Finally at Chili's Bar and Grill

I can't count how many times I wanted to eat at Chili's Bar and Grill.

It took me 2 months before I finally decided to check it out.

I and my special someone planned to have dinner in Makati.  So we did.

It was late but fortunately for Chili's on weekdays they are open till 12am. And on the weekends it opens until 2am.

I’ve always kept an eye on Chili’s Bar and Grill. I’ve been craving for it. And I’ve been forcing my boyfriend to join me. So he finally did. Thanks Love!

We love spicy food. Anything hot and spicy we both like it.

When we arrived there, we thought we had to wait to get seats since there were a lot of people were dining in. But fortunately for us, there were available seats.

I read that Chili’s started with Hamburgers. “Created as a hamburger restaurant/chili house with a uniquely Southwestern flair, Chili's served homemade- quality food, draft beer and frozen drinks in a casual atmosphere.“

I wasn’t really feeling the servers at first, specifically the ones that were assigned at the entrance. They looked tired. They looked sleepy. They were not really pleasing. Probably it was already 9pm and they were so tired that they really needed to show their guests how tired they were. And to think they were two of them that time.

So they gave us seats and took off. The girl wasn’t able to introduce to us who will be our server or what’s on the menu or anything like that. She was just too tired. Oh well she was tired. That’s it.

The place was very colorful. It was captivating. Mexican style architecture. Tables and chairs were clean as well. I loved their ceramic designed tables. Table setting is done once the customers are seated. Then server gives the menu.

Anyways, everything changed when Laine, the sweetest and kindest looking lady, who was very pleasing to look at, she was always smiling, she was very friendly, and she was very happy to serve us. Even though it was 9pm she was still active and didn’t look tired. Her clothes were clean and she looked fresh.

I told her it was our first time so she should help us what to get. She was able to provide us recommended dishes. She also explained which dish is one of their best sellers and what is a ‘must try’.

There’s a lot to choose from. From steaks to seafood you name it. They have it all at Chili’s.

Some of Chili’s Bar and Grill Specialties:

Appetizers:

Bottomless Tostada Chips310.00 - Warm and crispy tostada chips with their flavorful house-made salsa. This dish is one of many that everyone orders.

Big mouth burgers:

Big Mouth Burger Bites P360.00 - Four savory mini beef burgers with bacon, American cheese, sauteed onions and ranch dressing

Bacon Burger P350.00 - Topped with bacon, aged cheddar cheese, mayo, shredded lettuce, tomato and pickle

Old Timer P295.00 - Mouth-watering burger with mustard, shredded lettuce, tomato, pickle and onion

Add-on choices: Chili 85.00, Cheese 40.00

Desserts:

High and Mighty Pie P390.00 - Healthy candy pieces in rich vanilla ice cream, piled high on a crushed Oreo cookie crust and drizzled with caramel and chocolate sauce

Molten Chocolate Cake P390.00 - Warm chocolate cake with chocolate fudge filling, topped with vanilla ice cream under a crunchy chocolate shell.

Beverages

They have a wide selection on different kinds of drinks. wether it'd be non-alcoholic or alcoholic beverages. It's up to you!

I would recommend the Presidente Margarita P300.00 - Hand-shaken Margarita made with Jose Cuervo Gold Tequila, Grand Marnier and Brandy.

Top Shelf and Frozen Top Shelf Flavored Ritas are also one of their best sellers.

There were so many to choose from, good thing Lain was there to help us choose. She explained every dish that we ask her.

So for my drinks I ordered the Presidente Margarita. Which was absolutely amazing, I couldn’t get enough of it. It came with a tiny shaker. Then on the margarita glass they used sea salt to trace the ends of the glass. It was refreshing and obviously good! And my boyfriend got himself a bottomless Sprite which was served in a beer mug which was kind of cute.

For Starters we tried the Triple Play  P475.00 - It has their three favorite starters which are Chicken Crispers, Buffalo Wings and Southwestern Egg rolls with 3 different sauces(Honey-mustard, blue cheese and ranch) for dipping. It was worth it. I loved the chicken crispers. The Buffalo wings were very soft and tender and the egg rolls were warm and very delicious. I can’t say anything bad. A must try!

  

I got the Cajun Chicken Pasta P485.00 – This is a pasta dish with sliced Cajun-seasoned chicken breast on penne pasta with creamy Alfredo sauce, diced tomatoes, parmesan cheese and garlic toast. The spring onions were overpowering the dish. But I can taste the Cajun flavor. More sauce would probably make it perfect. The pasta was cooked al dente. I wasn’t sure with the garlic toast. It wasn’t toasted enough but its ok. I liked it that way. Chicken was grilled perfectly as well.

And as for my boyfriend. He got the Grilled Baby Back Ribs P570.00 – A Full rack of ribs which is triple-basted with the most remarkable BBQ sauce made by Chili’s, served with sweet corn on the cob and home style fries. But my boyfriend wanted rice so he replaced the fries.

Chili’s Bar and Grill offers Kid-friendly dishes as well. They accept credit cards. They also recommend calling for reservations. I’m not sure about their corkage fees though, since it is already a bar there’s no need to bring any alcoholic beverages, they probably have everything you want.

We both enjoyed our dinner. Had a few drinks. After my two servings of Presidente Margarita I ordered a on-the-rocks Khalua with cherry. And he ordered 3 bottles of San Miguel Super Dry. Which was very dry! I enjoyed the food and I was happy. It wasn’t upsetting.

The manager though didn’t check up on us but the bar was jam-packed so I guess it was alright. After a while Laine ended her shift and introduce a new server who’s name is Ken. He was always smiling and he was giving us a few jokes, which I totally appreciate. See here’s the thing a lot of servers lose the attitude of being alive and active. They lose their ability to smile to guests especially at night. They become lazy, tired-looking and eventually sleepy. Thumbs up to Laine and Ken for being so friendly! You should receive a tap on the shoulder from your managers.

Anyways, we didn’t had room for dessert which is unfortunate because I heard their Molten Chocolate Cake is to die for. Oh well probably next time. I enjoyed the food and the drinks. Our servers who were so patient and kind. Thank You very much.

I will be back, hopefully with my family. We’ll try to think of it as the next Family Fave Resto. We’ll see…

After all they say that “After all this time you'll still find that Chili's is truly like Like No Place Else.”

Eat HAPPY Everyone!!

Kwaizz miya miya!!

Yours Truly,

Zielle a.k.a Fat Girl

Chili’s Bar and Grill

Branches: Greenbelt, Greenhills and Tomas Morato

Tel. Nos.:   (02) 729-3022

Website :  http://www.chilisphilippines.com






p.s. 
I will be posting my next stop so that you guys can join me or hang out. Maybe we can agree on something.. hahaha! we'll see.. 

I hate GARLIK! do i?

"Krazy Garlik"

I am not a FAN OF GARLIC!!

once you say Garlic.. OH HELL NO! NO WAY! and you immediately see me running out the door.


I guess hating garlic came from my dad. Some people tease us as the "ASWANGS". Superticious. Blah Blah.


Anyways... Me and my friends decided to do a mini reunion. And ofcourse being obssesed with food. It was the activity of the night. EAT! EAT! EAT!


So off ot Greenbelt. We were kinda arguing if we'd go to Chilis or Krazy Garlik.


We walk passed chilis around 8pm and it was full. People were in line just to taste the unlimitted nachos.


Not that they don't need to order anything else.hahaha!


Anyways so next stop was Krazy Garlik and yes, there were still available seats. LUCKY us!


Again, Not a fan of GARLIC!


The was a receiving server.. Greeted us kindly. She was smiling and every crew was able to say hi and we were assisted to our seats. There were 3 of us. Our server named Hanie was so fragile and nice.

Kept herself intact even though people started to come in. She was able to serve us properly.

Krazy Garlik is a bistro type of resto that showcases the taste of garlic. On every dish Hanie said. Even after dining they see to it that there should be an aftertaste of garlic before and after dining in with them.

The setting was nice. I love the music. it was not too loud it was not too soft. Me and my friends were still able to hear each other. There were two tvs but we didn't really care about it since we were there for the food and we wanted to make "kwento". Tables and Chairs were clean. silverwares were incredibly shiny and clean. set up was also ok.

I was an intern before in one of the sister companies of Krazy Garlik. The group is called Bistro Group. They have Flapjacks, Fish and Co., Fridays, Billy Rock and a lot more. I know how they provide service.

They trained us well. With the service they provide they see to it that they put a smile on the cutomers' faces. They make sure that dishes are well served. Hot and ofcourse no hair strands. Hanie did a good job.

Price was almost the same with the other bistro casual dining restaurants. For me Krazy Garlik was too pricy based on the ingredients that they use it shouldn't be that expensive. Filipinos are known to love food and flavors and I can say that Krazy Garlik is one of the few that Filipinos should try but it would be sad if what's stopping them to dine in is the cost.

So enough with all the settings and service. Let's talk about food!

We asked what's their specialty and what would she recommend. Hanie was able to persuade me to try the pizza, pasta and main dish. Although we were still full at that time. I still took the risk. After all it's my first time.

For our drinks we had THE SHADOW and DRINK ME!

The size of these drinks were amazing! THEY WERE HUGE! In some restaurants I worry about the size of my drink will it fit the whole time I'm eating at that certain restaurant. So usually I end up ordering the bottomless drinks. But with these shakes. I will still be worrying about it, but not getting a new drink but how the hell am i going to finish this huge drink.

THE SHADOW (P180.00) - A mixed of dragon fruit and Vanilla, Strawberries and I believe there was a slight taste of garlic. probably a sweetened garlic or a garlic syrup. I liked the huge slice of dragon fruit. It was pink and very girlish. I really went gaga about it. Coz I like pink.

DRINK ME (P180.00)- Combination of Mango, Banana and Strawberry. Incrdible colors. I don't know how they do it. But its like a swirl of colors which made it very attractive. Its like you're thinking of sunsets and the beach.

 Appetizer - FRIED CALAMARI (P315.00) - oh yes and I've done it again.. I love fried calamari. Almost every resto I've been to, I always have the fried calamari as our appetizer. It was good. the dipping sauce has a lot of garlic flavor. there was cellery,  probably some pickles. they call it aioli dressing. nothing new though. nothing that would wow me. it is the usual taste of calamari. But i would say that it was very tender. i didn't had a hard time biting on it. It was not chewy at all. It was absolutely cooked perfectly.  

Pizza - BBQ GARLIC CHICKEN PIZZA (P450.00) - This 8 slices of pizza was sweet. I requested that the garlic flakes be put asided. And so they did. It had a BBQ sauce which was the main sauce for the crust then tiny cubed chicken breast with garlic mix marinate. A lot of Mozzarella Cheeze. The sweet BBQ sauce over powered the rest of the ingredients which was a little upsetting but I tried to sprinkle the Garlic Flakes which I don't normally do. But it's true there's always a first time. The combination of flavors were unbelievable. At first the pizza was not really ideal but when you put those crispy garlic flakes on top.. MAN YOU ARE IN FOR A BIG TREAT! The saltiness of the garlic flakes combined with the sweetness of the BBQ sauce turns into a great and over the top dish.

Pasta - FETTUCINE ORIENTE (P450.00) - Same price with the pizza. This dish is their best seller when it comes to pasta. It's tag as "Go krazy with this". This pasta was the best fettucine I've ever tasted. It was very tasteful. Sauce was incredible. If it wasn't embarrassing to lick the plate I would probably have done that! There were chinese greens which at first was kind of weird but it all went together. The mussels were fresh. Plate was warm. Fettuccine was al dente. Belissima! I would've ordered another plate but I wanted to give taste to everything first before I do that. Haha! but the next time I'll visit the resto I will surely order this one again!

Main Dish - PORK RIB ADOBO (P495.00) - This Filipino dish is not that tasty. Maybe I was looking for something more dry more garlic flavored adobo. This was more on the light flavored adobo. Perhaps to please foreign customers since Filipino adobo is more flavored. more salty. The meat was so soft. very tender! When you bite into it . it just melts in your mouth. I like the sauce. I like the roasted garlic. One thing i was looking for was more garlic. But all in all it was AMAZING! 

 

 And couldn't we be happier. The manager came to us and asked us how was our food. And obviously we have given him a thumbs up for making me LIKE GARLIC. hahaha! Kudos Mr. Georjet Guevarra.

Please forgive me if i spelled out your name wrong. but you know who you are and Thank you for the delicious and most intriguing dessert I have ever tasted ; Dessert - CREMA CATALANA (P195.00) - we got this dessert for free.. Thank you to the manager! HIGH FIVE GUYS!! Its spanish style crem brule with a twist.. The twist is candied garlic cloves.. WOOOH!! never heard that before. It still tasted the garlic although it's sweet. never thought it would match. but it was surprisingly good though.






KRAZY GARLIK what more can I see. Everything tasted garlic! i read this blog from one of the biggest blogger in the philippines. Mr. Anton Diaz. it was actually funny because he had this idea to put suggestions for the resto and in a way I agree to him. he said that it would be best if they had mouth wash in the washroom so that no one hesitates to eat a lot and worry about the after taste. And i totally agree on that. hahaha!


But I'm glad I tried KRAZY GARLIK!


And did i mention that i hated garlic. LET ME CORRECT THAT!
GOOD JOB! You changed my take on GARLIC!









Eat HAPPY Everyone!!
Kwaizz miya miya!!


Yours Truly,
Zielle a.k.a Fat Girl


Krazy Garlik
Branches: Greenbelt and Newport Mall
Tel. Nos.:   (02) 501-3752
Website : http://www.krazygarlik.com