Adobo Experience

Love the krisssspy adobo! especially the krispy pata and flaming bulalo. adobo rice was on point! service can be really slow depends on what time ur going but its worth the wait.

They do really good boodle fights here. Is it shameful I didn’t know that eating off a banana leaf with my bare hands was called boodle fights till now? Sue me, I know the national fruit, bird, anthem, vegetable, formal dress, and dish of my homeland so I have oodles and boodles of Filipino cred… bwiset
Anyways, they’re very friendly and personable here. Become a regular and you’ve become family. They’ll remember how you like certain dishes.
But the food is worth coming for. A growing list of Adobo dishes, supplemented by unique Filipino dishes. The dessert is outsourced but they’re just as delicious. If there was one thing you had to try here I’d suggest the Chicken Adobo. No, I’d say the Crispy pata. Wait, the halo halo. Scratch that, they do a FLAMING bulalo. DANG I CANT MAKE MY MIND UP.
Overall I’m glad there’s a new Filipino restaurant in town that’s raising in Calgary’s Filipino cuisine scene. A place I can drag newbies to rather than have to throw dinner parties and cook them Kare-​Kare and Adobo.

I will admit this is the first time I have ever eaten Filipino cuisine. The presentation and the service were top notch as mentioned in previous posts. The amount of food and the price are a great match, however, the meat in the dishes we ordered were very fatty and did not actually contain a lot of meat. The flavours in the dishes seemed to have been masked by the oily/​fat from the meat or cooking oil. Happy munching!
Ordered
1. Volcano adobo w/​chicken and mixed
2. Sisig (great flavours but on the salty side)
3. Flaming bulalo steak (really cool presentation and potential fire hazard but great!) — a little fatty

Adobo Experience has a large variety of delicious comfort food at a great price. Some of our favourites are the volcano and haven adobo chicken, crispers, quail eggs, my idols fish, flaming steak and their garlic rice is the best! With the very friendly owners and staff adobo is a very welcoming place with great eats!

A very unique and authentic Filipino cuisine experience that is buoyed by fast service and a friendly and helpful staff.
We went as a large group of 10 to try out the group meal (I forget what the Tagalog term is) which was served on AUTHENTIC banana leaves (as opposed to the fake printed stuff). The table came with crispy fried BBQ chicken, pork and fish. Plus, the rice is unlimited.
We also ordered a whole bunch of desserts like cassava and taro cakes. Unfortunately, I forget the name of the most. They were all phenomenal.
Service is extremely fast, friendly and the staff exceedingly polite. Would highly recommend this place before it gets «discovered» by John Gilchrist and hits mainstream audience. Also interesting to note that except our group, pretty much every other patron was Filipino. Which is always an excellent sign.

Prices were decent and the service was excellent. We had ordered the crispy pata, crunchy adobo and sisig.
The crispy pata was okay, but the other two were a disappointment. I would come again but to try to other dishes.

We’re from Toronto and tried a few Filipino restaurant here in Calgary. Tried this one because of some good reviews. The place was small a bit of native accent but not really appealing but not really bad as well. My friend ordered Crispy Pata, her sister ordered Chopseuy or mixed vegetables and I ordered this «Crispy Adobo» and two Garlic rice. The waitresses were great when it comes to customer service.
When the food came it was served on a wood plate with «Banana leaves» nice presentation. However, instead of serving us Garlic rice it was steam rice so I noted that to the one who served it whose apparently one of the cook or chef (Simon) and said he can change it but I said that is fine. After a few minutes Simon came back with one cup of garlic rice to compensate and that was nice.
The Crispy Pata was cooked to perfection and not dry like many other Filipino restaurant will served. The Chopseuy was ok but not great. The Crispy Adobo which I would expect to great as their restaurant was named after the famous dish, I would think it was delicious. It’s actually fried pork chop that was topped with adobo sauce. The pork chopped was so dry. I thought it was an adobo that they let the sauce reduced until it gets dried but was not. I will not order it again nor recommend it. It also mentioned on the menu with rice and vegetables but when it came the «vegetables» that they said was actually «sliced lettuce and carrots» which should be mentioned as green salad instead of veggies.
I will go back to this place because of excellent Customer service, making sure that you have everything okay and for Crispy Pata. Oh yes, the Leche Flan is good as well.
I was told that this is new, therefore there’s a lot of room for improvements. In addition, the price is good as compared to other Filipino restaurants I’ve been to so far. I would think Calgary will be cheaper but Boy oh Boy, so expensive as compared to Toronto.
7 seas restaurant still my number one so far and this will be second for now.

I went back and tried their adobo. After all the restaurant’s name is Adobo Experience.
My husband had the Adobo Haven (adobo with coconut milk) and I had their Crispy Adobo (deep fried pork belly). What can I say about their crispy adobo? The meat wasn’t dredged in oil, seasoned very well and fried to perfection! The dish wasn’t overly sauced, which kept the crispy texture of the meat. I wish I could give a review of the adobo haven, but my husband finished off the dish. Which would indicate that the quite liked it.
Though I must admit that I was a bit sad at the end of our meal. Since they ran out of taho. If you’ve never had taho it is basically made up of soft/​silken tofu, vanilla simple syrup (brown sugar, water and vanilla extract), and tapioca pearls. If you ever have the chance to go by Adobo Experience, try their taho. I think, they’re the only Filipino restaurant in Calgary that serves it.
I may have left sad, but my tummy was quite happy with that crispy adobo.
Tip: If you ever feel like trying out their boodle fight (a feast good for 6 – 8 people) call ahead of time. We saw customers go in last night asking for a boodle fight. I heard it takes about 45 minutes to set up and most customers call in ahead of time for their boodle fight meal.
Boodle fight is a military style of eating where long tables are prepared and food are on top of the banana leaves. Viands and rice ready to eat using your bare hands, jugs of water are prepared on the side to wash hands before the «eating combat». With the signal to start the boodle fight, everyone aims for his/​her position. –Urban Dictionary

Went for dinner and had crispy pork adobo, volcano pork adobo and Filipino Crispers. The presentation was excellent utilizing bamboo plates lined with fresh banana leaves. The food was flavorful with a perfect temperature and spices. This was characteristic and authentic Filipino food at a very reasonable price.
Service wise the food was brought quickly upon completion as dishes were finished. The atmosphere leaves something to be desired but maybe after the owners get some traction and a following they can upgrade the space or move to a new one.

Tried this little gem today — just stopped in for appies with the sister-​friends. The appetizer platter fed three of us for $ 14. The chef came out, asked if we had any questions and described all the delicious tidbits that were served up on a mancala game board! There were eight different items (wings, spring rolls, tofu bites, mango relish, just to name a few) and two dipping sauces. It was delish. We then decided to share a dessert: not-​too-​sweet, creamy Buko Pandan It was a scrumptious coconut and jello cup with a dollop of ice cream. Quick, friendly service. Can’t wait to go back and try a full meal.

Great new restaurant! Only 4 stars right now because I’ve only had a simple lunch. We had crispy pork adobo and kaldereta. Both were delicious. Service was friendly and food is very reasonably priced.
Will be back very soon.