About Muelle Deli and Restaurant
Muelle Deli and Restaurant is the Lapuz-riverside fine-dining-with-flair destination — the Eastern-end Esplanade restaurant on Jose Rizal Street in the working-port Lapuz district that has built the city's celebration-dinner-with-live-music reputation through the unique-fine-dining-format combination of the riverside-warm-atmosphere, the expertly-prepared-dishes, the exceptional-service standard, and the jazz-cocktails-and-live-music programme. The restaurant occupies a converted-warehouse-style two-story building, with the ground-floor deli-and-cocktail-bar (running the all-day cocktail-and-deli-snack service) and the upstairs-dining-room (running the dinner-starters and main-course service).
The menu is the Continental-fine-dining-with-flair canon. The signatures are the seared-Atlantic-salmon with citrus-butter-and-asparagus, the slow-cooked-osso-buco with saffron-risotto, the Iloilo-grouper-meunière (the local-Visayan-coastal grouper with the French-meunière brown-butter-lemon-caper preparation), the cured-meat-and-cheese deli-platter (running the Iloilo-bagnet-and-longganisa with the imported European-cheeses), and the jazz-cocktail spread (running the Negroni, the old-fashioned, the espresso-martini, and the Muelle-original riverside-Iloilo-rum-cocktails). A multi-course Continental dinner-with-cocktails for two runs PHP 2,200-3,800 ($40-68).
The room is the Lapuz-riverside-warehouse-jazz set-piece. The converted-warehouse-style architecture (the brick-and-exposed-beam interior), the riverside-deck patio facing the Iloilo-River-mouth, the live-jazz-music-programme (running Friday-Saturday evenings with the resident jazz-trio), and the dim-warm-cocktail-bar atmosphere make Muelle the proper-celebration-dinner-with-live-music answer in Iloilo. Capacity is around 100 across the ground-floor deli-bar and the upstairs dining room.
Reservations matter for the Friday-Saturday live-jazz-music-evenings and the celebration-dinner peaks; three-to-five days ahead is enough. The restaurant accepts cards, the staff speak strong English, and the Lapuz district is the working-port end of the four-kilometre Esplanade-boardwalk.
Best Occasion Fit
For birthdays — the converted-warehouse-jazz-cocktails-fine-dining format and the live-jazz-Friday-Saturday programme make Muelle the proper-Iloilo-celebration-dinner answer; the kitchen will plate a celebration cake. As a first date the riverside-jazz-cocktails atmosphere reads as the unique Iloilo-night-out effort. For team dinners the upstairs-dining-room handles groups of ten-to-twenty.
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