Chateau 1771 was one of the first restaurants to open in the new Greenbelt 5.  I had dined in its various outlets in the past including Sentro in Greenbelt 3 so I am quite familiar with its menu. 

I recently had a reunion with my two good friends from the bank Bebette, now based in Honkong and Rita who is still with BPI.  We all agreed to have dinner here but I was late since my car was on coding.  They have ordered and finished their soup and salad when I arrived.

I had to order some hot soup as is staple in any of my main meal and the only one without cream was French onion soup.  There is nothing special though in its taste.

 For my main meal, since I was staying away from meat, I chose one of their chef recommendations which they call Prawn Butterly, described as stuffed with mushroom and cheese.  When it arrived, it was just the good old  prawns thermidor.

Bebette ordered Tilapia fillet since she has been missing this local fare and Rita some beef specialty.

  There were lots of dessert choices but like Rita and Bebette was stuck to the tried and tested, Coffee Pie, made out of Chocolate-cashew crust with coffee filling topped with cream cheese and toffee sauce.  If only for this you would like to keep coming back in this place.

There was a big party held in another side of the restaurant then.  Rita overheard some girls complaining of the service but in our case all went well. We didnt have to follow up and our choice of meals were excellent.

Address:  Ground Floor, Greenbelt 5 Ayala Center, Makati, MM

Telephones: +63917 862 6467, +63 2 729-9760 to 61

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  I was able to try the place twice.  The first time was just a short visit since we just had a quick meeting.  I was able to only try the chicken galantina sandwich which I failed to take a picture of but I would highly recommend.  They used a pandesal bread with some lettuce added so it was quite filling.

   My favorite though in this place is the health drink called Tubig ni Maria Clara which is made up of Cucumber juice, ginger syrup and citrus water. Unfortunately it only comes in a pitcher so you must at least be three people to finish this. 

  I failed to write the name of this salad but it is made up of lettuce and argula veggies, onions, ham, strips of green mangoes, and the chinese haw flakes. You use the green veggies to wrap all the ingredients then bite, something similar to the chopped duck in the chinese restaurants which you wrap in lettuce.  It was a novelty so I tried it.  Good enough I believe.

  This was a chicken meal, stuffed with sticky rice.  Another friend of mine ordered fish relleno which just looks very similar.  The relleno was made up of around 3-4 slices. It was kinda pricey for the size.  The chicken tasted a bit bland.  The relleno was tastier.  The viands were not that heavy so if you are really hungery better order something with bigger portions.

   We stayed at the patio since it has better view of the greenbelt greens.  I also found out there were steps on both ends of the patio which one can use to go up or down straight to the other floors.  The problem was the mosquitoes and there were lots of them!  My friend suggested for them to put some plants which repel mosquitoes considering the dengue scare nowadays.

The food was not really impressive compared to Fish out of Water.  The service leaves much to be desired.  I heard other customers complaining of the slow service on both occasions I was there.  

On my second visit,  my friend and I had a late dinner after the last mass in Don Bosco therefore we also finished dinner late but the waiter kept bugging us to pay our bill and leave the place for they were closing soon.  So much for customer service you might say. 

I would just give this restaurant two stars because of the service and not all meals are consistently good.

Address:  Unit 2-053 Greenelt 5, Ayala Center, Makati, MM
Telefax: (632) 729-5511

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