We shopped at S and R’s at Bonifacio Global City again last Saturday (our local warehouse club) and decided to have dinner at Serendra’s. I was assigned to choose the restaurant. I decided to pick Conti’s and try to redeem myself after having a not-so-nice dinner last weekend at a Singaporean (fast) food place located at the Araneta Coliseum.
At first we wanted to back out because we had to wait for a seat and we were 9th in queue. We took a seat and immediately someone asked to get our orders. We took sometime to browse the menu. Later on, we were told that there was a seat for us at the 2nd floor and that we need to take the elevator up to get there. Over at the 2nd floor, we only saw 3 tables but outside there was a huge group of 20 somethings being served.
I wanted to order squidlets for appetizer, karekare, dalandan juice and moist chocolate cake for dessert. It turned out that the only thing they have from my choices was the dalandan juice 
. It was pretty disappointing that none of the food I wanted was available. Probably the big party outside ate much of their stocks. I ended up ordering gambas as appetizer, Barbecue Ribs plate for my main dish and the mango cake which they claim to be their house specialty. MrC had trouble choosing but ended up ordering pasta.
The orders took a bit of time but not too long that we would starve if you know what I mean 
. At least they were able to serve the gambas and mushroom which I thought was really tasty, the garlic-spicy sauce was amazing I kept it as a dip for the Ribs. For the Ribs plate, there was a choice between mashed potato and garlic rice. Somehow, I chose garlic rice at that time.
Here’s the verdict: MrC’s pesto pasta was really good and flavorful he was thinking about ordering takeout next time. My Ribs was big enough to be filling and also quite tender but it was on the bland side that I had to use some of my leftover sauce from the gambas and ask for barbecue sauce. The lady first brought me A1 sauce, so it seems they didn’t have real barbecue sauce there such as the one in Racks but anyways, she offered me Worcestershire sauce and I thought it was acceptable. The mango cake was HUGE I mean really huge and had 3 layers made of different ingredients. I highly recommend it! MrC had cheesecake which he found okay too.
With regards to the service and atmosphere, I think that their branch at Serendra is in dire need of more space but service is very good in my opinion.
Tags: bgc, contis, fort bonifacio, global city, serendra
