Sabreen's Seafood Restaurant - Ermita

A few weeks ago, we had lunch at Sabreen's Seafood Market Restaurant along J. Bocobo St. in Malate. It is located just across from Hizon's. Parking is available in front (free), but is limited. They have a guard who can watch over your car. Sabreen's Seafood Market Restaurant is newly-renovated from the previous Seafood Market, and is under new management. The current owner was a regular customer who decided to take over when the previous owner planned to sell. When I entered Sabreen's, I couldn't believe such a nice restaurant existed in the heart of Malate. The decor is very luxurious for a "palutuan" - with velvet chairs and Mediterranean touches, and a COOL AIRCON, a definite must in the Manila heat! SABREEN'S SEAFOOD MARKET RESTAURANT INTERIORS There is a very nice waiting area that greets you when you enter. Once you enter the restaurant, on the right, you'll see the seafood display section where you can pick out what you would like to have cooked. The interiors are very luxurious, something you would not expect in downtown Malate. There are windows into the kitchen where you can watch your food being cooked. FOOD "SHOPPING" After reserving a table, we went "shopping" for our food. There is a seafood display area / market on the right side of the restaurant where you can pick the food you want cooked. Prices are indicated. You are also given a small shopping cart to put your purchases in :) The meal was a treat so I don't know how much our orders came out to. There is generally no cooking charge, except for maybe special orders. You are charged the price of the seafood you buy, the cooking is already included in the seafood price. THE FOOD We started with the Clam Ginger Soup. It was light and clean tasting, a perfect start to our seafood fiesta. We also ordered some Baked Scallops. For some semblance of healthy eating, we had this Mixed Vegetables with Oyster Sauce, which was actually quite good. It was smoky yet delicately flavored, I didn't even mind that it was vegetarian and ate a lot of this. We also had some Grilled Salmon with Lemon Butter Sauce. One of my favorites is this Fried Squid. I think it was Salt & Pepper Squid. It had a light batter, the squid was cooked just right, it was tender and not tough. It went really well with the accompanying vinegar. My other favorite dishes were the Fried Shrimp in Chili Sauce and the Crab in Chili Sauce. The sweet meat of the perfectly cooked crab was addictive. I wish I could have eaten more of the shrimp, too, but they were gone in 60 seconds!   We also ordered the Pineapple Fried Rice, which had A LOT of pineapple chunks, which was okay with me, but others who didn't like pineapple so much thought that it was too much pineapple. We also had the Steamed Lapu-Lapu. The Lapu-lapu was alive just a few minutes ago and was even jumping around in our cart! I have a thing about overcooked steamed fish and this was not overcooked. Awesome. Fresh, fresh, fresh! Since no one seemed interested in them, I ate the fish cheeks and fish meat at the back of the fish head, the yummiest parts, IMHO. If you know how to eat steamed fish, you know what I'm talking about!  It's just not so pretty because they made a slit on the fish to make it cook more evenly and avoid overcooking. SUMMARY During the course of our meal, we saw a lot of foreigners patronizing the restaurant, so I think it is a good place to take relatives or foreign guests for a seafood meal if you don't want to venture too far, especially if they are staying in the Malate / Manila area. It is also a very nice place for a family meal, and it's big enough to accommodate the entire clan. Sabreen's is also much cleaner than going seafood shopping at Dampa. You can wear your nice clothes / shoes and not worry about getting palengke gunk on them. The renovations were done very well - the place looks like a palace! The food is fresh, especially if you go for the live fish, crabs or lobsters! The experience of choosing your food at a restaurant before it is cooked is usually a unique experience for most people, and it's something that your guests will remember for a long time. Also, I'm all praises for the cooks who turned out such delicious, mouthwatering dishes so quickly! I was happy with all the food we had. Even the simple vegetable dishes were perfectly done. baratako.com

A few weeks ago, we had lunch at Sabreen's Seafood Market Restaurant along J. Bocobo St. in Malate. It is located just across from Hizon's. Parking is available in front (free), but is limited. They have a guard who can watch over your car. Sabreen's Seafood Market Restaurant is newly-renovated from the previous Seafood Market, and is under new management. The current owner was a regular customer who decided to take over when the previous owner planned to sell. When I entered Sabreen's, I couldn't believe such a nice restaurant existed in the heart of Malate. The decor is very luxurious for a "palutuan" - with velvet chairs and Mediterranean touches, and a COOL AIRCON, a definite must in the Manila heat! SABREEN'S SEAFOOD MARKET RESTAURANT INTERIORS There is a very nice waiting area that greets you when you enter. Once you enter the restaurant, on the right, you'll see the seafood display section where you can pick out what you would like to have cooked. The... read more

A few weeks ago, we had lunch at Sabreen's Seafood Market Restaurant along J. Bocobo St. in Malate. It is located just across from Hizon's. Parking is available in front (free), but is limited. They have a guard who can watch over your car. Sabreen's Seafood Market Restaurant is newly-renovated from the previous Seafood Market, and is under new management. The current owner was a regular customer who decided to take over when the previous owner planned to sell. When I entered Sabreen's, I couldn't believe such a nice restaurant existed in the heart of Malate. The decor is very luxurious for a "palutuan" - with velvet chairs and Mediterranean touches, and a COOL AIRCON, a definite must in the Manila heat! SABREEN'S SEAFOOD MARKET RESTAURANT INTERIORS There is a very nice waiting area that greets you when you enter. Once you enter the restaurant, on the right, you'll see the seafood display section where you can pick out what you would like to have cooked. The interiors are very luxurious, something you would not expect in downtown Malate. There are windows into the kitchen where you can watch your food being cooked. FOOD "SHOPPING" After reserving a table, we went "shopping" for our food. There is a seafood display area / market on the right side of the restaurant where you can pick the food you want cooked. Prices are indicated. You are also given a small shopping cart to put your purchases in :) The meal was a treat so I don't know how much our orders came out to. There is generally no cooking charge, except for maybe special orders. You are charged the price of the seafood you buy, the cooking is already included in the seafood price. THE FOOD We started with the Clam Ginger Soup. It was light and clean tasting, a perfect start to our seafood fiesta. We also ordered some Baked Scallops. For some semblance of healthy eating, we had this Mixed Vegetables with Oyster Sauce, which was actually quite good. It was smoky yet delicately flavored, I didn't even mind that it was vegetarian and ate a lot of this. We also had some Grilled Salmon with Lemon Butter Sauce. One of my favorites is this Fried Squid. I think it was Salt & Pepper Squid. It had a light batter, the squid was cooked just right, it was tender and not tough. It went really well with the accompanying vinegar. My other favorite dishes were the Fried Shrimp in Chili Sauce and the Crab in Chili Sauce. The sweet meat of the perfectly cooked crab was addictive. I wish I could have eaten more of the shrimp, too, but they were gone in 60 seconds!   We also ordered the Pineapple Fried Rice, which had A LOT of pineapple chunks, which was okay with me, but others who didn't like pineapple so much thought that it was too much pineapple. We also had the Steamed Lapu-Lapu. The Lapu-lapu was alive just a few minutes ago and was even jumping around in our cart! I have a thing about overcooked steamed fish and this was not overcooked. Awesome. Fresh, fresh, fresh! Since no one seemed interested in them, I ate the fish cheeks and fish meat at the back of the fish head, the yummiest parts, IMHO. If you know how to eat steamed fish, you know what I'm talking about!  It's just not so pretty because they made a slit on the fish to make it cook more evenly and avoid overcooking. SUMMARY During the course of our meal, we saw a lot of foreigners patronizing the restaurant, so I think it is a good place to take relatives or foreign guests for a seafood meal if you don't want to venture too far, especially if they are staying in the Malate / Manila area. It is also a very nice place for a family meal, and it's big enough to accommodate the entire clan. Sabreen's is also much cleaner than going seafood shopping at Dampa. You can wear your nice clothes / shoes and not worry about getting palengke gunk on them. The renovations were done very well - the place looks like a palace! The food is fresh, especially if you go for the live fish, crabs or lobsters! The experience of choosing your food at a restaurant before it is cooked is usually a unique experience for most people, and it's something that your guests will remember for a long time. Also, I'm all praises for the cooks who turned out such delicious, mouthwatering dishes so quickly! I was happy with all the food we had. Even the simple vegetable dishes were perfectly done. baratako.com

A few weeks ago, we had lunch at Sabreen's Seafood Market Restaurant along J. Bocobo St. in Malate. It is located just across from Hizon's. Parking is available in front (free), but is limited. They have a guard who can watch over your car. Sabreen's Seafood Market Restaurant is newly-renovated from the previous Seafood Market, and is under new management. The current owner was a regular customer who decided to take over when the previous owner planned to sell. When I entered Sabreen's, I couldn't believe such a nice restaurant existed in the heart of Malate. The decor is very luxurious for a "palutuan" - with velvet chairs and Mediterranean touches, and a COOL AIRCON, a definite must in the Manila heat! SABREEN'S SEAFOOD MARKET RESTAURANT INTERIORS There is a very nice waiting area that greets you when you enter. Once you enter the restaurant, on the right, you'll see the seafood display section where you can pick out what you would like to have cooked. The... read more

Last night we tried her seafood buffet. lunch or dinner is 799 pesos, although the choices are limited, but safe as we do if they ask the first one they do not ask for 2nd round. we ordered sweet and sour maya, deep roast lapu lapu, garnelen in garlic and butter, sweet and sour maya, calamare, a huge crab in chili sauce and clam soup. taste was good and satisfying. for me the price was worth it. plus points for the presentation are to the employees who are always behind them and ask themselves to need something. they also have Wi-Fi, so they can upload immediately. I would highly recommend this resto and would probably go back if I were for crumbs, garnel and fish craved!