Pondahan Restaurant - Filipino restaurant in West Covina - 535 S California Ave, USA

The food is good, and tastes homemade with good ingredients. The only downside is the portions are small, and it's a little pricey. Apart from that it's very nice restaurant, good service, and perfect setting for a date or when eating with a large family/friends.

Loved this place. Went with my Filipino friend.. She claimed the place is very authentic. So it must be. Overall, very good.

Good delicious food, friendly staff very clean cozy and romantic, only problem seems to be hidden but a must to visit restaurant. AAA+

The beefsteak is probably the best I've ever had it's a must try

It’s Saturday night and we are looking to a good dinner at my wife’s native food. Unexpectedly the food were not up to par with our usual Filipino taste. Added to this the chicken soup was not fresh at all! We should have stuck to the today’s menu. Needless to say we were disappointed with the taste of the food. Perhaps it is just a different version of what we were used to. The service was ok. But to spend fifty for two and leaving the place unsatisfied is not what we came here for.

What I like about this place is that portion sizes are very generous. We got served by a younger man who was a little gruff, to be honest. Also, when he gave us the check, he put the receipts on top of the credit card so it was hidden. The lady who ran the restaurant was very nice, she ran out after us because I forgot my credit card!

Disappointing! We've been visiting Pondahan Restaurant for several years now because of the "first impression" we had the first time we visited. The quality of service and of course, the food was very good. Every time we pass by LA, it's a must stop at this restaurant. This time though it's different. It felt like a whole new staff and chef took over the place. The quality of food wasn't the same and the portion was less. My wife ordered her usual favorite Kare-Kare, but when the dish came, the quality was subpar. The quality of meat and taste was far below our usual expectations. It was disappointing. Same with the rest of our orders. Now the service. Besides our table, there was only one other group sitting nearby us. The server welcomed us and gave everyone water then he said he'll be back for our orders, That was the last time we saw him. He (short stature with long hair) was gone for at least 20 min until we asked the other server that we were ready to order. When our server came back, there was no apologies as to why he was gone and even seemed irritated when he took our orders. It was disappointing to get that kind of service after 5 hours of long driving. As for the price; we felt it was too much for the quality and portions of each dish. I understand that gratuity can be added when there are more than 6 people in the table, but because of the high price of each order, along with automatic 20 percent gratuity, we felt like we were robbed. Because of this experience, our expectations for this restaurant is now very low. It is time to check out other restaurants and maybe we'll find the same good place we felt the first time we visited Pondahan Restaurant. Visited 10/06/19 between 4:30 to 6:30pm.

Definitely a family restaurant. Proportions are to share and are huge. Most platters are enough to feed 3-4 people, but you can get a family platter too. I go here with my family often and we always have a good time. If you enjoy Filipino food, this is the place for you.