For
years now, I’d been to Tandag City as an extension of my home. This city is the
nearest city to my place and about 30 kilometers from San Miguel, Surigao del
Sur. This is not the usual city that people are used to as it has no grand and enormous
malls, food chains, classy restaurant so forth and so forth.
There
are only few establishments that really stood out in this place. There is the T
& T for your groceries and hardware materials, Shacene Hotel and Restaurant
for your accommodation, Jakah’s, Gold Bar and my favorite Cortesanon Grill and
Restaurant for your guts satisfaction.
The
Cortesanon was started by Dodong Abala who migrated to Tandag City from the
town of Cortes in 1990 . He put up his turo turo business along the shore of
Barangay Dagucdoc which gives its
patrons a good view of the beautiful landscape of the mouth of Tandag River.
During
peak hours (12 noon) this place is a favorite hangout among the government
officials, teachers, policemen, businessmen and even politicians. They savor on
the cheap yet delicious food displayed on the stand.
In
my years of stay here, I never get tired of eating in this simple probincia
type of restaurant. I just feel at home whenever I come and have my lunch or
dinner in this place. I even take our visitors and my boss to this place and
they can only say good things about the food.
Cortesanon
offers different type of dishes ranging from pork, vegetables and my favorite
sea foods. I rarely see poultry dishes. My favorite dishes from this
restaurant are the sautéed shrimps, ginataang langka, ensaladang talong,
bulalo, sugba fish and their ever famous kinilaw na malasugi.
They may look too similar with other foods in other places but there is some kind of different touch by a true cortesanon that made their food unique to the taste of their regular patrons. The prices range
from Php30-50 pesos only.
Getting there
Cortesanon is a household name in Tandag City and almost
everybody knows the place. Just take a tricycle and tell the driver to take you
to Dagucdoc Cortesanon. The place is somehow conspicuous from where it is located.
The resto sits beside the city’s gymnasium.
Cortesanon
Queson
Street, Purok Draga
Brgy.Dagucdoc,
Tandag City
sarap namn nung hipon:)
ReplyDeletemas masarap ung kinilaw nila.naubos ko muna bago ko maisipang kunan ng picture .... hihihi
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