Ilustrado Restaurant

Directly back to a kind-of-colonialism building. Good was very good and not pricy at all - despite some reviews say it’s generally more expensive than Filipino standards. We really enjoyed the food and definitely recommend this option for lunch or dinner. Service was good but a bit “distracted” I had paella which was really great

Exploring Intramuros must include dining experience and Ilustrado was billed as a must try. The main cafe was closed due to a function and so service was under a tent. Ordered pansit Guisado, arroz caldo and coco water infused with mint lychee. Arroz was piping hot in large bowl and had a side of fried tofu and crispy belly-delicious. Pansit was good for >1 tasty but on the salry side. Coco concoction was refreshing..

A restaurant inside Intramuros with a delectable menu. Every food we had tasted great-- calamari for starters, kare-kare, callos madrilena, and mango panna cotta for dessert. From personal experience, the serving was okay for sharing but probably not for heavy eaters. Outside appearance was similar to the Spanish-style buildings in Intramuros but the inside was more of a retro diner which was nice. There was also a TV inside for entertainment. Never got to try the drinks out but hopefully soon.

The atmosphere of old Spanish colonial style was good. The service was indifferent though. Individual waiters worked hard, but the service was incoherent. Not helped by the guy who I guess was floor manager, who appeared totally disinterested. He ignored my neighbour twice when he made a request. The food looked exciting (see my photo of the menu), but the 1st course was just a mush of mixed flavours. The promised mesclun was just a chopped up regular lettuce. The next course - fish soup - was actually very good, though we had to keep asking for bread, which when it arrived turned out to be a sweet roll which was so wrong with fish soup! The main course consisted of very chewy machine sliced beef served with a dollop of soggy rice which was supposed to be paella. The shrimp was OK. Then dessert was just too many mixed flavours, mostly indistinguishable from each other. Between courses they served a glass of 'lemonade' which was very sweet. When I asked for one without sugar, the waiter admitted it was made with powdered lemon flavour! All in all this was not a good food experience. I would suggest they forget all the fancy menus and multiple ingredients, and focus on less, but good quality ingredients; with less but more distinguishable flavours.

I did my photoshoot in their restaurant and they gladly assisted me and my team on where we could shoot. They also have a really beautiful interior that shows a filipino home and their food was good and had big servings. Their staff were very accommodating and friendly aswell ☺️

I've always wanted to eat here since the 90's. It used to be where you'd want to take your date to. I finally got a chance to visit. Unfortunately, we only had time for breakfast. I'm so glad we missed our free breakfast at the hotel for this. It was so good, kinda expensive, but so good.

The food was excellent. Quality taste and very savory. A little bit pricey but worth the price. No service water and no bread refills. The small amount of bread was already 395 pesos which is not worth the price. Overall, experience was great, friendly and attentive staff and wonderful atmosphere.

This is a very nice restaurant located within intramuros. We tried many traditional Filipino food here. The salmon head sinigang was nice and not too sour. The mixed paella was large and enough to feed many of us. The Lengua cos setas was my favourite. The meat was so soft. I didn’t quite like the Rellenong bangus and the Kambing was only ok. Desserts were also very good. We tried their Halo halo and Mango pannacotta. They even had live music in this place.