Maple @ Sanctuario de San Antonio, Makati

After a meeting at the Manila Polo Club ended late, we said we'll find somewhere close to eat.  A friend suggested Maple, which is at the 2nd floor of the San Antonio Plaza in Forbes Park.  So we went.

The ambience was really nice.  Very warm and cozy, very suitable for the good old reliable pancake.  So we ordered their specialty, Maple Buttermilk Pancakes, because it was our first time there.  It was priced 275 pesos.  We also ordered Hueves Rancheros, which according to the description was a Mexican breakfast of tortillas, beans, chicken, eggs and cheese.  That was 340 pesos.

10minutes after, the lovely but distracted waitress arrived with the Huevos Rancheros and Waffles.  We told her that we did not order Waffles, but Pancakes.   She was surprised, which honestly even surprised us.  She said was it OK for us to wait for 16 minutes for our pancake?  We said, "16 minutes for a pancake?".  But we were really hungry, so we said OK, we will wait.

After a few minutes, the waitress came back saying the pancake would be ready in 5 minutes.  Of course, we were chuckling.  In fairness, our pancakes arrived in 5 minutes.

Huevos Rancheros were a literal hodge podge of ingredients, and the flavor became really confusing.  We said, we probably did not know how to eat it - as it really tasted nothing like cheese, nor chicken.  Maybe beans, with tons of unrecognizable spices.  

But it was the pancakes which were the biggest letdown.  They were fluffy, yes, thin, yes.  But rather dry.  And it was unbelievably bland.  I really had high hopes, given this was their specialty plus we were really hungry.  We were very disappointed.  Later on, we were told that Maple share the same owners with Pancake House, this was our biggest surprise 

When the bill came, of course we were charged with the waffles we did not order.  We called the attention of the waiter who of course dealt with it without much fuzz.  Intentional?  We don't know.

Food Quality: 2/10

Service: 2/10

Ambience: 8/10

Price: 2/10

Value for Money: 2/10

Verdict:  After lunch, we ran by a friend who at Starbucks who saw us coming from Maple and said, "why did you eat there, food is not good there".  We rest our case.

If it is any consolation, this is the nice view from Maple.