Promdi Kitchen Bar

If you’re looking for real Filipino food that will fill you up, this is not the place for you. Honestly, just came here for my friend who played with her band, if it wasn’t for her, we wouldn’t even be here. There’s only two waiters and what looks like the manager is serving the food. Portions are small AND there’s no rice included in most meals. We had to re-​do our check twice because they overcharged us with entrees and then charged us two dollars more for drinks ($ 12 for Long Island iced tea though the menu says $ 10). It’s just disappointing. The only good thing that happened this night was I got to see my friends. Otherwise, I definitely do not recommend eating here. Stick to Renee’s Ihawan or Tito Rad’s for your authentic Filipino food that won’t leave you hungry or unhappy.

Best Kare kare, Bagnet, and Gising-​gising the place is clean and cozy compared to other Filipino restaurant definitely will come back again
We visit twice all staff are friendly

One of the best Filipino restos in New York.
Seriously.
We always order Pansit ng promdi, lumpia ng promdi, isawsaw, sinigang na liempo/​bagnet, bagnet kare kare, ginataang sitaw at kalabasa, and lechon kawali, sisig…
With 8 – 10 hungry people in tow, don’t expect us to just order 4 entrees.
Some nights they have live bands and karaōke.
I’ll definitely recommend this place to my friends and family.

Love this place. Great food and very accommodating esp with a large party. I recommend pansit Ng promdi, I saw, and lumpia. So oooooooo freaking good. I’ve tried all the filipinos places around the area and this is the best one.

Good service! Good food! (Really good desserts). Just had my stepdad’s birthday party at this location. I recommend this Filipino restaurant.

My friend invited me to have dinner and I was brought here. The décor was nice and there a lot of tables. On a Saturday night, we came into the restaurant to hear a live band playing. So much for having a nice convo. But the music was nice and the band was entertaining nonetheless. The waitress gave us our menus. But took forever to take our orders even our drink order. My friend had to flag her down a lot of times. But looks like this is customary because he wasnt too annoyed. Ha. Finally our drink order came in. Then my friends food came in. Waiting waiting and more waiting for mine. The waitress finally said she apologized and that the chef was working on the order. Sheesh. So when the order finally came in, I was surprised to see how flavorful the dish was. It was very good. I ordered a egg noodle dish with fried pork. We finished our meal but stayed longer to listen to the live band. The service was terrible, but the food and music made up for it. This was my first time having Philippino cuisine and it wont be my last. However, I might think twice about coming back to this particular establishment.

We visit this place less than a hour ago, we tried to get the buffet that cost almost $ 11.00 each. Me and my husband took the Kare-​Kare, adobo, sinigang and the «Pancit». While eating the food my husband chewed something rubber thingy (Rubber matt from the floor, I think!)on the Pancit. We can’t explain where it came from. All I know is, this was not part of Pancit ingredients. (just see picture attached). He almost swallow the black rubber. After that, we called the attention of the waitress and complained on what we saw. And she just took the rubber and show it to the chef. When she came back, we asked for the check right away and never finish the food, cause we get paranoid, imagining how they prepared or cooked the food without proper handling.
Plus they never give any consideration regarding this matter, even try to apologize. They just pretend that nothing happen and charge us the whole bill and asked for gratuity of 18%. This place just ruined our weekend. #kapalface

Had dinner at Promdi this evening and found the food to be much better than some of the other Filipino restaurants in area. We ordered Sisig, Kare Kare, Tuna Belly, and Bulaklak. All the dishes were tasty and the portions were generous. No complaints as far as service goes. Joseph our waiter was kind and courteous.

Me and friend went there on a thursday afternoon… The place was empty so we thought we would get really good service… Apparently not, the wait staff were really nice but everytime you ask for water it’s like they’re deaf or doing something else. We ordered kalamares, caldereta, tinolang manok, tortang talong and the maselan… The maselan was not good except for the sauce which was mayo and ketchup. The tinolang manok had too much oil but it was okay. Kalamares was okay nothing special about it… The only 4 star thing was the kaldereta which tasted really good surprisingly. The really funny thing was that the main courses came first and the appetizers came last… i think the cook was being lazy because he saw only 2 people in the resto that he took his time cooking… Also i dont think the exhaust fan works there because once he started cooking you can feel that smoke from the kitchen eventhough we were sitting really close to the bar… I think they’re management needs to make some changes or more training with the staff especially with he cooks before serving another customer so that the filipino community can embrace them…

Not sure why others are leaving bad reviews, since my experience at the restaurant was pleasantly good.
Pros– The appetizers were good & my bf’s mix and match meat dish was good… Clean bathroom. Nice waiter.
Cons– a bit overpriced for small portions, the speaker was too loud, my seafood thin noodle dish is something I never want to have again…

The buffet is overpriced. We spent 40, including tips, for two. They have only 8 selections. The food is Okay, but too many pork. There are only one chicken and one fish dishes.
Their regular menu seems interesting though but I can only rate their buffet.

I went here thinking it was a steak place like it was used to be. The place was empty on a Saturday night, thinking we lucked out that there were available tables. The place was very clean and inviting with a modern ambiance and a full bar. The menu looked appetizing with their play-​on twist on traditional dishes with mostly a la carte plates. Most of my party ordered pork dishes such as «crispy kare-​kare». To make a long story short, their version of traditional filipino dishe are inedible. It seems like a group of friends who were inspired by Food Network decided to start their own style of filipino retaurant with their spin-​off of traditional dishes. Their versions are basically fried pork drowned with the sauces according to your order – fried pieces of pork drowned with dinuguan sauce, kare-​kare sauce, etc. You get the picture. The service was mediocre, long wait for your order. No wonder the place was empty on a Saturday night. Had I known that I and the members of my party would end up with unpleasant after taste in our mouths that lasted until Sunday afternoon, I would have gone to the balut vendor on the sidewalk or the taco truck parked outside. Or rather eat shit.

Came here for lunch buffet on Sunday. Found a hair in my string beans. I decided to continue to try everything else. The food is oily and greasy. I have had much better food at the neighboring filipino restaurants.

We have been waiting for our food for 30 mins now. Not even an appetizer is out. There are only 2 occupied tables!!!
Update: The food is just as bad as the service. Bland fried chicken. Garlic rice with no garlic. The crispy pata without mang tomas sauce? The sinigang was super salty. The pancit was overly sour. Ive had better Filipino food from a street market. Disgrace to the Philippines.
Go around the corner to Ihawan. Hell, even Jollibee is better.

How my ratings work:
5 star — loved everything about it
4 star — very good and will be returning
3 star — not incredibly good but you decide
2 star — one or more things bother me here
1 star — never come
Décor
This place’s décor is better than most Filipino restaurants I’ve been too. Large space, clean and somewhat modern. That’s if you exclude the wood panel designs on mirrors that look like a 5 year old cut out.
Singing
I heard in many Filipino restaurants in the Philippines have live singing outdoors. That’s lively and entertaining. However, when you are in a enclosed space trying to have a conversation with friends — it becomes annoying. Especially when they are shouting more than they are singing.
Food
It wasn’t terrible but it wasn’t really that great. Grilled chicken was more like an oven baked chicken drowned in sweet soy. I thought grilled chicken was just a BBQ chicken breast on a grill.
Kare Kare I’ve never been a fan of but correct me if I’m wrong — it’s suppose to be ox tail and not big chunks of fried pork belly or pig trotter right?
Sisig was okay. Nothing to complain about although this version has a spicy kick.

I hardly post reviews here in Unilocal,but when I do it means that I get this necessary push to do so.
I love food. I love Filipino food. I usually eat anything and everything that’s Filipino, no matter the way it was cooked or if it tastes good or not. This is the very first time I got turned off by it though. I did not know that this could even happen.
There are reasons as to why there isn’t much people eating from this new establishment, and hopefully they would accept this criticism openly.
First off, we had to wait a long while at the front being as there’s no hostess to accept us in. There was only one server and she was busy taking orders from a group of 4. While waiting there were a few curious people wandering around the front, looking at the menu and hesitant to come in. These are missed opportunities.
Second, accepting the fact that the server will probably not take our order for quite a while since she’s busy sending out food and taking orders from people who got in before us, I secretly hoped that once we do place our orders in the food should come out pretty fast.
I was mistaken, of course. It took them 1 hour to take 1 of our entrees out, and about an additional 15 minutes for the rest. This is a bad sign, considering it was only a party of 4 that got ahead of us. The other party even had a problem with 1 of their entrees, a fish stew (sinigang) which was undercooked (how they can undercook fish I will never understand).
The food looked great. There was an effort in making these dishes to look spectacular. They used a plate with a bowl in the middle, so it looks like the ½ Saturn, the plate part being the rings and the bowl part being the lower half of the planet. This would make an effect that the food we got look like it’s a small serving, but in the middle there would be more underneath.
I also saw a fried fish dish being handed out by the server to the other customers that has the fish not lying on the plate, but standing up, making it look like a piece of art. I wished, before taking my first bite, that along with the extravagant presentation, that the flavor and taste would be there as well. I was mistaken again.
We ordered the crispy dinuguan, sisig, and bagnetgoongan (fusion of binagoongan and bagnet), and a side order of their version of rice. The dinuguan had small chopped fried pork belly in it too, which did not give a satisfying crunch, but instead a soggy, need-​to-​relentlessly-​chew over-​fried pieces of meat. The dinuguan sauce was almost like water, and was lacking flavor, texture and acidity. I also don’t think that the supposed crispiness of the fried pork meshes well with the original dinuguan, which is soft tangy pieces of meat. The sisig was served the popular way, with a sizzling plate that is not sizzling, therefore no satisfying crackling noise when the raw egg was mixed along with the squeeze of lemon juice. There was a very thin slice of the lemon, not enough to cover all the meat on the sizzling plate. What’s worse is we got it too burnt, where all we tasted was the burnt, charred, smoky parts of the meat which killed the flavor of everything else. The bagnetgoongan at first was not served. They seemed to mistakenly give us the pinakbet + bagnet entrée instead. So one of the kitchen aide who helped the lone server hand out dishes, said that this would be complementary, and asked us to wait for our last entrée. The pinakbet vegetables were over cooked just like everything else. The eggplant had just melted away and even the string beans did not have their usual crisp texture. While having these and waiting for the final dish I really really hoped that it would be the one to redeem all the flaws and disppointments we just experienced and yet again it did not deliver. The bagnet was 95% skin and fat. There were huge cuts of it being just skin and fat and while the young people would appreciate these, I’m pretty sure the old ones would not. We also finally got our side order of the tininapahan rice, and this was the one that came in last. The rice was too dry, and it looked like they just mixed small bits of fish in it.
Growing up as a Filipino we were taught not to be wasteful, the server even offered to put the left overs in a bag, but we declined. Having no pets at home, I am pretty sure nobody will eat it.
I love giving second chances. Hopefully next time I visit, it wouldn’t take long to be seated and get our food, and more importantly, that the taste and flavor would be there to back up these little pieces of art.

You don’t throw the baby out with the bath water. Credit to the restaurateurs behind Promdi for keeping the décor of the former inhabitant, SizzleMe Steakhouse, largely intact, as that was SizzleMe’s strongest feature.
As such, Promdi likely enjoys the distinction of having the most upscale environment of any Queens-​based Filipino restaurant (I’ll accept arguments for Tito Rad’s), which makes it a place to think of if you have out-​of-​town guests with a craving for Filipino.
But the setting alone shouldn’t be what you come for, and Promdi’s food delivers the goods. We tried the Sisig because, well, we love Sisig. And because it makes for a good way for us to compare restaurants. It came out sizzling (as it should be), and a tad burnt and crispy (also as it should be). As far as Sisig goes, this is the best I’ve had on this side of the planet, and it reminded me of my first time trying Sisig while in the Philippines, in a bar where your chances of getting drunk and getting stabbed were about equal. Ah, the good times!
For those unfamiliar with Sisig, it is made out of pork bits and stuff you probably don’t really want to know about. So like a good hot dog or sausage, think happy thoughts, start chewing, and enjoy.
Also tried their chicken adobo, and again as a comparison point. What can I say? I like my own and my mom’s adobo better than anyone else’s, and everyone makes theirs somewhat different. Promdi’s adobo was satisfying, but I’m biased towards my own homecooked versions.
I ordered Tocino/​Langonisa (Promdi’s version of Longanisa) from the Almusal section of the menu — this is what most Filipino restaurants list as their breakfast menu with the Tocilog/​Longsilog etc. format (To = «tocino,» Si = «garlic fried rice,» Log = «Egg»). You can mix and match meats from the menu, so I got half tocino and half langonisa. The tocino was very similar to what you will find in other Filipino restaurants, but the Langonisa is quite different: it is a sausage patty, as opposed to the traditional sausage links. It was okay, but I prefer the longanisa I grew up with.
Lastly, I ordered a drink called Pipi-​nyo: fresh cucumber, pineapple juice, and cream I believe were the main ingredients. Very tasty and refreshing!
I enjoyed my first visit to Promdi, and I hope to return many more times. Best of luck to the new establishment. And thank you to our server, who was quite attentive and did a great job of explaining some of the nuances of the menu items.