Zarlitos Family Restaurant in National City

Delicious Filipino food open late! This place is the spot for traditional Filipino comfort food. They have the usual choices but the quality and flavor is awesome. We normally order crispy lechon and kare kare here but there are so many other good options on the menu as well. We recommend getting whatever dish you want as the combination plate so it comes with fried rice, pancit noodles and lumpia. Would give it 5 stars but the waiting time for the food is kinda on the slower side. Otherwise, great food and friendly service!

Authentic Filipino food. I used to live in Cali and the Filipino food I remember eating would blast with flavor. I was expecting my taste buds to sizzle! Was flatly disappointed. Idk, maybe my memory played tricks on me or my palate changed. Probably the latter.Anyhow,,,Squid rings. They were fried and shriveled up, kinda tasted like fried chicken skin...now I like fried chicken skin, so dont get me wrong...they tasted great but was not what I expected. Expected crispy tender rings.Chicken adobo. My sister makes it better!Garlic fried rice. Now THAT was delicious! Never had it and loved loved loved it!! Id come here just for the rice.Pancit. Well, again disappointed as the flavor fell flat for me.One thing that brighten up the night was the live karaoke. If you feel like you want to let go and dont care about embarrassing yourself, dont worry, everyone else will be embarrassed for you. But youll have loads of fun !! 😆😆😆

Ordered to-go (beef fried rice) $15 food and it took way too long. Didn’t even look that busy.. but finally got my food and they didn’t even give me utensils. Luckily I had my camping spoon, so always come prepared folks. It smelled good but when i ate some, it didn’t really taste good at all. Maybe its better to dine in… portion was good. I will give them that..

I was CRAVING Filipino food, but the family and friends always wants to eat somewhere else...yay!!! My wish came true. I love it when I dont have to pay the bill, too!! U want amazing authentic food? The meat was made so deliciously in my book. Beef was tender and flavorful! The vegetables, yeah...so good. The pork (lichon) had such delicious, crunchy skin. Mmmmmm. The pancit and lumpia, yes this is how you make it!!! OMG the turon (fried banana in lumpia wrapper) was incredibly fresh!I wish my family were here to enjoy it. We love karaoke 🎤 😍 music 🎶 It was such fun! Theres lots of room! IM GONNA EAT HERE AGAIN AND AGAIN!!!

Food is great. Fresh, delicious and taste very good. I’ve ordered food for our company meeting. They delivered right on time, very nice and clean packing. They also gave us extra Lumpia which was one of the best Lumpia I ever had. I highly recommend to try.

It has the best Longanisa I’ve ever tried. It’s my favorite and my daughters favorite for meal. As well as the Calamari, it is the best! The environment and staff are so welcoming and make me feel at home.

Zarlitos have always been one of my favorite restaurants. Once ownership changed the restaurant will never be the same. The mayonnaise in the sisig ruined it. The sisig fries is not the same as it used to be. I’ve seen the female owner be cruel to the employees. Just the way she treats her employees I will never eat there again.

Filipino dishes are not that good. We ordered sisig and papaitan but they’re bad. Sisig had a lot of onions and it was dry. The papaitan was cooked with chuncky meats which is bad for elderly’s teeth. Water was full of ice and they don’t check their customer’s table on what the customer need. You have to call them or go to front desk.

This will be my last day coming to Zarlitos. The cook always run out a vegetable that belongs to the ingredients. Today what I ordered was a waste of money and didn’t even taste good. I have complain several times but it seems like nothing is getting solved.

It’s been at least 12 years since I’ve been here.It’s all coming back to me now.There were nights when the wind was so coldThat my tummy growled and if I just listened to itI’ll jump outside the window.There were days when the sun was so cruelThat all my hunger turned to dustAnd I just knew I had to come here and order.I finished eating chickaron bulaklak in the instant that it came.And I cant remember where or when or howAnd I consumed every single Goto and Mami with Zarlitos mix.But when I eatthe lumpia like thisAnd I eat the dasilog like thatI just have to admitThat its all coming back to meWhen I eat the goto like thisAnd I eat the mami like thatIts so hard to believe but its all coming back to me(Its all coming back, its all coming back to me now)