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🤮 1/5 - Well I tried it, #never again - do not even bother.
By 👻 @Jiropark, 11/30/2019 3:00 am
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Well I tried, but #neveragain.
I had high hopes about this one considering you can't get a reservation for months out, and we had to wait in line for a f***ing hour at 4PM in the freezing cold to get in. However, this place has been hyped up by yuppies who don't know what real Filipino food should taste like. Some may say that there is a reason why Filipino food hasn't made it onto the world cuisine stage like Thai food, or Japanese, or Indian - and while I can't argue with those people, the cuisine has a lot of potential to be good when executed correctly. Bad Saint is not an example of proper Filipino food done right... I should have known by the long line of trendy wannabe foodie yuppies who were waiting ahead of us in line that the food, the setting, the everything was going to be terrible.
I have been to the Philippines maybe two dozen times, so I have an idea of the good, the bad, and the mediocre of their cuisine. I also went with a Filipino friend who only recently moved to the US - so I think we are pretty good judges of what Filipino food should taste like.
My friend initially got super excited that there was "Sisig" on the menu. Sisig is a traditional a dish served on a sizzling hot plate made of pig head and chicken liver, usually seasoned with calamansi, onions and chili peppers. Yes, yes, I said the same thing the first time I found out what it was, but after trying it I have to say I liked it. But, I digress. The "Bad Saint Sisig" is truly bad. Much to my Filipina friend's disappointment, their version of sisig is made out of minced mushrooms served with a duck egg on top. The duck egg is sort of authentic filipino, but overall the dish is extremely extremely bland. It would have been so much better with pig face, believe it or not....
We also had the "Ginisang Ampalaya." Which is a Filipino dish of bitterr melon. It wasn't terrible, I ate it and thought you know if this were half the price then it wouldn't be half bad - but it was so expensive for a boring vegetable dish. My Filipina friend thought that the bitter melon texture was off - either way, it was nothing memorable.
Finally, the one dish that I was excited to try was Bad Saint's take on Filipino longanisa (Filipino sausage similar to a chorizo but sweeter). Filipinos usually eat longanisa at breakfast, and I admittedly am not an expert in the longanisa making process - but it tends to be a bit sweet which is why I assume its a breakfast staple served with rice and fried eggs. Either way, Bad Saint's version wasn't bad - they served it on a bed of grits, and I normally hate grits, but these grits also were sort of flavorful. My Filipina friend said the sausages were too sweet, and she also didn't think that the grits paired well with the sausage. She had a point - I have never once seen grits served in the Philippines.
And the price of this totally underwhelming experience: 3 dishes and two glasses of wine came to $120 without tip - give or take. Filipino food is one of those cuisines that should be like comfort food (affordable, hearty, something your mom would make for you at home); and there was nothing about the food or the experience that warranted such a price tag. And while I understand that the quaint, cutely decorated restaurant is small and trying to cram as many people in to "enjoy" this culinary trend, most of the seats are super uncomfortable immovable stools. I guess they are trying to get the poor saps that get suckered into trying the place in and out as quickly as possible by making the place as cramped and as uncomfortable as possible. The stool almost got lodged up my a**.
Oh one other thing - none of the staff, especially none of the staff actually preparing the food (because you can see all of them) are Filipino. Just sayin'! I know the "executive chef" is Filipino, but he wasn't there. Another Filipino friend of mine said that he was in Manila on vacation or something.
On a positive note, I found the servers to be very professional and kind despite the mad rush of people waiting to get in.
This place is not worth the hype, the price, nor the experience. Do not even bother going. This is by far the most disappointing hyped up restaurants I have been to in years. I can't even begin to convey my feelings of disappointment with this place. So so bad.
My quest for good, authentic Filipino food in the Metro DC area shall continue...
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