San Antonio, Makati City: Meet The Meats At Charaptor

Breaking News! A dinosaur was spotted dining in a buffet restaurant around Makati City this morning, it was allegedly one of the dinos on the upcoming 'Jurassic World 2', later on bystanders confirmed it was just a mirage when it was not moving and only an image on the tarpaulin. Blah! Don't worry, this false alarm never happened, it was just made by my super creative mind. Anyhow, last week when I had spare time to browse my facebook, there were pictures that I should have featured on my blog like a year ago. But since I had not started my blog that year, it's now overdue, so I don't wanna procrastinate this again. Help me go back to our 'eat and grill' experience with my friends last 2014, at the carnivore-friendly buffet resto 'Charaptor'.

Sunday morning after our shift when we went here, even though I'm living near Makati we rode a cab going here from edsa-pioneer, located exactly at 9755 Kamagong St. Corner Sampaloc St., Bgy. San Antonio,

Makati City, the place was still new to me and it was an unexpected 'eat-out'. 

From a word of mouth to reality. We don't usually go out but that time we felt really hungry and wanted to try an after-office-food-crawl. Oh! That was the Dino on the tarpaulin! 

Rawrrrr Welcome to Charaptor!

We arrived there roughly 10 in the morning to take advantage on a less 100pesos price, good thing even if we didn't reserve we were able to find perfect table with very clean charcoal grill. There were already people inside and we thought it was kinda a lot, so we decided to just enjoy the outside area. Everything was like new since they just opened early that year 2014. 

This unique bbq all-you-can-eat resto became talk of the town not only with their mouthwatering dishes but they have an affordable price, like almost 50% lesser than the usual buffet restaurant price(Php800-Php1,200) in Manila.

Which one will you grill first? Tell you what I had 4 plates for all of these, mostly different kind of sausages. I am not really super meat lover but I don't know why, my mindset everytime I go in a buffet is 'eyes must be bigger than my stomach', I guess not only to taste all the foods that are on the tables but to maximize what I paid. But usually the result is either your stomach will suffer or the excess will be wasted and hit directly the trash can.

Happy Grilling! Like the advice of majority of the resto-goers, never go here without even eating a piece of bread, because if none, you will end up eating 2 or 3 cups of mashed potatoes, well like what happened to me, though it was really tasted good, I felt full right away. So if you can't wait, I highly suggest to just drink a lot of water or enjoy the convo with your friends whilst grilling.

Look at the sausages, oh my! I was melting that time, I don't know perhaps that could be because of the heat from the grill. There are also other marinated cuts of chicken, pork, fresh seafood like fish, squid, shrimp, vegetables, hotdogs, and street food such as 'isaw' and squid balls you will surely love.

There were numerous sauces you can choose from teriyaki, toyomansi, special bbq, steak and a lot more. Colors were from black, dark orange to bloody red.

More meats to grill.

Do you know what's the happiest in grilling? It could be the bonding moment whilst you're grilling and the smoke slowly smothering you and your friends amid a convo 'anything under a smoke exhaust ventilator', everyone is laughing hard while waiting for the foods to cook.

When your friend felt full yet there were still a lot of food on the table.

Groupie after, me with happy and rex. Yes, happy was smiling because she did something goofy, oopps! No, all of us. 

It was a nice grill-all-you can experience, despite of the long wait for us to cook all of the dishes we had on our plates. Honestly, mashed potatoes got us bloated and we had leftovers, the fright of paying additional led us to burning them but there were people next on our table who had left with excess foods on their table without being charged for it, so we decided to just leave it that way. I really enjoyed it and you know what? The craze of this resto pushed them to put another branch in Mall of Asia, Pasay City(SM By The Bay). Congratulations! It's a hit for a span of just 2 years, surely everyone especially those who are meat lovers or true blue food porns will do their 'meet and greet' here. You can also check their site www.charaptor.com for more details.