The official dining place of Nurture Spa Village is Tanglad Bistro. They serve breakfast, lunch & dinner. When you purchase a package at Nurture Spa, it usually includes breakfast & lunch or dinner.
Christina & I chose to have dinner there instead of lunch so we could just relax, enjoy the atmosphere, and not have to leave the compound. Nothing extraordinary with the restaurant’s design but the food was decent. We had 2 options as to where we wanted to be seated.
The indoor area w/ an Indian inspired theme (is it really Indian? felt like it :P). Most of the guests who brought laptops prefer to stay here. There’s wifi available & you can easily call the waiters to your table since most of them tend to stay in that area.
The outside area only has 1 table. I’m thinking that they might be using this area for romantic dinner setups. It’s especially beautiful to dine there at night because you get to see the beautiful view of Nurture Spa village while you eat.
The only thing that I disliked in the outdoor area were all the mosquitos. There was just too many & it gets really distracting while you have your meal.
We tried to dine at both areas. Might as well get to experience everything right? We had breakfast at the indoor area while we had our dinner at the outdoor area. Different experiences altogether.
For dinner:
We were served a full set meal (Php 650). We get to choose from their entree menu & get to have soup or salad + dessert. As both of us are trying to be healthy, we ordered fish.
We were served potato leek soup which was their soup of the day that time. The potato leek soup wasn’t really out of this world, but it was still good. Creamy, which you expect from potato soup, and the added leek gave it a little of a unique taste which was nice.
After the meal, we were served dessert. The dessert of the day was supposed to be chocolate cake but I requested if we could be served a different menu item as both of us aren’t fond of chocolates. I was so glad that the server obliged with our request. The dessert ended up being crème brûlée, which was definitely more to my liking.
I was impressed that they can be flexible with their customer’s needs. 🙂
As I mentioned, both our main course were fish. Christina ordered the Black Treasure Fish w/c is a Pacific Dory fillet cooked in oyster garlic sauce, bell pepper & shitake mushroom. I honestly think the combination of ingredients in this dish really are excellent together. The oyster garlic sauce with the mushrooms is really something that just makes sense with a fish dish like this.
I, on the other hand, ordered the Spice Blackened Pacific Dory. It’s basically pan-fried Pacific Dory with sauce made of mango butter. It was delicious! I loved it! I especially liked how the mango wasn’t too overpowering but complemented the sauce quite nicely, it still had that nice butter sauce taste with a lingering taste of mango. Great execution on this dish. The fish was cooked nicely too, still very tender and moist while keeping that nice outer crust.
For breakfast:
The next day, we had our breakfast at the indoor area. I was expecting a buffet type of breakfast but apparently not, w/c actually made a lot of sense as there aren’t much people in the place. Best to serve the food ala carte & newly cooked.
Just like their dinner offering, it was also a set menu (Php 350). We were given 4 choices: Filipino, continental, American or healthy breakfast. All comes with coffee, chocolate drink or tea. I must say, their tarragon tea was just superb! I think I asked for 3 refills of this. It was that good!
I ordered the Filipino breakfast. I wanted to eat healthy but cereal is really not my thing. Christina ordered the healthy one. It is fruits topped with oats served with soymilk & yogurt. It soooooooooo looked yummy!!!
To top it all off, fruits were served as well as dessert.
I ordered the Filipino breakfast, particularly the tocino one. The other choices were longganisa, beef tapa & bangus. As usual with most Filipino style breakfast, it comes with fried rice & egg.
One thing that I most love in the restaurant & throughout the Nurture Spa Village is their service. The staff were really accommodating, helpful & friendly. Most of all, they really do focus all their activities with the customer in mind, which other establishments’ staff don’t have.
Great food coupled with excellent customer service = good dining experience. That’s what I felt when we dined at Tanglad Bistro.
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Tanglad Bistro
Nurture Spa Village, Brgy. Maitim II West, Tagaytay City, Philippines
(02) 584-4228
I'm very intrigued by the spiced dory, hope I get to try it some time. 🙂
you should when you get the chance to visit Nurture Spa 🙂
On November 23, 2011 I booked online via Agoda the most
expensive room in nurture spa and got the online confirmation that says
“all rooms are guaranteed”. I was completely burnt out that day from
work so I called all my clinics for that weekend and cancelled them. Ive used
Agoda several times in the past, both for hotels in the Philippines as well as
abroad and Ive never had any problems with their service, well except now… I
read some of these reviews especially this incident of how this couple was given
a makeshift room so for the first time in my life i decided to call the day
before my booking to confirm. First time i called nurture spa, they had me call
them back. 2nd time i called they said they would call me back. After 4 hours
of waiting, i called again for the 3rd time, they said they would call me back.
Finally got the callback and I was told that they were fully booked and asked
me to change my sked. So I cancelled instead. Called taal vista and they
confirmed upon the first phone call. I know it may sound impossible but i will
try my best to get nurture spa off agoda, they are making agodas service a
joke.