Still an all time fave. Love their general’s chicken and gising gising. Almost everything on their menu are good specially those marked with a star which means “All Time Favorites”.
Delicious: Chicken Sotanghon Soup, Lumpia Toge, Generals Chicken, Bangus Belly Steak and the Rice!
Price : Affordable!
Service: Good
Will try their other dishes next time.
Too hungry or tired to try new places? Recipes in Greenbelt has been my fail-proof fave since 2008. There's comfort in knowing that the taste and portions of the General's Chicken, Lechon Kawali with Kangkong, Crispy Tilapia, Gising Gising, and Vegetable Kare Kare remain superb. Even the service and cleanliness remain topnotch, which makes it my fave branch :)
Affordable and tasty, their food deserves five stars. We always order gising-gising (without meat), and the quality has always been consistent. It’s one of the few Filipino restaurants that separate the meat from the vegetables, so vegetarians get to enjoy Pinoy favorites like kare-kare and gising-gising sans the meat.
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I was here 2/15/2019
I was out with a friend and basically didn't have any idea of where to go so my friend suggested Recipes.
First off, the ambience, we had dinner inside. I'm not entirely sure if they did have outdoor seating. It's not special inside and sometimes the kitchen gets noisy. You can't blame them, kitchenware could be a bit clanky when banging to each other. But basically, this is the only cons I have other than they don't take debit, only credit cards.
The food, we ordered the Kare-kare and General's chicken as per my friend's advice since she loves this place.
The kare-kare wasn't what I expected it to be. The sauce is quite thin or rather soup-like. Unlike the normally thick kare-kare sauce. Although my friend mentioned that it's not normally how they served it. So it would've been better if they served it at its best. Other than the texture of the sauce, it was a good kare-kare.
The General Chicken, OMG. I was expecting like the traditional chicken with bones and everything. This is different, I don't know what it is they did but it tastes good. It's like sweet but also the breading of the chicken matched perfectly together. Well blended and well marinated. Tasty from the outside and the inside. These are served like Chicken popcorn-ish. So no bones at all, which is exactly how I like flavoured chickens.
As for the price per taste, definitely worth it. I'd have to say I would've easily given it a 3 just coz of the lack of ambience. But having to know that they've made a great come back for me with the great food, especially I'd like to highlight General's Chicken, you wouldn't even mind the place. Great food and definitely worth the price.
Forget to mention above so I'll just add it here, we each had 1 cup of rice only and we were full. Rice serving is actually not enough for me, but with the right consumption, it is satisfying. Personally, my belly is asking for 2 rice but that would be like 'if I was eating for heavy dinner' kind of thing.
Overall, will definitely go back and try their other meals but I will always go back just for the General's Chicken.
PS
If they can at least ensure that the kitchen noise won't be heard while dining, I may consider giving it a 5 next time around. For now, it's a strong 4. (Coz apparently I'm unable to give 4.5 for some reason)
We ate at Recipes and availed the BOGO promo of booky prime for general's chicken. The chicken was tasty and crunchy while the eggplant added another layer of texture in the dish - which is great! Gising gising, on the other hand, was plain and lifeless. Seafood rice is just ok, with little pieces of shrimp and squid, and kind of oily. General's chicken was the highlight of the night!
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With prices of basic commodities on the rise, inflation at an all time high, my stock investment contracting and other investments earning minimally, living on interest is a thing of the past. I am now actively looking for deals, deals even with food that would stretch the value of my peso.
Good thing, there is the booky promo for buy one, get one free! (Zomato will launch its own gold tomorrow, 16 November with its own deals, woohoo...but I am not on the initial list boohoo):). I like it when restaurants list as promo their best selling items, in Recipe's case, the General's Chicken at P250 and get another one free! There are others that would just join to be in the list but giving out their slow movers..hayyy. We partnered it with another best seller, their Crispy Tilapia and two cups of plain rice.
General's Chicken is a good blend of sweet and spicy. The breaded chicken is crunchy and is perfectly paired with roasted sliced eggplants. The tilapia is filleted then fried. The fillet pieces are decoratively placed on top of the breaded fish body. Likewise breaded and perfectly crisped, the accompanying sauce turns it into a star. The sauce made of soy sauce and vinegar then mellowed by sugared water with some lime juice and chili highlights the delicate flavors of the fish.
I really enjoy eating when the food is delicious and I'm getting a good deal.
My first time here for Filipino food.
Had crispy Tilapia and Sinigang soup..
Very pocket friendly for sure. Their serving a big good for sharing and food authentic and good quality. Good ambiance too.
Loved it will try them again during my next visit. Will upload pics still haven’t got them.
We were the first group of indian’s dinning out there.
One of the best Filipino resto in Manila. Food are sumptious, you should try kare-kare, sinigang, escabeche and kangkong with liempo - busog lusog, we also ordered their signature bagoong to-go (ung bagoong talaga ung panalo). The only downside is they served in small portion, we ordered the food that is good for two, but the serving looks like it is only good for 1 person especially the escabeche, buti nalang mahina kumain ung friend ko 😄😄😄
Surprisingly good food. We ordered their classic chicken bowl, sinigang, and gising-gising, among others. It is one of those rainy days' go-to place to have a comforting Filipino meal in the middle of the city.
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