Maynila On Main Street

I have been invited to Maynila Restaurant for several special occasions. Most recently I attended a Graduation Dinner on May 28, 2016. As usual, the buffet was delicious with many wonderful choices of Filipino cuisine, and the service was great with waiters and waitresses checking around and taking away used food plates as needed. However for our size group, the venue was cramped.
As you can see from the event pictures, the food was wonderful, and the venue lovely at night! It is a nice place for private parties.

Great Food, down home Filipino style. Feels like family as soon as you walk in, the food is on the table and the Tita’s and Tito’s are on stage singing the classics.
Coming back with all the peeps!

I was craving Kare-​kare so we went here for the first time. Ordered it for to go. The food was delish but there are more sauce than the meat. It wasn’t worth what we paid for.

replace the sticky tiles and table covers please!

Sunday… Ordered several take outs… We’re waiting at the table. Food has been ready but the lady didn’t tell us. Until someone needs the table and we asked how much time and the lady said its been ready.
Told her we’ve been waiting there…
Then she said oh it just came out…

What is the point of ordering hours ahead and have to wait another half an hour. The service here has never change over the years, It sucks!

The food is great, but the service is HORRIBLE! Not once did they return to our table to ask if we need water or at least if we’re doing okay. When we needed something, I had to walk up and ask them for things. There were only 2 small parties here, my party of 2 and a party of 3. Maynila needs to be educated on how to perform customer service better.

I was craving sisig so bad and my friend recommended this place.
Ordered sisig, fried calamari and saging con yelo.
Sisig: it’s almost as good as Magic Wok’s sisig. The sisig was tasty and super crispy. I couldn’t stop eating it that night.
Fried calamari ($ 9.25): the fried calamari tasted so familiar… it tasted like KFC’s breading, but in a good, tasty way. Finger licking good! I couldn’t stop eating this dish too!
Saging con yelo ($ 4.25): it was just banana with milk. Yuck! It was super expensive for what I got and I didn’t like this dessert.
Large rice ($ 3.25): they charge for rice, just like other Filipino restaurants.
QUICK TIP: THEY HAVE KARAOKE AND FILIPINO CHANNEL.
4 stars! I would come back for its sisig and fried calamari again!
Maynila On Main Street is yummylicious!

Great food! Great owners (Scott and Jellic) and staff (Roger/​Hilario)! Crispy Pata is a must order !!! Laing, Sinigang na Baka, Fresh Lumpias, Spicy Lechon Kawali Sisig, Pinaputok Na Pampano… the best!

The food was ok. It was not that fresh in my opinion. Not the best Filipino food I’ve had. Was around the area and decided to check it out because they had ok reviews. The place is pretty big. Traditional Filipino décor. Lots of fans which is a plus in this heat!
They tried to over charge me a plate. I’m sure it was an honest mistake but that took from my experience.
Double check your order before you leave.
I’m not from Carson but if I came to the City again and want Filipino I will definitely give another Filipino restaurant a chance.

They should lighten this place up. The people waiting on customers are dressed up neat but those at the counter, cashier and their carinderia are dressed up and makes you think if their food are clean. It may also help their business if customers get a good feel here if those who work try smiling too because their food here is just ordinary filipino fare.

Delicious! It tastes just like the motherland. Best and most popular thing here is the Crispy Pata~ It’s hard not to notice this big, orange building! Sizing of the orders are perfect for groups eating together.

They have the typical Filipino cuisines. But I did not pay $ 16 dollars to have my kare-​kare filled with bones rather than meat.
The cocktails were bland too and can not be distinguished from one another. My friend and I bought the Maynila Madness and the Makita Mayhem yet we had to taste each others drinks to know what’s mine.
Overall, the place is good for casual hangouts with friends or family. Decent drinks, though I will prefer going to downtown LB.
Price wise. Kinda pricey. I seriously can’t believe I had three pieces of meat and four huge ass bones in the kare-​kare.

Went here to order one dish to-​go. I was waiting for almost an hour and they told me to wait some more. People coming in to eat here were served first before the to-​go orders which is pretty ridiculous. Will never go back to this restaurant for their horrible service. I wouldn’t recommend this place for to-​go.

Karaōke comedy Friday & karaōke Saturday hosted by me & Camille w/​Dj Alex… Hands down great authentic Filipino food!!! Try it to believe it, my favorite Tahong (mussel) soup… The longest running Filipino restaurant in LA for 20 years! Check it out & find out why…;)

In the last 3 years or so, I learned that Filipino food is more than just delicious crispy lumpia. I was super excited when I got to try another local Filipino restaurant for my boyfriend’s brother’s birthday.
This place is supposedly known for their crispy pata… so of course we ordered some. It’s basically a deep fried pork hock (knuckle, trotter), hence the cripsy, and served with a soy-​vinegar dipping sauce. The crispiness was just amazing, and the meat just fell apart to the touch because it was so tender. SARAP! :)
Other staples we ordered:
Lechon kawali– deep fried pork, made of the fatty pork belly parts… with mang tomas dipping sauce, which is made specifically for lechon.
Sisig– pork parts, typically snout, ears, served on a hot plate and flavored with vingear. It typically comes with an egg on it, but here it was an option, and we opted to keep the egg out.
Bagaong fried rice– It’s pink because it’s made with a shrimp paste, which many people find kind of stinky, but it was good.
Canton pancit– It’s Filipino tradition to eat noodles on your birthday, as it symbolizes long life. I think this was one of my favorite pancit dishes of all time!!!
Lumpia with peanut sauce– not the crispy kind… it feels llike a salad wrapped in a carb. It was okay, but the peanut sauce was delicious!
Platter of fried/​grilled food– It included intestines (fatty and yummy), fish, shrimp mussels, pork belly, etc.
We also had halo halo. The halo halo had too much ice and the ice itself wasn’t fine enough– too rough… It ruined the whole balance of the dessert.
Overall the food was generally good… not as good as some that I’ve had at people’s homes, but the crispy pata pushes the rating for this place up!

Came here with my aunt and her friends and had dinner. Ordered crispy pata, kaldereta, and palabok. All three were really good. Make sure to order something sweet after. Or limit yourself to how much pata you’ll eat or else you’ll feel like throwing up after from how fatty the pata is. I ordered their mango smoothie was pretty good.
The place was empty on a Wednesday night and it was us and another table on the other side. They seemed to be understaffed since we kept in flagging down the waiter to refills, rice refills, and desert orders. Seemed like he was also the cook. I noticed he was the person that made my smoothie too. And also it was hella hot in this place and they didn’t have the A/​C on and I feel really uncomfortable eating when it’s hot and humid in the evening. This was the week when there was a really hot heat wave in California in the month or May. Other than that it’s a pretty nice looking place

My fave Filipino restaurant thus far. Being Filipino, when I go eat out at a Filipino restaurant, I expect it to be better than eating at home. And Maynila def impressed! (Don’t tell my mom though lol)
Sizzling sisig, crispy pata, calamares, and kaldereta. BOOM! U will not be disappointed! Also, they have this new menu item ADOBO WINGS. Wow! Finger lickin, drop on the floor and still eat it kind of good!
Maynila has karaōke on weekend nights too! How cool is that! Not sure why people complain about the service but I’ve been coming here for years and I never had to complain about anything.
Overall 5 stars because the food is amazing and I would come back anytime!

My family and I came here one night for dinner, and it was sooo loud due to kareoke music playing over the speakers. I found myself yelling my order over the music.
Our waiter said the food portions were good for 3 – 4 people but they were only good for like 2, in my opinion (come on, Filipinos like to eat!). The service was not very good… he brought us all our food before any of us got our water. Water is so basic! How could you not serve that right away?
I agree the food was good, but I think I favor my grandma’s home cooked meals more. Also I had ordered a mango smoothie (which WAS delicious and had sweet mango bits in it) but there was a disgusting hair in it and it made me lose my appetite. The halo halo was not really sweet – I don’t think they put any condensed milk.
Overall, I’ll give this place 2 stars because I don’t think I’d want to come back here. Not willingly, anyway.

Just came here for crispy pata, pork sinigang, plain white rice, and two sodas … Our bill came out to $ 41.11. How the fuck is that possible? Our server never came back to refill water or check up on us. When we asked them to explain our bill they claimed that they charged us a «$ 3.45 service charge». When we asked what the service charge was the worker couldn’t even explain it to us. The food is definitely good here but watch out for what they charge you on your bill … Lola trying rip you off!!!