too was flavourful. won't regret the amount of skewers ordered as everything is made as shareable plates. This is little gem of a restaurant. PS...Tell AJ hi while your there a great energy that you will appreciate. PPS..Tita if your reading this, your food will still always be #1. But, this spot is YUMMY!
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Pansit Bihon
The worst filipino restaurant ever! The old waitress was very rude. First time to try filipino restaurant in toronto but I'm very disappointed to the old filipino lady waitress the way she talked to the customer.Napaka bastos kapwa filipino pa man din..I'd rather enjoy and waste my money next time to other restaurant in toronto kaysa sa restaurant na ito..I will not recommend this..
Food was pretty amazing. We ordered menudo and chicken skin.The serving was pretty generous but their pricing is more expensive than the other restaurants beside them.The chicken skin is delicious and complements beers.Their customer service is top notch and the server was courteous and helpful.Pretty good experience overall.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 5
I always order here via uber eats sometimes they do some wrong order of mine but i always just ignore it last time they forgot to include my order of rice and last night i order chopsuey and sarabasab. Very disappointed to see this in my order. Where’s the food safety and cleanliness. Management and people on the kitchen should look for this! This is not the first time last time i ordered kare kare and the veggie got some hair i didnt took a picture cus i just said its okay but not again this time. Not worthy for the amount costumer paying
Food: 1
It used to be my favorite filipino restaurant but since today not anymore!!! You guys need to renovate your place coz its very gross!!!! There's a small cockroach inside the bag that i ordered from uber eats!!!!!! So disgusting!!!! I always suggest this restaurant coz the foods are really good but not anymore im not going to recommend your restaurant again never!!!! Imagine i threw my the foods that i ordered and wasted my money!!!! Very gross!!!! Anyways no wonder if you go inside their restaurant and look around you can imagine theres a lot of cockroach!!!!! For now im not going to order again unless after they'll renovate the place and look clean and no more cockroach!!!!
Restaurantji Recommends
Lomi -5 starsPalabok - 1 starService - 1 star, Nora the service crew is rude, very rude.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 2
Service: 1
Recommended dishes: Lomi
Food is always satisfying and homey.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
The food was great although some dishes takes a while to be prepared which is not a problem as it shows that the place serves them freshly cooked.The inside is a bit cramped but perks is you can sing and drink alcohol.While they do have outside tents it is only for dining.For those who wants to sing make sure to come prepared with your song code in hand as the line up is sooooo long(it may not be as long on other days but weekends yes).Food and drink prices: some are priced just right and then there are options that seemed to go beyond that.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 4
Recommended dishes: Crispy Pata
went to Toronto for a vacation and ofc I craved for Filipino food. I searched and what I found first was Republika and we went there. Decided to go to Marcelina’s instead because there’s too many people in republika restaurant. I really regret going to Marcelina’s because the food was not good and the service was very bad. It’s also very pricey, and what’s more annoying is that they charged a service fee. They should give us the option to tip because for me that depends on the service provided to you. We had a lot of leftovers because we ordered a lot, we didn't know that the food was not good and the management was bad and that is why I asked for takeout boxes. They gave us 4 small takeout box and I asked for 6. Because we had 6 different dishes. I tried to make them fit but it didn’t work so I had to ask again for another 2. They gave us small size again, I asked the old lady and it seems like she’s the owner and very rude. I told her “Why did you guys give us small take out boxes, don’t you have the regular size of those?” and she said they don’t have bigger boxes. When she gave me the 2 takeout boxes that I asked for, she told me she’s going to charged me for them. WOWWWW RIGHT?! Since when did restaurants charged for takeout boxes? Unbelievable! I didn’t want that to ruin my day so I just came back to our table and continue what I was doing. But then, I saw the table in front of us that they asked for takeout box too but what was given to them was bigger size and the one that I asked to the lady. But she said she didn’t have any of those size. What a liar!! If I could rate no star at all, I will. DON’T GO TO THIS RESTAURANT!!!
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Pork bbq not cooked properly!(Someone need to inspect that)VERY VERY slow service.We finished eating but the water didn’t serve yet! ??
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 1
Service: 1