Ugly Kitchen

Came here for dinner with friends on a Saturday evening, with reservations. The place was packed and they had live music! Your typical awesome Filipino cover band, entertaining 👌🏽 but not easy at all to enjoy a meal with friends without shouting. On a busy night, this definitely is a place where you enjoy more with friends vs coming alone or with a date. Sitting at the bar could be cool with 2 people - they had a few TVs above the bar tuned in to basketball and boxing of course. #sopinoy The Pata Combo was fab! The palabok was made with spaghetti noodles...! Still tasty. Their calamari apoetizer and the crab torta werre both yummy. What else... Oh the bone marrow dish was decent and the spam fries, taste like deep fried spam. 🤓 Cocktail menu has a Filipino spin... Made with calamansi 💕 so good! This is definitely more of a good drinking (with food) spot during the weekend vs a dinner) dining experience. Does that make sense?! I would give this place 3.5 stars if I could... But with my good friends visiting from the Bay with me at the table, yummy food and pleasant service, overall we had a great time which boosted the rating to 4 stars 🌟⭐⭐⭐ TIP: review your bill... I guess a new trend in NYC is to add a calculated gratuity line to your bill, which I just saw on TV yesterday! Although it's a US custom, you are not legally obligated to pay a tip FYI... so feel free to adjust as you see fit and hope you read this and don't add an additional tip unless you are feeling super generous. Thanks for reading!

I ordered the thinly sliced steak which is supposed to be their signature and popular dish. I find the steak a bit dry. The ugly wings with garlic were great.

Went here for happy hour, they have a variety of drinks to choose from which is cool! We didn't order food since the place is already pack, dining area is too small. The hubby gave them a cash tip but they still added $5 to the credit card, so be careful giving a tab and getting drunk there.

If you're looking for good Filipino food at reasonable prices in Manhattan then look no further. This place never disappoints. My go to dishes are the lumpia Shanghai, topsilog, bistek, sizzling adobo and sisig and ariscaldo. The real gem of dining here though is the kamayan!! Great variety of food and lots to share with everyone in your party plus you eat with your hands. Other places have kamayan but this place does it the best! If you've never experienced kamayan before, set it up with friends and try it... You won't regret it!

Been there once and will definitely go again. they have the baby duck eggs which are hard to find in NY. it looks disgusting but they are so yummy and very healthy. they have a good selection of drinks as well. you can wait at the bar if they don't have a table ready.

Great food! Super friendly staff! Would give 5 stars if they served dessert! I love me some sweets!

Great Filipino resturant with tasty food and hip crowd, Friday was very crowded reservation is advised

Great food. Did a kamayan style dinner with friends. Had a great time. I'd like to go back and eat off the regular menu in the near future.