Giligan's Island @ Ayala Terraces

Friends have all things in common. Plato

Last week one of my classmates in college went here in Cebu City to have a short vacation together with his wife. And so, I texted all our other classmates that are already based here to meet him and dine together. Despite of our busy schedule we still manage to arrive at the given restaurant although some of us came up late but it doesn't matter as long as we'll see each other again. We decided to dine at Giligan's Island located at the The Terraces of Ayala Center. The restaurant interior is so-so and it doesn't have an appeal to me, we talked about the Giligan's at Tagaytay, Manila about their famous Salpicao dish and that's the reason why we choose that restaurant. While waiting for the others to arrive we began to order our food, and guess what to our dismay their popular dish the Salpicao is not available what!?ok, then I choose the sizzling gambas the waiter said it's not available, mixed seafood it's available but it doesn't have a shrimp,ok so I ordered grilled bangus belly it's still not available what!?so I ordered Sinuglaw and so I asked the waiter all your seafood dishes is not available?and then he answered "no ma'am, some were available" and so I told him "so, you want us to guess your available dishes?"and so I thought this is such a disaster. And when I ordered my drinks I asked for their pineapple juice it's not available,ok, orange juice it's available but it was mixed with mango what!?why putting it on the menu as orange juice alone?another disaster and so to be safe I ordered mineral water duh! Such a waste of time ordering and then, it's not available. Next, my classmates ordered, sizzling salmon not available so they ordered sizzling squid, sizzling bangus belly it's not available,so they ordered sauteed Imbao clam shells, grilled tuna belly it's not available so they ordered the mixed seafood without the shrimp. We just burst our laughter every time the waiter would say "it's not available" and tell our classmates "wrong guess again", and so here comes our ordered let's start with my sizzling chicken sisig well, it's not sizzling and the taste is bland, sinuglaw is so-so, sizzling squid what!? it's not sizzling and it looks like a sauteed squid, sauteed Imbao clams it's not hot and so,we just said to ourselves "if you microwave our order please do it properly it's not really hot it's just came fresh from their cooler"; and other dishes came out. Out of all that dishes only the  mixed seafood taste average the rest of the dish a two thumbs down for me. The service is also a thumbs down imagine, you have to call their attention just to follow-up your other orders cause if you don't do that they will eventually forget about it just like my mineral water OMG! this is really a bad dining experience for all of us. We just felt ok when the band started singing thus, we felt lively again.

It's such a perfect reunion if it was not ruined by the restaurant and the food we ate. It's an al-fresco dining restaurant located at The Terraces of Ayala so you would really expect that the food and the service is excellent! We do expect that dinner would cost us "an arm and a leg" but it doesn't matter as long as the food was great but then, with this experience it really matter because the food and the service is a total thumbs down!