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Madison at Greenbelt 5

Posted by dateplacesph on 9/21/09 • Categorized as Fine Dining

A friend has been raving about Madison at Greenbelt 5 and finally, I was lucky enough to be able to join a business lunch at the place. I guess its unfortunate also as I couldn’t take pictures of everybody’s food and I couldn’t jot down my usual notes on prices, but I’ll share with you the general idea.

Madison at Greenbelt 5 - green view

ambiance

Madison is a posh posh posh restaurant at Greenbelt 5. It’s one of those restaurants you’ll be afraid to try because you’re not certain of whether the food will be worth the price. Luckily somebody else paid for my meal.

Madison looks like a place for power lunches and business meetings

The place looks and feels expensive, and its certainly not the place to give you a homey feel. The high-back chairs, thin fonts, glass casings, red tableware will confirm that you are paying for a restaurant as much for its furnishings as for its food.

The place isn’t particularly romantic either. It’s something about the stiff decors that puts me off, and for me, I really wouldn’t bring a date here. It gives off a fake feel that I don’t want my date to think of me, too.

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Madison Steaks and Comforting Food

The Madison menu

Free Focaccia bread with butter is served while waiting for food and it’s soft enough.

Soft foaccia bread best with butter

We shared the Madison Vigan Longganisa, Red Egg, Shallots, Laguna Cheese pizza (P490) and it was great. You’d expect the pizza to be salty what with the cheese and the longganisa, but the chef has managed to tame the saltiness by using pure mozzarella and adding salt-absorbing, sweet flavors on the pizza such as fresh vegetables and little oil. I recommend this.

Yummy Longganisa pizza- not too salty! Split with your date

Then I got Pan Rosted Cream Dory with pineapple citrus relish and mango buerre blanco (P380), and it was so-so. It wasn’t the best dory I’ve tasted and I didn’t even finish the dish, considering how ravenous I can get specially that no carbs were served with the fish (no chips or potatoes here), but it was decent. I actually think the Fish and Chips at Fish & Co. tastes a lot better.

Pan roasted dory - strange tasting

My friends got the Crispy Spinanch and Feta Ravioli with tomato coriander sauce (P210) and the Smoked Salmon and 2 Herb Cream Cheese sandwich (P399). Photos below:

Smoked salmon sandwich with lots of chips

Crispy spinach things - don't get this

Generous servings though, I wouldn’t hide that. Madison didn’t scrimp on your plate – our boss ordered roast chicken and I swear it could have been half a chicken there piled on top of his plate.

I wish I could’ve tasted it.

Post-meal

We didn’t have room for dessert given how stuffed we were with Madison’s main meal, but we were pleasantly surprised when we requested for tea and then we were served an array of colorful, delectable-looking tea flavors. Looking at the brightly-colored candy wrappers, you’d think it’s actually chocolate!

Chocolates? No - tea!

budget

Madison is a little pricey – expect to shell out about P500 per person for a meal, and another P100 each for splitting dessert.

tip

Again, the food is okay but somehow, this doesn’t top my list of date places, especially when you spend P500 each in a place that reeks of business men having power lunches. I would recommend other date places listed under Fine Dining.

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