Restaurant Review: Rodrigo's Roast + Resto + Bar (Santiago, Ilocos Sur)

Rodrigo's Roast + Resto + Bar

The beachfront, two-storey Rodrigo’s Roast + Resto + Bar, with its equally relaxing Santorini vibe of blue and white, is an all-day dining restaurant affiliated with the nearby Santiago Cove Hotel and Restaurant.  

Check out “Hotel and InnReview: Santiago Cove Hotel and Restaurant”

 

The beachfront side

We arrived at Rodrigo's late in the afternoon in time for a sumptuous merienda of noodles/pasta (Php230-270, pansit canton, pansit bihon, pansit palabok, lomi, Rodrigo’s lechon pasta  and Adela’s spaghetti), dumplings, sandwiches (Php110-189, roast chicken, BB lechon, ham & egg, ham & cheese and Rodrigo’s club), various kakanin and Ilocano empanada.

 

Noodles (spaghetti) and pansit (bihon, canton and palabok)

For dessert, we were served refreshing halo-halo. Other desserts in their menu include leche flan, saging/macapuno/mais con yelo, fruit salad and ice cream (per scoop).

 

Sandwiches and empanada

During our visit, Mr. Mark Christian “MC” Urbano and Ms. Lorraine “Lauren” Garingo of Kuys Acoustic were performing live acoustic music.  The staff was accommodating, friendly and the service was efficient.

 

Lorraine "Lauren" Garingo and Mark Christian "MC"
Urbano of Kuys Acoustic

Specializing in authentic Filipino and Ilocano dishes, its menu was prepared by the young and dynamic Chef Chester Delos Reyes Velas.  Being an all day restaurant, they also serve silog (sinangag and itlog) meals (daing, beef tapa, tocino, hot dog and bangus. 

Chef Chester Delos Reyes Velas

Refreshing halo-halo

 

Its menu features Whole Roasts (Pork/Bangus/Pusit Lechon, Whole Roast Chicken) and Roast Plates (chicken, pork) served with kambuaya sauce.  The cactus-like, oblong-shaped karimbuaya leaves (scientific name: Euphorbia neriifolia linn) give needed acidity and help removed the foul smell pigs normally have.

 

Breakfast silog meals 

Also in the menu are Fried Chicken Buckets (6 and 12 pieces), appetizers (Php90-250, dinakdakan, calamares, pork barbecue, garlic peanuts, French fries, potato chips, lumpia and butterfly squid), vegetable dishes (Php179-250, pinakbet, chopsuey, tortang talong, dinengdeng, laing, dinuduy, gulay na gata and kangkong con lechon), main dishes (Php300-450, buttered chicken, insarabasab, bagnet with KBL, binagoongan bagnet, Bicol express, sinigang na lechon, lechon paksiw, crispy pata/ulo, beef kaldereta, pinapaitang kambing, kalderetang kambing, kare-kare and bistek tagalog).

 

Sabangan Beach and Santiago Cove

They also serve seafood (tuna kilawin, pritong hito, adobong pusit, sinigang na bangus, hipon ala Rodrigo, sinigang na hipon, hipon sa gata and crispy buntot ng tuna), rice (lechon, seafood, malunggay, longanisa, garlic and plain) and sizzling dishes (chicken and mushroom, spicy tuna, gambas na pusit/hipon/chicken/lechon/bangus/tuna sisig, sizzling burger steak/pork chop/hot dog).

 

Roof deck

All these can be washed down by juices (pineapple, dalandan, mango and orange), iced tea (lemon and honey blend) in glass (php60) or pitchers (Php100); coffee (Php60); bottled water (Php40) and fruit shakes in season (Php85).They also serve soft drinks (Php50) and beer (Php70, SMB Light/Pilsen, SMB flavored, Red Horse).

 

View of nearby Santiago Cove Hotel and Restaurant from roof deck

Rodrigo’s can also host business meetings and small gatherings via their 70-pax function room.  You can also dine, alfresco along Sabangan Beach or at its roof deck. Both are ideal places to watch the setting sun.

 

A satellite branch of Rodrigo's along Sabangan Beach

Rodrigo’s Roast + Resto + Bar: Sabangan Beach, Brgy. Sabangan, Santiago 2707, Ilocos Sur.  Mobile number:  (0966) 374-5121, (0917) 654-2078 and (0955) 773-9793. Open daily, 8 AM to 10 PM.