sunnies café

i have passed by lane p (in BGC) many times before and have since noticed a new eating hunt in bonifacio high street. it is called sunnies café, which was already there for quite some time now. but never had i any chance to sample this one, until my sister and yuri didn’t know where to go during that one weekday in august.

the prices are on the heftier side, especially for comfort food. but no te preocupes… if the food is great, i don’t mind paying a little bit more than usual. the ambience was totally cool, the modern feel was good and the tables were good-spaced, not too crowded. and of course, we all just wanted to have our bellies filled, we were super hungry! everything went well. sunnies café have attentive staff and crew. i ordered for stovetop pork chops. this one comes with scallion brown rice, french beans, marble potatoes and the meat was described as 2-day brined chop.

and then the food was served. my sister got honey garlic crispy chicken and it looked good (also tasted well according to her). my stovetop pork chops also looked nice, although a little bit bland in terms of the color. but once again, no te preocupes, the chops should be good. but no!! it was one of those “tough moments" when the meat fights back and does not have any plans of cooperating with your knife and fork. it was leathery and hard… nothing of the nice gravy could have done wonders with it. since the meat was stringy, even the nice side dishes and brown rice could not save the meal. the pork chop was super hard!!!

the manager asked how the food was and i didn’t mince (i could not mince the meat after all!) any words… “it was pure tough meat”, i said to her! she offered to have it changed. but when the new stovetop pork chop was served, it was all the same! the meat was still hard, stringy, leathery and chewy. i guess it’s how they prepared it.

defeated and actually feeling bad and cheated about spending PHP 370 on a leathery pork chop, off we went and i said that never will i step in sunnies café again. i tweeted about it and tagged sunnies café but didn’t get any reply. i guess they’re still making money to even lift a finger on one customer who had a whole lot of “hard” time with their hard pork chop.

lesson learned… when the meat goes tough, we should be tougher on the establishments! 😊 we all deserve only the best, right?!