Reviews Gloria Maris Shark's Fin Restaurant - Fine Dining

Food is really good, they have a lot of innovations for Chinese cuisines, service is really slow compared to the main branch in Pasay, also their 50% promo is not really a promo since the mark up is to high compared to the main branch in Pasay. Overall experience is ok but if you want more fine dining feels I suggest the best place is the main branch

It's a fine dining restaurant so expect a hefty price tag. But the cooking is 👌🏻👌🏻 my sister like the individual taro baskets i like their suahe. Always so sweet.

Had dinner here for my Mom’s birthday and it was still very consistent.The peking duck and the rest of what we had was all on point.I like the odea that they offer half a duck so that small groups can still
Have it and not forced to order a whole one.
There was a debut that was eating up about half of the space and it was noisy & we asked the staff to transfer us to the dimsum area.We got to enjoy the food better without the noise.

Definitely one of the pillars of Chinese Dining. They elevated the ambience with their big chandeliers and hotel like furnitures. You will still hear the familiar noisy chatter of a Chinese resto. Highly recommend all dishes, but very memorable for me was their salted fish fried rice, we were a group of 5 people, 4 senior, all ladies, and we ended up finishing 3 orders!

Good food . Place was big . I was with the management team and we ordered a lot . Big serving I should say . Though I haven’t really tasted a real authentic Chinese food, I think Gloria Maris is almost “authentic” . I don’t know if that makes . There’s a lot of food in the
Menu where you can choose from .

Best place for shabu shabu. broths are savory and balls are meaty and not just those that can be bought in supermarkets. Meat and veggies are also fresh. U also get to mix and match ur own sauce which is refillable. Although a bit pricey, I think you get your money’s worth!

Their fine dining here is two floors and I love it. Red carpet and everything. For their name, Shark’s Fin Restaurant, the Soup is a signature hit here. Great for family gatherings and parties. Little pricey for a table but for 12 persons, the food line up is totally worth it.

Their shabu shabu is the best. Dont forget to order the cheeseballs! It might be pricey but for our family, the price is worth it because the foods are so delish.

Definitely my favorite Chinese restaurant. I find the waiters very accommodating and helpful when my mom celebrated her 50th birthday in Gloria Maris. I love the modern yet traditional vibe of the place. In terms of food, I would give them an almost perfect score.

I loved the steamed king fish and the two-way peking duck. Put the sliced duck in the cabbage wrapper- you’ll understand the meaning of delicious. Do not forget to order their “Birthday Noodles” too. It is rich with veggies, seafood and other goodies. 4.5 is a good score.

Great ambiance but the way food were cooked is not the typical thing I was expecting. You can also improve your mode of payment. Overall great customer service.

Extremely popular, vast layout equaled by a wide menu selection. Hit or miss on the food quality. Good for big parties due to its celebratory ambience.

Always the place to go when you're craving sharks fin soup and barbecued meat dishes. Food is pricy but top notch!👍 Servers were all attentive. It's time for them to invest in a bill print out for food dishes as I had to ask the sever to read out to me dishes I ordered to counter check charges in the bill.

Fresh and delicious seafood, good service, perfect VIP room for lunch meetings. A must try restaurant. Purely chinese taste of food. Excellent

This biggest restaurant can house three weddings at at time and actually has three segments- dimsum, hot pot and fine dining. I am here for two good friends wedding and they hosted more than 50 tables.

Like almost all lauriats do, we jump started this 12 dish stretch with fine cold cuts of steamed chicken, rich flavored asado, crunchy pork belly and slimy seaweeds. This big platter got wiped out quickly.

Two Tone Seafood Soup was quite a site. A yin yang look was interesting as it tasted. The orange side was thick with rough texture while the white smooth and rather creamy. Now this was a welcome look from this tradition.

My favorite here was their Fried Pigeons. It was a bit greasy but way too tasty to notice that. I think I had 6 slices of this finely prepared meat. Besides having this poultry is a rare thing.

Steamed Lapu Lapu was another sensational dish. This fresh fish was well seasoned, its meat falls of the bone very easily. It's almost automatic to have this on your lauriat.

We also had Salted Egg Crab. The presence of salty egg was felt but would have been better if served sauce style than fried in. Flavor could have penetrated better.

For desserts, I enjoyed the Malayco or their version of puto. Its soft and sweetened perfectly. The other two we had, Coffee Jelly and Hot Taro Sago was a miss.

Back then, we always had our family gatherings here. This place is definitely one of the most sophisticated fine dine Chinese restaurant I have been to, and will probably recommend this place for large gatherings.

The menu presents you variety of fresh viands, from their Lobsters and Peking duck. Definitely a must try especially for Chinese-food lovers out there!

I am used to eating Chinese lauriat; in fact my whole life I am regularly eating Chinese lauriat. Just this year (2016) I have eaten Chinese lauriat four times already and February isn't even halfway done. The 8-10 course lauriat meal is usually served during special occasions like Christmas, New Year, weddings, anniversaries, birthdays and other big events. Lauriat actually comes from the hokkien word "lao diat" which means special occasion. Lauriat is how it is commonly called but in Chinese families we call it "pan toh" (literally meaning serve table).

When speaking of authentic and scrumptious Chinese cuisine, Gloriamaris stands out among the rest. 😊 Food is excellent! I love everything we ordered. 👍🏻 Its famous Peking Duck One-Way Skinning Wrapped in Momo Wrapper with Onion Leeks is always SUPERB and A Must Try! 😄

Gloria Maris Shark's Fin Restaurant is this famous restaurant in Greenhills that generated a number of loyal patrons and customers from the Chinese community. And now, they decided to expand and relocate to a bigger place and accommodate a bigger and wider market of foodies both from the Chinese and non-Chinese community.

It's been a while since my last visit, but my favorites here are the Fried Crab with Salted Egg, Peking Chicken Salad, and Scallop and Shell Meat with French Beans and Radish.

Also, don't dare miss their classic taho.

Spent my
Sunday lunch dining here for my nephew’s birthday party. Food served was very
delicious and I was surprised how modern they serve the dishes that is not
common in Chinese Restaurants. Excellent service and function rooms they offer
for events. I'd recommend this restaurant to anyone looking for great Chinese
cuisines.

This is for me one of the best Chinese restaurants. They have a couple of branches around I believe but the quality is not the same. Best to go to their Greenhills branch. Their taro puff, hakaw and other dimsum is made fresh and they don't scrimp.

Spent my Saturday afternoon dining here with three of my friends. We mostly ordered dimsum - from siomai, hakao, fried taro puffs, and more. We also got the hot and sour soup. Impeccable service and delicious dimsum offerings. I'd recommend Gloria Maris to anyone looking for great Chinese cuisine.

Really appreciate it when an establishment takes that extra effort to uplift it image. Nowadays, you have to keep rebranding to keep up with the trends. Gloria Maris did just that it's fine dining restaurant.
This branch is considered under fine dining that serves delicious food. It offers a lot of authentic chinese cuisine Chefs from China. We arrived just after attending the mass. We came first to the area where hot pot and dimsum were located, and to our surprised that there was a long queue for dinner at Dimsum area. We approached the staff to inquire and there you go.. we were headed to the fine dining area.
The venue is really spacious, separated from Dimsum and Hotpot. The staff who assisted us with our orders are very courteous, kind and with all smiles. They provided the food promptly and yes, I was surprised that it all exceeded my expectation and suited for a fine dining. The pork was tender, juicy and saucy. The taro puff with shrimps are the best. We actually love everything from the ambiance, staffs, every single detail of the food is delectable and savory.
I once searched that when you are in fine dining, you can cross order to Dimsum and hot pot.
We are really coming back for more dishes. It is highly recommendable.
Must Try:
Dimsum
Hakaw
Mango Sago
Parking can be difficult near the restaurant. And it's normally full on weekends. Suggest reserving prior.

One of our fave Chinese restaurant with my in laws 😋 Great choices of food, they serve it the best that actually fills up more than what we expect and you always get what you paid for ;)

Our all time favorite shabu-shabu restaurant. I like the ambience even if most times the floor is slippery coz of oils i think. But the shabu-shabu taste the same. It's pricey than others but its worth it. Great sunday dinner with my bf that made us full. He love the fookien balls and the meatballs.

Somewhere is Greenhills, San Juan
I bet you will surely find the one
The one restaurant you have been searching for
Your faith in dimsum it will restore

Dive into the finest Chinese soup
Make space in your stomach for a recoup
Forget your diet as you dine with ease
Bring along your family if you please

I love dining in Gloria Maris! The ambiance is beautiful because it's so big, the interiors are so classy, and everything really makes you feel like you're in a high-class/ fine-dining restaurant. There's a wide variety of Chinese dishes and platters, and a lot of yummy dimsum here too! The dim sum platter is so good. Aside from this, the Beef Brocolli, Sweet and Sour Pork, and fish dishes are good too. It's the perfect place to dine with here family, especially if you're in for a big meal!

Had Lunch with family. The place is huge. It's a typical Chinese resto, Food is good, Fresh vegies. I love their Taho. Definitely will be going back😊

We've been eating here since I was just a little girl. I love this place, never failed to impress me! We eat here for almost every occasion and the fact that I never once got tired of their food is a true testament to the flavors of their food. Btw, since relocating, the ambiance just got way better! :)

the ala carte and private room dinning of this Gloria maris branch at greenhills is outstanding, they have kept their recipe well since the 1980s at the back of CCP, what i also like is the ambiance of this majestic restaurant, the arrays and design of rooms upstairs, and their service, the lapu lapu steamed and de boned, peking duck and suckling pork which we really gauge it is more than average bordering exquisite taste, what i feel disappointed is  the lobster salad too fruity, less lobster meat,

First time to eat century egg and it was soooo good! Pinky swear ;-) The place was huge and you would mistaken it as a hotel hahaha ;-) the staffs were polite and helpful :-)

Gloria Maris is one of the top choices of Chinese families for special occasions. Like any other Chinese families, my family loves to go to Gloria Maris when we have family gatherings. Ever since i was small, i remember going in and out of this restaurant for different occasions. Today is not a different story. We had a first birthday party celebration there and had the typical dishes we order there. Although not everything we ordered is yummy for me, but i always love going to Gloria Maris for celebrations like this. We had a great host and we had fun games which i really enjoyed. I also saw new dishes like the abalone with sea cucumber, two-tone soup, jelly fish salad, something that looks like a big xiao long bao, and the almond yogurt with lychee dessert. Not everybody will appreciate the dishes served there, but some will appreciate it. I personally do not like the sea cucumber because it didn't taste like anything. Although i was forced to eat it because my grandmother said that it is good for the bones or something like that.

But overall, Gloria Maris is and will forever be one of my favorite Chinese restaurants.

GLORIA MARIS Restaurant, specifically the one in Greenhills, is our all-time favorite go-to place for authentic Cantonese food in Manila since 1995. My wife's Chinese family likes holding their special celebrations here, and I love the yummy consistency of their food every single time.

Last year, Gloria Maris moved to a new location with an impressive fine dining ambiance and an introduction of modern Cantonese cuisine to take the dining experience to a whole different level.

Here's our modern fine dining experience at Gloria Maris Greenhills:

Gloria Maris relocated to a bigger 7,500-sqm area along Missouri Street corner Connecticut. It is still beside the Greenhills Shopping Center near Promenade.

The restaurant is now divided into five areas:

The first area is the Hotpot Dining, located on the ground floor at the back of the building.
The second area is the Dimsum Dining Area, located on the ground floor in between the Hotpot area and the Fine Dining area.
Next is the Main Dining Room, which is the centerpiece of the restaurant, located on the ground floor. It has a high ceiling that's two storeys high and has a view of the grand staircase
It has a capacity of 40-45 lauriat tables with a lazy susan in the middle. It can fit up to 540 persons. It is open daily for lunch from 11:00 am to 2:30 pm and then dinner from 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm.
The Banquet Hall is located on the second floor. With its hotel-like ambiance and great Chinese food, it is perfect for weddings and grand occasions.
It can hold three simultaneous functions, has a total capacity of 100 tables, and can accommodate up to 1200 persons
For intimate and special private gatherings, reserve one of the VIP Rooms located at the Mezzanine level.
The VIP area features 13 well-furnished rooms that can have up to nine tables in one room. A total of 300 persons can fit there.

We celebrated Father's Day there with my Dad and Dad-in-law, together with the boys.

Instead of ordering from the set menu, I suggest you assemble your own lauriat menu line-up. Here's what we like from the Gloria Maris Fine Dining choices and some tips on off-menu items:

APPETIZERS:
My favorite appetizer is the pickled young ginger with slices of century egg. The flavor contrast surprisingly works! :)
My next pick: the caramelized walnuts with sesame seeds.
You can also request for plain roasted nuts to jump-start your appetite.

DIMSUM:
Hakaw - Since cross-ordering from the Dimsum Menu is allowed, we like ordering hakaw for our matatakaw boys who can finish one basket each.
Shanghai Siao Long Pao - The siao long pao is also a good alternative with its yummy soup inside.

TIP: Make sure to order XO sauce with scallops and chili to enhance any dish. :)

SOUP:
You can choose from two cool soups that we like:
Two-Tone Almond Seafood Soup - The first one is almond soup with pumpkin, presented in a cool yin yang style.
Even when served, you can have the contrasting soup flavors with lots of seafood bits inside.

Boiled Whole Winter Melon Seafood Soup - For a healthier soup, order the winter melon soup that is served in an actual winter melon container. CREATIVE STARTERS:

CREATIVE APPETIZERS:
Chiu Chow Cold Cuts Combination - If you are tired of the usual Chinese cold cuts, try this modern version served with lechon kawali, duck slices, salmon sashimi, california maki and fried seaweed sashimi. I love combining them -- ex. seaweed sashimi plus the the duck slices.
Also, if you like the seaweed, you can request to replace the lechon kawali slices with it.

3 Kinds of Seafood - Eel with cider, Prawns with wasabi, Scallop with egg white.
If you have a smaller intimate group, I suggest this degustation-like serving of scallop, fried prawns, and eel. Each spoon is a flavorful interpretation and a teaser for more yummy food.

Duck with Fruits - For a modern Chinese salad, I suggest you order this. At first, it may seem like a weird hodgepodge of ingredients but once you mix it, the watermelon and mango flavors provide a refreshing twist to the sweet cream base with duck meat, balanced with the nuts.
Sarap! One of my interesting new discoveries. :)

Mini Taro with Prawns & Scallops - Here's a cool new interpretation of mini Taro baskets with plump fresh shrimp and scallops. We love the presentation of the mini-sculpture of a prosperity dragon made of salt alongside the mini-egg nests.
The taro is fried but not oily, and it's best eaten with its special sauce.

Patola Asst. Mushroom & Black Fungus with Shredded Dough Fried Taro Seafood - Here's another favorite of ours: Fried taro wrapped in fried fine noodles served with mushrooms.

TIP: It's best to order only 1-2 fried items in your lauriat menu so that it won't be as filling and nakakasuya.I like this soup because of its cleaner taste, generous amounts of seafood bits, and impressive presentation.

TIP: Consume the soup immediately after it is served. Best while it is hot!

MAIN DISHES:

Peking Duck 2 Ways - For special occasions, get the duck served in two ways. I love their Hong Kong duck, which is carefully cooked with the good layer of fat under the skin.
The first way is to slice the crispy skin and wrap it with vegetables and sweet hoisin sauce.
Each piece is flavorful with the crispy duck skin and a little bit of fat sweetened by the hoisin sauce.
The second way is usually diced duck meat with diced vegetables served on a cabbage and topped with a sweet sauce. I love the presentation with the sweet Tweety bird this time.

Pata Misua - My wife loves the usual Pata Tim, but this version is served with misua. This one is good if you like having a rich sauce with the soft pata meat.

Yang Chow Fried Rice - Their Yang Chow fried rice is a complete meal in itself. It has generous bits of meat and seafood. Make sure to order rice to pair with the meat dishes.

SEAFOOD MAIN DISHES:

Fried Lapu-Lapu with Noodles (P2,400 +10% service charge - Large, good for 12). I love having fish as part of the set menu, and I certainly recommend this. The bones and the skin are fried and served with steamed fish fillet pieces that you can eat with noodles.
I like the white egg sauce that you put on top of the fish meat. It's best eaten with a little bit of noodles and vegetables.
You can't go wrong with fresh seafood that is harvested and cooked upon order.

Steamed Flat Lobster with Garlic - For grand celebrations, you can order this flat lobster with fresh meat, served with soy garlic flavors.

Fried Crab with Salted Egg - For a more unique and indulgent treat, order this. It's the first time I've eaten fried crab with a salted egg coating. :) Sarap!
We couldn't help but eat every little bit of the crab, especially since it was so flavorful and not too salty.

Fried Prawns with Fish Fillet - If your group likes prawns, order this dish that has fried prawn heads with prawn meat and fish fillet. It was OK, but I couldn't quite understand why it was presented that way.

DESSERTS:
If you want your desserts to have a grand entrance, make sure to ask for them to be served on dry ice.

Buchi - The Buchi is served with heart-shaped Ube Gelatin on a bed of smoky dry ice.
The boys went crazy with the dry ice effect and couldn't get enough of the buchi as well. :)

Pumpkin Pie - Another wonderfully presented dessert is the pumpkin pie in the form of mini-pumpkins served also with dry ice. As for the taste, it gets mixed reactions because of the sweet lotus paste inside. Plus, it has a chewy, dimsum-like texture.

Birthday Lotus Pao - For birthday occasions, don't forget to order the lucky Birthday Paos.
The bread is really soft, shaped like a fortune cookie, with sweet lotus paste and a slice of fruit inside.

Mango Sago - Sometimes, the boys want to stick to their favorites, like this mango dessert with bits of sago.

Hot Taho - In almost every Gloria Maris visit, we make sure to order our most-loved dessert: assemble-your-own-taho.

Overall, I love the home-grown Cantonese yumminess of Gloria Maris and how it has been consistent with the same Hong Kong chefs over the years. I love the new Gloria Maris ambiance and the modern Cantonese dining menu.

We usually eat lauriat-style everytime there's a family celebration with my wife's family, and Gloria Maris still tops the list of Chinese Restaurants we have tried over the years in the metro.

Make sure to reserve one of the VIP rooms, to assemble your own lauriat menu, and to select the dishes with the cool presentation.

They are open all year round -- even on Christmas Day and Holy Week -- but don't forget to make reservations because they get FULL, especially during peak special occasions.

Taho, a local snack made of silky tofu or bean curd with sago (mini tapioca pearls) and sweet caramelized sugar syrup, is an iconic and ubiquitous street hawker food that remains popular to this day. This popular comfort food traces its origins in Chinese influences, and has since become a mainstream favorite for generations. But catching a Taho vendor on the road is a hit or miss thing, so its really comforting to know you can have this treat at Gloria Maris anytime you want it.

The bean curd is smooth and served hot. Very comforting and familiar, the Taho or Tau Hue served at Gloria Maris is a delicious treat that brings back so many memories. One order is good for 2-3 servings. The Taho is served in a wooden tub, with small bowls containing the sago and sweet caramelized sugar syrup. The fun part is making your own bowl.

You can also find more traditional Chinese selections at Gloria Maris. I went for the Shrimp Dumpling Noodle Soup. Hearty and filling, nothing like a hot noodle soup. And yes, they do have a good dim sum selection as well, There's the Kutchay (Garlic Chive) dumpling with minced pork and vegetables. The Bird's Eye Dumpling with Shrimp and Asparagus. and the popular Prawn Dumpling.

Good Chinese food and excellent value for money. Plus, they serve Taho anytime you feel like it. Now that's pretty cool.