Kalye Uno

So today I decided to eat at Kalye Uno. It's not my first time to eat at Kalye Uno but I have never blogged about it. So what's Kalye Uno?

Kalye Uno is a fast food restaurant. It's not as big as Jolllibee, or KFC, or any of those franchises. I don't even know if there are other branches besides the one near my office. Like most fast food restaurants, it's self-service. 

By the way, my office is located at Bridgetowne. It's at the edge of Quezon City. Almost at Pasig City. 

For the main menu, first you choose whether you want your meal with rice or on a taco. Then you choose what your meal is. I'm sorry but I usually just order Garlic Longanisa and nothing else. But I'm sure there's Daing na Bangus since I just saw it on the menu board because it's new. I think there's Tapa as well.

They also have Sisig, and Nachos with some awesome dressing. I think Garlic Longanisa bits are one of the toppings. I'm pretty sure I tasted some.

Price range, it right around double the price of a regular meal at Jollibee. A two-piece chicken is not a regular meal, by the way. Just by how often I eat there is proof that it's not cheap, but not expensive either. How many times have I eaten there since it opened? Around five times, I guess. I just eat there when I have the craving for Garlic Longanisa.

This branch is located right in between Zeta and Exxa Towers at Bridgetowne. Just beside Subway, but Subway's in the outside of the main entrance. Kalye Uno is inside. Just across Mini Stop. 

Mesa Philippines

After a company event, one of our bosses gave us a tread at a restaurant called, Mesa. This branch we ate at is located at the third level of Robinson's Galleria just beside Kenny Roger's Roasters. I remember seeing one at SM City Lipa and SM Fairview if I'm not mistaken. As for other branches, you better do a Google check. They are better known as Mesa Philippines. Although a search for 'mesa' would still point to them for now. You'll never know in the future, it might bring you to a search result for tables.

This restaurant serves food that is covered by BFAR (Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources). For those who know me, I am not very fond of crustaceans and mollusks because I have an allergic reaction to those kinds of foods. So as they were serving the feast, I could not help but just look since I could not eat most of them; shrimp on century egg, steamed shrimp, fried squid on oyster sauce, some sort of sisig that I definitely do not know what's in it, lumpia that I wasn't also sure what's wrapped inside it.

It was a feast that I couldn't really partake wholeheartedly. Then came the tilapia. At last, fish. I'm fine with fish. Why don't they have tuna or mackerel or sardines. They took out at least three platters of fried tilapia. The flesh was already fried and the bones (with a little flesh left over was fried and shaped into what seemed to be a heart. It came with four condiments; alamang (I think that's fish paste), vinegar, sweet and spicy sauce, and one that I did not bother trying. And yes, I took one whole platter and claimed it my own.

It is rather unfair to judge the restaurant by a single dish; that would be a very common fried tilapia. The only thing uncommon about it was the heart-shaped ornament made from its bones. But nevertheless, it was good. And basing form how the rest of us ate, I guess the other dishes were great as well.

If you're like me who cannot eat most of BFAR-covered foods, then this is not for you. But if you're good on seafood, then this might be the place for you. I cannot give you if it is worth the budget because I didn't pay for anything.