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    Café Flora is a Filipino-themed all-you-can-eat buffet located in Marikina Hotel that attracts many tourists due to its affordable prices. However, the food quality is inconsistent and often not fresh, with appetizers, soups, and main dishes sometimes being cold or overcooked. While the atmosphere is elegant and relaxing, the management needs to improve food preparation by adopting a mindset of striving for excellence instead of mediocrity to ensure customers have a consistently good dining experience.

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    Café Flora is a Filipino-themed all-you-can-eat buffet located in Marikina Hotel that attracts many tourists due to its affordable prices. However, the food quality is inconsistent and often not fresh, with appetizers, soups, and main dishes sometimes being cold or overcooked. While the atmosphere is elegant and relaxing, the management needs to improve food preparation by adopting a mindset of striving for excellence instead of mediocrity to ensure customers have a consistently good dining experience.

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    Café Flora is a Filipino-themed all-you-can-eat buffet located in Marikina Hotel that attracts many tourists due to its affordable prices. However, the food quality is inconsistent and often not fresh, with appetizers, soups, and main dishes sometimes being cold or overcooked. While the atmosphere is elegant and relaxing, the management needs to improve food preparation by adopting a mindset of striving for excellence instead of mediocrity to ensure customers have a consistently good dining experience.

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    Café Flora

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    Café Flora is a Filipino-themed all-you-can-eat buffet located in Marikina Hotel that attracts many tourists due to its affordable prices. However, the food quality is inconsistent and often not fresh, with appetizers, soups, and main dishes sometimes being cold or overcooked. While the atmosphere is elegant and relaxing, the management needs to improve food preparation by adopting a mindset of striving for excellence instead of mediocrity to ensure customers have a consistently good dining experience.

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    Café Flora: Not so “Flowery” After All

    By Camille Anjela Curitana

    Café Flora is a Filipino-themed all-you-can-


    eat buffet located at the second floor of the
    Marikina Hotel. It is one of the most sought-after
    attractions of the said hotel as diners from all over
    the Philippines visit it whenever they happen to be
    in Marikina. For all it is worth, it seems to be doing
    a great job of attracting tourists, which I think, was
    the very reason why the Marikina city government
    established the said restaurant in the first place.

    The problem, however, is that whatever


    positive impressions diners may initially have about
    Café Flora might pop like an overblown bubble and discourage them from visiting the restaurant the
    second time around. While the price of eating buffet style is highly affordable and the ambiance is
    elegant, the food that they serve, which is the primary reason why people go there, are, at times, not
    in their best condition.

    Upon entering the gates of the hotel, one can see right away the tarpaulin sign announcing
    the price of the buffet, which is 150.00 pesos exclusive of drinks. Anyone who wishes to try out their
    unlimited blue lemonade or fruit juices should add a measly 50.00 pesos. This is not too bad given
    that most all-you-can-eat buffets in Metro Manila would have a dining price ranging from 500.00 to
    almost 1000.00 pesos. Indeed, this seems like a good deal for both the tummy and the pocket, and
    this is also what lures many visitors into its elegant dining hall.

    The dining area is also one worthy of admiration. Its suiting scent, green curtains with elegant
    embroidery, and neatly arranged dining tables all contribute to the relaxing ambiance of the place.
    Indeed, one can feel stress going away upon being immersed in this comfortable atmosphere.

    Such a pleasure, however, may be short-lived. After just one round at the buffet table, one will
    get a sense that the dishes have been there for quite some time. First and foremost, the appetizers
    are not quite as appetizing; they are mostly comprised of vegetables which are supposedly fresh. But
    after a closer inspection, one will find out that a lot of them are already worn out. Even the soups are
    disappointing; they are usually served cold. Moreover, the main courses especially the highly
    esteemed Filipino dishes such as sinigang, bopis, and humba are also in great need of reheating. For
    this reason, they are also very hard to eat since cold meat does not only become bland to the taste
    but also quite difficult to chew. The dessert, on the other hand, is nothing more than different
    colored gulaman cubes which all taste the same way.

    If there is anything that the management of Café Flora should work on, it is food preparation.
    To keep customers pouring in, the management should exert extra effort to prepare dishes that are
    served at their best. They should put aside the “pwede na ‘yan (this will do) mentality,” which often
    breeds mediocrity, and instead adopt a “pwedeng-pwede (this is great) mindset” which values being
    the best in every possible way so that their buffet will always be sumptuous.

    All in all, I am going to give Café Flora three out of five stars. If you are looking for a cozy
    place to relax, then Café Flora will do the job. But if you’re after the great food, do not expect too
    much from this restaurant.

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