This is the first restaurant review for the HCC site but I just had to share how awful our food experience was at CYMA in Alabang Town Center a few nights ago. My husband and I decided to have some "delicious Greek food" and were happy to hear that Cyma was now open on the 2nd level of the Corte de las Palmas (where Good Earth used to be).
The place was small but looked nice, the wait staff very friendly and attentive but the food... YIKES! We ordered basic Greek food that no Greek resto should be able to screw up and they failed on all basic dishes. To start, we ordered a Greek salad - usually a no-brainer that anyone can make at home due to its only having 5 ingredients. Our Greek salad came with farfalle (bowtie) pasta, (??) and hardly had any cucumbers nor tomatoes, and worst of all, the dressing was a brown creamy vinagrette that looked like HP sauce. Tasted bottled and I think it was.
Then the Kalamarakia - deep fried calamari - tasted like rubber dipped in flour and fried, with no seasoning whatsoever. My favorite Spanakopita - spinach in filo pastry - was pretty tasteless but at least the pastry was lovely. My husband's chicken dish was the only ok thing we had but then again, we could've ordered roast chicken from S&R and eaten that at home. I also looked at the table next to us and their "saganaki" dip looked like pure thousand island dressing. Yikes yikes yikes.
I was so so disappointed. I love Greek food and grew up having it from Greek friends' houses so maybe I'm being picky but please save your money and stay away... at least until they get their food right. Maybe it's just that they've only been open less than a month.
For my money, Cafe Med is a way better bet. Happy New Year!
