this place closed a while back, ate 1 time too greasy for me
Luis M.
Classificação do local: 4 Sebastopol, CA
Finally. A filipino place in Santa Rosa. I’ve been there three times. Before I continue, I have to mention that I am filipino, so I’m definitely going to have some biases. The first time, I had the adobo. Actually, the first and third times I had adobo — the first time chicken, the third time pork. This adobo is good, although it’s not as good as mine. There’s some sweetness to this adobo, which I’m not a big fan of, but I still ate it and loved every moment of it, because it is adobo after all. The pork was better than the chicken. The meat was cut to the perfect size and was adequately saturated with the goodness only adobo can bring. You get a little lumpia and rice with it. I’ve never been that big of a fan of lumpia, and this lumpia is pretty typical. I wish it were better though, sort of like the egg rolls at Simply Vietnam. But oh well, it’s lumpia. The second time I went, I went for breakfast. I got exactly what I was hoping they would serve: garlic rice, eggs, and meat(I chose chicken). Sooo friggin’ good! This definitely reminded me of home(Southern California). Oh yeah, me and my girlfriend got some halo-halo there too. It was good. I’m not a big fan, mostly because I don’t like beans in my desert, but luckily this didn’t have alot of that so it was worth having. A strange thing happened where the waitress asked me if I was filipino and I said yeah, so she started talking to me in tagalog which I understand but don’t speak, and then in the middle of my meal she asked me if my girlfriend was filipino, but c’mon, she’s obviously caucasian. I looked at my girlfriend to try to figure out what exactly about her could possibly be mistaken as filipino, and I found absolutely nothing. I mean, she’s Irish. Four stars because I feel less lonely now that there’s a filipino restaurant in Santa Rosa.
Samanta V.
Classificação do local: 4 Petaluma, CA
After driving all over creation tonight for Pupusas(what’s up with all of them being closed on Monday nights?) I headed back to my hood in search of something different, and remembered that Trisha’s had opened a few months ago. So my dining companion and I gave it a go. 1) the Lumpia is excellent — the sweet chili sauce was perfect. 2) the fresh lumpia with pork, was also very tasty and HUGE. We were almost full before we got everything else. 3) the Ukoy was good. I have never had it before(a vegie fritter of sorts topped with fried shrimp) so I have nothing to compare it to, but light, not greasy and very well made and HUGE for the size. 4) our main entrees consisted of the Pancit canton for me — which was incredible(pancit for those who don’t know is a filipino style chowmein) and my dining companion had the Pancit Palabook(rice stick noodles, ground pork, fried shirmp and calamari in a savory sauce) which was ok. Oddly both servers came to our table suprised after we ordered that — asking how it was, and both disclosed later that they thought the fresh shrimp paste made it taste a little fishy… THANKS for that info later. For dessert we split the FBR fried banana roll topped with ice cream — and well, how can you go wrong with anything fried with Ice Cream? I am very much looking forward to coming back to try the Long Beans and squash in coconut milk(Sitaw at kalabasa) and also the sauteed bitter melon with ground pork and scrambled eggs. on an aside — they serve filipino breakfast –which includes several different meat jerky’s, rice and eggs. THAT will be a stop on my breakfast route in the near future. the lemonade was very sugary, and that I would pass on next time, but everything else was delicious. They had a great crowd for a Monday night(maybe all those people too were out looking for pupusas) and the service for as busy as they were was decent. I am looking forward to returning for more menu items soon.