brasserie sagana

bistrosaganais a really good restaurant.

sagana french bistro, formerlysaganaepicerie and bistro, is an oasis of tranquility in the middle of the busy bonifacio global city. who would’ve thought that net one building has a portal to classy and luxurious fine dining restaurant on its ground floor. a champion of farm-to family ideology for local produce, this restaurant extends their support for our local farmers while producing the best of french cuisine has to offer.

a shortage of ingredients isn’t possible for sagana, as they still have a lot of bandwidth to even sell wines and plenty of local produce for customers to have their hand on what our local farmers have been giving their life and dedication. we even spotted hineleban’s adlai, our favorite rice substitute!

very neat and with a little hint of garden-inspired interior make up the whole restaurant, with some few leaves draping from the ceiling.

sagana french bistro prides itself a french restaurant that promotes and uses the best quality, locally sourced produce while remaining true to the traditions and authenticity of french cooking.

the food and service insaganawas satisfactory. i got the beef brisket with roasted vegetables for the siding. it was cooked to my liking / preference. my partner got a pate platter which was also good. while my other friends got the steak. their steak was also good, its premium quality and cooked to perfection based on their request which was medium well. overall, good experience and will definitely comeback and refer this to my friends. also, they have zomato gold 1+1 food which makes it very worth it.

i love everything aboutsaganafrench bistro. the service is fast and attentive. the food is... delicious. certainly the best and most typical french brasserie food in manila. my favorite are the foie gras, onglet (beef hanging tender) and oysters (when available...).

anything organic interests me so off we went tosaganafor today’s late lunch. cozy and well-appointed, the white, lined tablecloths were perfecr with the red carnations on little glass vases.

we were served warm bread after our orders were taken and even though i usually ignore breads i could not resist this warm, crusty outside and soft inside slice. our orders of prawn bisque, goat cheese salad, flank steak, and pork tenderloin were all excellent. the ratatouille that went with the meats were charred and greatly appealed to all of us.

the only reasons i give it 4 stars are that the restroom ceiling had a leak and the playlist was confusing (sometimes french sometimes columbian/spanish/i don’t know what). these can be corrected overnight so no big deal. come here. i would come back here again and again and again.

my family has long been a fan of marc aubry from his champetre days to his current baby sagana. i have been tosaganamore than a few times since it opened and i was a happy diner each time. chef marc through his culinary creations introduced me to french-inspired cooking that is very flavorful yet never pretentious. i particularly like the philosophy behindsagana— locally sourced, farm to table produce transformed into uncomplicated but highly flovorful french-inspired fare. i particularly love the apahap (local sea bass) which is grilled and served with creamy ratatouille. rich but not overly so. the angus ribeye steak with roquefort cheese sauce will always be a favorite. i love steaks and i am used to having it with the usual sauces — red wine or mushroom or peppercorn or bearnaise. or maybe even with just the basic pepper and rock salt. and then i come across roquefort cheese sauce in sagana. lovely. and then there is chef marc’s vegetable gratin. i used to ask for cauliflower gratin in champetre to go with pretty much every thing i ordered. it was that good. in the menu now is eggplant gratin. i suppose no one does gratin better than the french. another solid favorite are two soups — prawn bisque and french onion soup. i have brought many foreign colleagues from the regional bank that i used to work for and that french onion soup always made an impression. the lamb chops are a favorite as well. and if you are in the mood for a bit more culinary pampering then you might want to try the foie gras and pate sampler. oh, one more thing. you need not break the bank when you dine in sagana. you get real value for what you pay.

excellent experience atsagana(renovated, rebranded and relaunched champêtre)!

we ordered the l’onglet, which was a favorite. very tender and generous piece of meat served with a side salad and fries. we also ordered the algerian couscous and i especially loved the sausage and the lamb chops that came with it. everything was on point, even our request to have our meats prepared medium rare.

we ordered the le nancy for a sweet ending. great flourless chocolate dessert. the chocolate ganache tasted homemade. overall, excellent experience!

had my first experience insaganaepicerie and bistro on the evening of 1 february 2018 and i love the food, drink, service, and ambiance.  i highly recommend their french onion soup before taking the main course.  definitely i will go back for more.

sagana is a real gem located in bgc. unlike most restaurants, they won't play to adjust their market. they are driven by a strong concept, which is to bring their guests the freshest local products, grown in an eco-friendly environment and respecting the soil where they've been grown, to become real french dishes, cooked with french tehniques by chef marc aubry.

one of the best example of product found insaganathat show how rich and interesting is filipino agriculture would be the coffee.
their beans are coming from small farms located in remote islands. a world-class coffee, brought to you by passionate people, that help small communities to sustain their activity in your own country. it's the kind of thing that really touch me and show a very positive philosophy of a restaurant.

i can also talk about the ambiance. you feel a lot of serenity when you enter this place with a mix of wood and greens with adjusted lightnings and very comfortable seats.

i tried one of their flagship dish, the onglet.
a wonderful piece of beef, flavourful and perfectly cooked that come with a salad and french fries.
simple but totally efficient.

this place won't be your typical hip place, shining from outside with a menu full of people pleaser dishes. once you enter this restaurant, you enter a place where you will live a real food experience, completely different from anything you can try in metro manila.

thank yousaganafor this wonderful foodie experience.

formerly champetre, which was my personal best-and-favorite french restaurant, has closed and now emerged into a french-filipino fusion cuisine "sagana".  basically, it uses filipino ingredients prepared with the finest french cuisine.  i am unable to provide a thorough review on this restaurant since i left bgc when this restaurant opened in second half of 2017.

ambiance - neat & clean; a nice place for peace and quiet meal with friends and with yourself.  :)  as you enter the restaurant, the organic foods stand out upon the door.

service - staffs are attentive and friendly, who are mostly staffs from the old champetre.

food - there's no doubt that the quality of the food does not disappoint one customer, but it also means that the price is high.  i have noticed thatsaganahas shown great importance on the presentation of the food on top of the quality taste.  i have tried the grilled apahap (local bass) w/ grilled vegetables, and honestly, the fish is soft and well-cooked.  sadly, i haven't tried their other dishes though.

still, i personally feel that champetre is better than sagana, because i'm a french-cuisine fan.

for further reference/review, you may search their restaurant at "our awesome planet".  

april 2-7, 2018:saganacommemorated the "paul bocuse" event where they served dishes prepared by him.  dishes were superb, especially the signature dish "vge soup".  wine selections were good, and made me realized how good wines are!  

worth a visit again?  yes, certainly!