Today for lunch, Epril and I went to La Roma restaurant, located at the intersection of A. Roma and Corrales Streets. Go to the intersection on the main highway in front of Gasiano Shopping Mall, and that's Corrales Street. Go back towards downtown one block, and turn East (left) onto the first main street (A. Roma Street), and it is immediately on your right.The restaurant is a simple, middle-of-the-road eatery, with fair decor. It has glass walls on 2 sides, and gets a nice amount of light. The staff is friendly, but it was a little hard to get their attention at times, especially considering Epril and I were the only customers in the restaurant.
Thursday lunchtime is listed on the Yahoo CDO Expatriate Group as an expatriate get-together, but when we got there, we were the only ones in the place. It could be due to it being Holy Week here in The Philippines, as the reason why nobody showed up. I'm not sure.
The menu has a breakfast page, a nice burger selection, several dinner platters, pizza, pasta, et cetera. They seemed to have a nice selection, but their menu is covered with little blank pieces of paper where dishes used to be listed, but are obviously no longer available. The entire Mexican menu (except for chili fries) is blank. I suppose it is more a matter of La Roma's supply of ingredients causing these blanks than anything else, and in a town like Cagayan that is to be expected. Still though: It's frustrating to see that Mexican food might have been available, but I can't have any.
Chili fries, 90 pesos.
Lasagna, 95 pesos.
Pork steak, 150 pesos.After being denied a banana shake and a chocolate shake, I finally settled on a vanilla shake, which was very good, if a bit small in serving size. (A small and large shake would be a nice menu addition.) I had a single serving of lasagna for 95 pesos ($2.30) which was fair in taste and a pretty good size for the price, and an order of chili fries, which was surprisingly large, covered with meat chili and melted cheese, for 90 pesos (or so... can't remember exactly). Epril had a pork steak for 150 pesos ($3.75) which was quite a good size for the price. I introduced Epril to a root beer float for dessert, and the manager gave us 2 complimentary pieces of chocolate cake.
Overall, La Roma is a pretty good restaurant compared to what I've seen on offer in Cagayan De Oro. The food I had was perfectly acceptable, and I'm going to go back to try the burgers (ranging in price from 70 to 140 pesos) and various other items on the menu. The price is very reasonable compared to what I normally found in Thailand, and the serving sizes are pretty good.
3 comments:
Food looks absolutely dreadful. Guess there is something you already miss about Pattaya.
Just got me a 1 year visa so I'll be sticking around enjoying the 'good life'
It was good food.
It wasn't outstanding, and in Pattaya, I would give the place a thumbs down against the 40 or 50 other Italian restaurants, or 40 or 50 other burger joints, or 40 or 50 other places that sold hearty breakfasts available there against which this place would be competing.
But, this is Cagayan, and you have to be a little more lenient and forgiving for failing to create picture-perfect meals: In some instances, without the availability of the proper ingredients, or cost prohibition, it's simply impossible.
After looking at the lunch menu and what you consumed, I think I know why you got an upset tummy..
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