Filipino bakeshop offering bread, cakes & other baked goods, along with classic dishes.
Hours
| Friday | 8:30 AM–8 PM |
| Saturday | 8:30 AM–8 PM |
| Sunday | 8:30 AM–8 PM |
| Monday | 8:30 AM–8 PM |
| Tuesday | 8:30 AM–8 PM |
| Wednesday | 8:30 AM–8 PM |
| Thursday | 8:30 AM–8 PM |
Address and Contact Information
Address: 1420 E Plaza Blvd d7, National City, CA 91950
Phone: (619) 477-7071
Website: https://goldilocks-nationalcity.com/?utm_source=google
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Reviews
We decided to have our brunch after in laws morning appointment. Got lucky for a parking knowing it’s hard to get one on a weekend close to the restaurant. Attentive staff from start to finish. It was 930AM but decided not to order breakfast items instead ordered our regular UBER orders.
Ordered the following:
Crispy Pata – it’s a must for us! Crispy skin and juicy pata meat. Ordered Crispy Pata here five times last year through UBER since we just love how juicy and crispy it is.
Pansit Canton – well seasoned and great amount of toppings i.e veggies and meat. Noodles not overcooked.
Fresh Lumpia – not pictured. Fresh veggies wrapped in crepe with sweet savory peanut sauce completes the dish.
Highly recommend if you’re craving for some Filipino dishes.
The entrance brings you to the bakery section and the restaurant seating is to the left, but the layout makes it confusing as to where you go to actually get seated. It’s hard to tell which employees are servers and which work in the bakery and they’re bouncing all over but no one really greets and seats when they see you enter and stand there. When we were finally brought into the seating area, we were quite surprised that there were so many tables as you can’t see the whole section from the entrance. It feels cramped with so many tables so close together and the decor is reminiscent of dated diner/cafeteria. The commotion of all the other tables and servers make it a challenge to have a relaxing meal.
The service is good, when you finally get seated and your food order is taken. The ladies that work there are very friendly and work quite hard as the restaurant does not staff enough to handle all the tables they seat. We can see how each server is stretched thin as they run back and forth nonstop to service all the tables, so bless their hearts! If I rated this review on service alone, I would have given 4 stars, but that is not the case.
The food. I’ve grown up enjoying Filipino food and especially married to a Filipino, I’ve learned to make some of my favorite dishes too. Well, we were craving Filipino food this day and didn’t want to cook, so we were ready to just enjoy. We ordered the Sizzling Pork Sisig, Pork Dinaguan, Lechon Kawali, Lechon Kare-Kare. Let me just say that the food was a major letdown. Sisig is my sole favorite Filipino dish, however, the Sisig here was more like a breakfast omelet filling. There was so much chopped veggies, I wasn’t sure if I was eating a vegetarian Sisig or what. I have never in my life had Sisig where almost half was made up of chopped veggies. The Lechon Kawali was extremely dry and over-fried. We had to hunt down a server to ask for a vinegar dipping sauce to help make it more palatable. The Prok Dinaguan was flat in flavor, not horrible but not exactly good. The Pork Kare-Kare was decent and in this case, the best of what we got.
Service from the servers would have gotten this review 4 stars, but the food resulted in the 2 stars. It was the first time I ate here and I honestly can’t say I would be returning, which is unfortunate because I really wanted to like this place.
We came back 2 days after to have our lunch and we ordered pancit and pork belly sisig and it was delicious as well, but the appetizer platter and dinuguan seemed to be pre-frozen and just was heated up in the oven, I can tell the Kare-kare was not cooked from scratch, the service is good overall.
Come the day of the celebration of life, Mel helped our food delivery people be sure they had everything in the order. The food was still hot when it arrived, and many guests remarked how delicious all the food and selections were; Great feedback from a primarily Filipino crowd!
I am 1000% happy with the food, the help, the services and the care that Mel and her team put into our house catering for my dad’s celebration of life and highly recommend Goldilock’s National City for any home parties you might have. Work with Mel, she’s the best!!! Thank you Mel and your team for helping to make this event even more special by providing delicious authentic Filipino dishes and desserts to help us to celebrate my Tatay’s beautiful and blessed life.
For snacks we got, cassava cake-always good not too sweet, Biko (sweetened sticky rice) is good. Hopias taste ok, needs more flavor to the filling. Pandesal is ok. Had better pandesal back home but I will settle to their pandesal since home is toooooo far. We also got peanuts with garlic and pan de leche (Sweet bread rolls)-will update this review once I tried them. Good service and will come back again if we’re in SD.
Ambience: Fast pace bakery on one side and casual dine in on other.
Service: Nice and welcoming service.
Food: We ordered a lot of the traditional dishes where most places serve the same but wanted to compare.
Overall: Came there for some bakery items but ended up dining in for real food. Good food but I’ve definitely had better elsewhere.