Mama Nita’s Binalot

Very good food. good service.i would recommed it to anyone. love the boneless bangus! yum yum yum

It’s a rare feat to get me to go for Filipino food in a restaurant, especially when you really love your mom’s and aunt’s home cooking, but when you get to eat with your hands right off banana leaves, you really raise the fun factor.
This was family dinner for us one Sunday after seeing that a few of our relatives have visited this establishment and really liked it. We ordered we ordered the feast for 10. It came with sinigang (tamarind based soup broth) as the starter. As the set up the table with the banana leaves on the table, amounts of rice was placed down the middle of the table. It was served with BBQ chicken, fried eggplant, beefsteak with onions, fried tilapia, fried eggplant, lechon kawali (fried roasted pork), and sisig (chopped meat dressed with vinegar). I do have to say that as they ran out of two of the items for our meal, the lechon and sisig were the substitutions. We also added fried bangus (milkfish) to the meal. If I wasn’t so excited and hungry at the same time, I would have snapped a photo before we dug in. The food was delicious and you could tell by how little we were actually talking. I probably over ate but when it’s good, it’s hard to stop! Bring your family and friends and try a taste of the Philippines!

I’m from Toronto who’s visiting Calgary. I love eating out and tried a few restaurants here in Calgary since we arrived here and I can honestly say that it’s shocking how expensive Filipino restaurants here.
As usual I love checking reviews in Unilocal before trying them and last Sunday I went with my partner and her sister for lunch at Mama Nita’s Binalot. The place is small but well lit. Since we’re only 3 people we just ordered the single menu and not the package they have good for 6 – 10 people.
I ordered Sisig with rice, hard boil egg and tomato, my partner ordered Daing with rice, hard boil and slice of tomato and her sister ordered sinigang with rice, hard boil and slice tomato. Before the our orders came, the waitress served us with sinigang soup. The soup was so tasty, perfect hot temperature but too salty.
The price was so reasonable a lot better and affordable than any other restaurants we’ve dine. The taste of the food was delicious and my Sisig was not oily like other restaurants serve. The customer service was also great. The reason why I didn’t give 5 star is because of the salty sinigang soup.
Also what I’ve noticed was they don’t have vegetables on the menu, so for those people whose vegetarian this place is not for you. Oops I forgot to mention that the owner (I think) when I raise the issue about no vegetables, he mentioned that you can create your own menu meaning you can call them ahead of time if you want vegetables, like Pinakbet, Chopseuy etc.
So for sure I will definitely recommend this restaurant and will definitely go back.

Okay hopefully my request to fix the name of this restaurant goes through… and maybe someday someone will explain what a Binalot is… in the meantime I plan to go back for sure!
We decided to do a massive group lunch for work and we went without knowing what we were getting into… I think there was approximately 25 – 26 of us…
We were seated at a super long table covered in banana leaves and the staff were in the middle of putting soup down at each place setting. As we drank up the light but flavourful broth soup they dropped scoops of rice in a line down the middle and it just got crazier from there.
There were slices of pork, beef, bbq chicken, hard boiled eggs, tomato wedges, roasted eggplant, whole tilapia, chunks of another kind of fish I never got the name of, and glass noodles.
The dipping sauce bowls we each got turned out to be adobo sauce which is like an acidic soysauce, delicious with the handfuls of stuff.
The chicken was amazing and i could have eaten a whole one, the noodles were tasty, and everything was just outright delicious (except the whole eggs which I didn’t try — I don’t really like eggs outside of certain preparations usually done by myself or mom).
The fun part about all this was you picked up with one hand (your ‘clean hand’) and you ate with the other… it was messy, fun, and an amazing experience. The flavours were fantastic, though the whole tilapia was interesting… after a while it tasted the way an aquarium smells but it was delicious anyway — just something to get used to. Isn’t that the best part of food? Experimenting with things you’d never think you’d enjoy eating and finding out you love it?
I can’t wait to go back!