We’ve tried Pizzeria Saletta Tagaytay before, and we had a better-than-okay experience. So… to check if that was a fluke, baka tsamba lang, we returned to this off-the-main road pizza place in Tagaytay.
So, kumusta naman ang experience namin?
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Una, this place is – as stated in their name – in Tagaytay. So for those who do not dwell in Tagaytay or nearby Batangas and Cavite areas, this isn’t exactly near. Meaning, you should be willing to allocate more time and more money to visit this place.
Ikalawa, the actual resto will remind you of homes turned into eateries… like those you’d find in residential places in Bangkok (though this one offers Italian food, obviously). With an open-air setting, don’t expect fine dining level set-up.
Ikatlo, the staff’s quite good – e.g. we had an issue with parking, no thanks to the resto’s neighbor, and the care given while dealing with the issue was good. Now and then, you’d see the young owners here, too, engaging with customers. This is like a communal kainan.
Ika-apat, the food’s not bad… generally speaking.
With pizza, one of the best decisions this resto made was to offer Pizza Four Flavor (₱650), so you can try more for cheaper (usual pizzas cost from ₱300 to over ₱600). So we’ve tasted Hawaiian, Pizza Salsiccia, Quattro Formaggi, and Pizza Peperoni… all in one go. And we can say that:
- You can tell the pizzas were freshly made; served straight out of the oven, mainit-init pa, so tugma when eating in the cool temp of Tagaytay.
- Di tinipid sa sahog, so you actually get enough ingredients… not just bread.
- Hindi mamantika, so if you’re used to eating oily or greasy pizza, the version here isn’t that.
- The bread of the pizza we got had burnt parts (like: itim level burns); we just scraped them and they did not, overall, affect the taste naman, but we’re mentioning all the same.
We also ordered:
- Cotoletta alla Pizzaiola with Pasta Meatballs (₱260), basically chicken with pasta with meatballs. With this one, we’re sort of not impressed (sorry). True, the meatballs were better-than-okay. But the sauce was quite sweet; parang tinugma lang sa panlasang Pinoy.
- Cotoletta alla Pizzaiola with Pesto (₱220), basically chicken with pesto spaghetti. The chicken wasn’t bad… but it’s not something you’d remember. With the pasta naman, it was too creamy for us; it needed more pesto taste than cream (sorry).
While I won’t necessarily say that you should go out of your way to dayo this place, this place is a better-than-okay pizzeria if you’re in Tagaytay. Particularly if you’re looking for a homey, not necessarily classy venue.
Drop by… or join us as we look for more lafang venues.
Pizzeria Saletta Tagaytay is located at 1575 Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo, Maitim II East, Tagaytay City.
