Sampaguita Village Family Restaurant - Toronto, Ontario

Decided to eat filipino food and it is actually hard to find really good ones. We were 2 adults looking for a dine in experience for dinner. The restaurant itself is small and a bit dated, but clean. The place was full of people on a Friday night at 730. The ... wait wasn't long though, about 10 minutes and had a table ready. The host and server was quite friendly and polite. We got served quickly and had free salted peanuts prior to ordering. They do ask people of they arr allergic to peanuts too. Menu is simple and straightforward. We ordered thte mixed vegetables, large Yang chow fried rice, Grilled bbq pork bell or inihaw na baboy, and crispy squid with lechon kwali and white rice was included with this. The dishes were fairly decent sized. The food was delicious, homemade and a lot of flavour. Squid was crispy and not chewy, the pork belly was thinly sliced and marinated well, lechon kwali was good, the fried rice had large shrimps, and good array of mixed vegetables. It also came with dipping sauce for the lechon and soy sauce with chili in it. The craving for filipino food was definitely satisfied. I would recommend coming here and I want to come back to try other dishes as well. Read more

First time having Filipino food had a great experience here. The waiter recommended the lechon, inihaw babov, and sampaguita. Everything was delicious. Would definitely come back to try the other dishes!

We were randomly driving around to look for a place to eat and stumbled upon this restaurant. Food was absolutely delicious and felt like home. Service was outstanding as well. Would definitely recommend!

I wish the place could have been a lot more. The place lacks some theming and branding. There is not much embelishment in the counters or walls, and you pick food items from a cheaply prepared laminated menu. It could use a little more sprucing up to add a little ... more touch of Filipiniana. As it is right now, it is just a place you go to eat and nothing more. I am hoping for a place in Little Manila where people actually make it a destination where they actually properly dine and take in the Filipino culture. This is in stark contrast to the many comparable Thai, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Ethiopian restaurants where you could really feel the cultural immersion in the way the place is decorated. For food, the house combos were nice. It is very filling and great value money-wise. However, they could have done better to make it more true to the authentic Filipino cuisine. Grilled chicken and pork chop are not signature Filipino dishes. I was also surprised to find Korean beef included as one of the menu items. The service we received was also underwhelming. The servers are not easily identifiable being in their own civilian attire. The new, young lady server that handed over our bill was also severely lacking in training. She was ignorant about a little history of the restaurant and got the computation for our bill all messed up. I wanted to love this place. However, as it is right now, I would not feel proud of bringing my non-Filipino friends here. It does not give a good impression of Filipino hospitality, culture, and tradition. Read more

A little family restaurant. The staff were very nice and friendly. Gave us mango drinks to enjoy with our meal. We decided on the dinner for 2. There was enough food for 3 people. Grilled pork chops and chicken were quite good. The pancit sampaguita was tasty. The ... sauce was good with it. The sinigang vegetable was really good. Read more