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La Cocina De Margarita is a food restaurant at Solot-solot, San Juan, Ilocos Sur. Since it

is located near the beach where you can swim and watch sunsets. Its location is much an advantage

for snacks because people would not anymore need to travel for like at least half an hour from

where they are spending their leisure within the town, especially when they are too hungry to do

that.

From the outside, for people who have a strong fondness on brightly lighted restaurants

with vibrantly colorful signage of the restaurant’s forename, Balkan could maybe just another

restaurant they would just pass by. It has its restaurant name set in shadowy colors along with its

big-white-font-ed “Balkan” signage right through their front. That’s their motif. Stated straightly

evident from the outside. The lightings, ambience, and setting inside are just cozy, classic standard

and comfy. The inside is warmly cool- that degree of coldness that you don’t shiver although you

are already there for like 2 hours. You are warmly greeted right from the doors. The dominant

colors and light effects inside is this dark orange-red-yellow amalgamation sort of thing which was

good because that makes the inside complement the dark western style of street outside, like the

inside is made as part of the street perhaps, and stand out from all the bright restaurants, cafes, and

coffee shops on the adjacent street with their own brightly colored theme.

The foods, on the other hand, are a top notch- from their appetizers, soups, burgers, rice

meals, and desserts. They are served with beauty that you would feel a bit of guilt for having to

destroy before eating your meal. The orders are served with perfect synchronization and smile.

Some of them are named the Yugoslavian way though. For an instance, you would have to ask

what their “supe” and “salate” are, which are only soup and salad, respectively, in ours. They also
have foods so hard to pronounce that you only point on the menu to choose them. They are

Yugoslavian foods. They are neither named English nor Tagalog. I've had moderately a few

different things on the menu, having shared a few entrees with friends at times and we always all

end up 10-star satisfied. Moreover, their Stuffed Pljeskavica, a ground beef steak stuffed with

mozzarella, is among the best steaks I am having. It has this tasty mozzarella cheese inside this

tenderly soft beef steak. The tastes and textures of the two are just complementary. It’s actually

my personal favorite there. You wouldn’t just usually have a creamy mozzarella cheese stuffed

inside a so tender and soft beef steak here in our country.

Fortunately, their price is relatively cheap actually. Their appetizers, soup, and salad range

from a hundred to P 300. Burgers, sandwiches, fries, and the same, range from P 200 to P 400.

Full rice meals range from P300 to P700, and drinks and desserts range from P70 to P200. In other

words, this is a blameless price for thrifty friends, economical family, and cost-effective lovers

wanting to dine something else aside from their own home cooked foods because Balkan

Yugoslavian Home Cooking serves relatively cheap home cooked meals.

Balkan Yugoslavian Home Cooking Restaurant satisfies my frustrated desire to go Europe

and have some tastes of what their foods taste like, or to any person with the same yearning. They

bring Yugoslavian and Serbian foods within our reach.