Barong Restaurant

I love trying new places in my hometown. This was a recommendation from our friends who referred us to Chef K (which is one of our favorites in Temecula). We got the steak skewers and Chicken skewers. We tried the mango, green pepper and barong sauces - hands down the barong is the best! If you can’t decide go with barong. The presentation of the food was very unique and trendy - loved it! The salad and fried rice sides were also a winner as were the fries! The biggest complaint to this place is that they do not have ice and they do not run their AC! It was a balmy 83 degrees which was not pleasant. Had to use a menu as a fan. Our service was five star service - this kid was very talented and great with customer service skills (his name is Noah and he looks like Baby Driver) - excellent service! Overall food very good and I would recommend this place. Hope it sticks around - lots of restaurant turnover in this location.

The restaurant is easy to spot from the road. We are from Chicago visiting friend in Temecula.The atmosphere there so friendly greeting us with smiles from the cashier, waitress and the lady behind the cashier all nice. We love it. The FOOD is delicious... order the skewers chicken, beef, pork and fish and they come with side dish. Awesome. Definitely will be back.

Where to start? Air Conditioning off in the restaurant so we sat outside on patio with dead plants (could be so nice with a few pots of flowers or plants that were alive). 20 minute wait for water and menus. Had to ask for ice in the water. Then another 15 for wine and finally food arrived. Skewers tasty, mac and cheese dry, house salad warm (perhaps supposed to be?). Only 2 servers on (guess several recently quit?). Gave them 1 extra star as they comped the wine for the wait and gave us a cookie. Good concept just not managed well.