Nipa Hut Bar & Restaurant

Great tasting food! I was here for dinner last night and back today for lunch! I had Sinigang Pork and Sizzling Bangus. Sooo good!

We came for brunch. It serves delicious breakfast! Our most recent trip my family got 4 of the breakfast dishes. We couldn’t have been happier. Longsilog (sweet sausage links), Tapsilog (beef slices), Tocilong (sweet pork) and Daksilog (fried fish). You can choose garlic rice or steamed rice and it comes with 2 eggs. Try them all!
We also got the BBQ sticks! My kids loved them. Tender pork pieces with yummy sweet sauce.
You have to try the Laing. It is green leaves stewed in coconut milk with ginger a little spicy and pieces or meat. YUM!!!
The server was very helpful and did his job well. Drinks were refilled promptly and plates cleared when finished.

The location of Nipa Hut is questionable… We almost didn’t go in because of how desecrate the connecting hotel looked. My mom was craving Filipino food because she was so tired of eating American food while we were on our 2.5 week vacation. I’m glad we still decided to give them a shot. Our server was very nice and we enjoyed the food.

I try to always stop here when I’m either flying in or out of Orlando — or both. It’s not too far off I-​4 and the service is usually fast and always friendly. I always get the Lechon Kawali and Lumpia. I’ve tried their Lunch specials of long-​silog and tocilog and they are great too, but you can only order them during the lunch hours.
Great place to stop.

My friend and I stopped in at Nipa Hut for lunch today. Juvi was very friendly, helpful, and made great suggestions! We ordered sago at gulaman, Kare-​kare, pork dinuguan, sontanghon, and halo halo. Everything tasted delicious! I highly recommend the halo halo!

First timer at this restaurant and I was pleased to see how packed the restaurant was! Anyway, I’ve been craving Filipino cuisine ever since I moved to Pittsburgh. So when my cousin asked if I wanted to eat at Nipa Hut, I quickly obliged.
Filipino food usually takes a long time to cook and I was expecting to be waiting FOREVER for my food to come out. But we didn’t! Great food if you don’t have time to cook it yourself. Had the sizzling bangus, sisig, sinigang, bbq sticks, and halo halo.
You can order in advance so you don’t have to wait.

Service is very slow as they seem extremely understaffed. I’ve never had Filipino food before so I have to preface this review with the distinct possibility that I just don’t like Filipino food. Maybe all Filipino cuisine tastes bad to me. I dunno. I’ll have to try another restaurant.
The bad:
Strike 1: I ended up with a bottle of flat beer. Maybe that Beer Below Zero thing ain’t as great as the weird marketing flyers you have on the table claim.
Strike 2: The menu lacks description and is schilling shady Internet marketing scams. I don’t want to buy your Moringa root cleanse. What the hell is Tocilog? It looks like raw meat and one of those microwave eggs they put on McMuffins. I shouldn’t have to google Filipino food to figure out my order.
Strike 3: The adobo pork was really really bad. It was at least half fatty gristle. The adobo sauce tastes distinctly similar to Dinty Moore beef stew. The rice was old and had congealed into a singular wad of firm mush.
The bottom line is this is a hotel lobby restaurant. Those are rarely good. The staff is inattentive, the food is poor, and the atmosphere is non existent. Well barely existent. They did have a daytime Filipino talk show going on their television.

First off, I have to say ratings are debunked mostly due to service as the few times I’ve been here it’s been slow for them and even slower service in getting to my table. Last time (i.e. last week) I just went to the server area myself to get what condiments and napkins we needed. I felt pretty rude but there wasn’t a server in sight and I notice my server tended to defect to my mother for everything since she ordered in Tagalog…
HOWEVER – the food is good and portions are generous! If you can get over the consistently slow and sometimes all together lacking service you can indulge in the large portion orders for a cheap price. Sisig, Sinigang, lechon kawali, chicken adobo, and an order of pork eggrolls filled up our table and practically had our party of 3 rolling out the door. Authenic, flavorful, and at a good price for those in need of a Filipino food fix for both homey and easy to make as well as not so easy to make pinoy foods can enjoy it all here (after all I don’t know about you but I don’t keep a sisig hot plate in my pantry). All food comes out fresh and piping hot so please exercise caution on the innocent looking foods like eggrolls when taking that first bite.
One thing to personally note for this last visit was they didn’t seem to have an calamansi, which I feel is a huge component to a truly authentic meal but also is pivotal to understand that Calamansi blooms and bears fruit in the spring/​summer seasons, so during this time of the year is overall a luxury item.
Also if you come within time for the lunch special (which ends at 1:00 PM, not sure when it starts) you can get a huge meal for a great price!