Tabares Phillippine Market

Best pancit and lumpia that I have had in Universal City. You can even buy the lumpia frozen by the dozen and fry them at home yourself!

Very clean with well stocked shelves but somewhat reticent staff

Clean, great food (buffet is best around lunch time) and an Asian grocery store all in one

Love Tabares. Great food, good prices. Lumpia is especially good, awesome desserts, lunch buffet is great. Still need to try the breakfast, so that's next on the list. I've been going to Tabares a long time and I've never had any complaints.

Grew up in California, had lots of Filipino friends, but never have I seen an actual Filipino restaurant (Jollibee didn't have Filipino food I find at my friends'!)

So I ran into this place and said "OH! Why not?!" And I'm glad I did!! Food was great! Probably more rice than I would need - 2 round balls of time per entree (people think Chinese people eat a lot of rice... Oh boy they're wrong!)

I gave 5 stars for the yummy food but don't expect great service or speedy service. I was a tad confused as to sit down first or order first but saw a sign that said order here so I stood around and waited a little. They did bring the food to the table but everything appears to be cooked one table at a time. At one point I thought there was only two workers but I think there are more.

Going to go back to try the house fried chicken! Smells do good...