Oriental Mart Reviews

It is not every day you encounter home favourite Filipino food. I was fortunate to meet some at Pike Place. The ambiance was not what you’re looking for , but let me remind that this is Pike Place market where space is like a gold mine. They didn’t get my order right, but it was ok. Anyway I was not charged for the miss out. The chicken adobo with pancit noodles with rice was a definite hit .

Leila and family know how to please. They provided friendly and fun conversation while I was dining solo. Most importantly though, the food. Every single thing I tasted, which was everything, was delicious. Order the "trust me" plate... trust me! It was hard to find a nearby place that was different and this was it - just what I wanted. Leila, I will be back! Love, Danielle from Toronto ;)

This place is one of the hidden gems in the Emerald City. Located inside the historic Pike Place Market in downtown Seattle. Come and enjoy the taste of good Filipino food. The chicken & pork Adobo is mouth watering and the juices make the rice taste out of this world. The Pancit noodles and Lumpias are very tasty, as well. I would recommend this place to anyone who can appreciate tasty, exotic food. It is family owned and run since 1974 and they are very sweet people.

I've been wanting to visit since seeing it on Andrew Zimmern's show. It did not disappoint. I've had Filipino food in restaurants before that were more cafeteria tasting. This food was like my auntie's homemade dishes. We had chicken adobo, pancit, rice, and lumpia. In fact we had the last three lumpia of the day. Masarap! You need to sit at the counter, enjoy the banter between the sisters and customers, and read all of the signs. Funny and true. I will go back whenever I'm in Seattle. Thanks, ladies!

I had the chicken adobo and one of the Filipino mango drinks for less than $11. The chicken (two drumsticks) was so flavorful and fall off the bone tender. It came with steamed rice and some amazing noodles I don’t remember the name of that were mixed with vegetables and a delicious sauce. The drink was also delicious - and always fun to try something new. I thought the snarky signs were very entertaining, and everyone working there was actually very friendly.

We ran into this restaurant by accident. The owner was the chef. She had a good sense of humor. We had the salmon sour soup ("sinigang"). It came with steamed rice and "pansit", rice vermicelli with vegetables. The soup was very good. It had lots of fresh vegetables. The pansit was bland for my taste. This place was very popular and crowded at lunch. The prices were reasonable. The décor were different hand-written signs. Service was fast and friendly.

I read the other reviews and expected great tasting Filipino food in Seattle, but I have to say, I was really disappointed. First of all, the pansit was bland. The bangus was good but nothing special. I've had it better marinated at other restaurants. The prices were a little high too. The staff was very friendly though, but I wouldn't go back based on the food.

Great Filipino food. Extra large servings. Some of the best food and great value. Fast service and several choices

I was on a quest to find a great place for Filipino while in Seattle. While simple, the food is amazing and the folks working there make it a lot of fun because they bring a personality to the place not common in Filipino restaurants. Nothing "reserved about these ladies. They are fun and really seem to enjoy their customers. The mix of people eating there is a testimony of how much of an attraction this restaurant inside their market really is. I will be back!

There is a lot of hype about this Filapino restaurant, which is sort of buried across the street from Pike Place Market. It has counter seating only, and the food is cooked to order in a tiny kitchen. Everything is quite authentic cuisine. It is reasonably priced and relatively quick.

Been driving up to Seattle for years and yet didn't about this place. Thanks to Travel Channel, we were introduced to it. The food is what you might find in a Filipino home using the chef's own recipes to chicken adobo, salmon sinigang, and orange chicken wings. Sisters Lyla and Joy run the place, while Lola looks on. Very nice family. We thoroughly enjoyed eating in this hole in the wall restaurant.

Great across the street from Pike Place Market. This little counter diner served great simple almost street faire food. signs behind the ounter along with the style of our server made this a most memorial experience.

Authentic. It was just like I wandered into one of my Auntie's kitchens to have lunch with family. My food was still cooking (pancit, rice and fried chicken) so I was encourage to see the sights at Pike's Place and come back in 10 minutes. The dish was just right when I returned. And then they encouraged me to relax, take my time and enjoy my meal. I will return ASAP. I'm glad Andrew Zimmern recommended Oriental Mart. I was not disappointed!

I don’t get Filipino food too often, but it is one of my favorite Aisian-type cuisines. I really wanted lumpias as soon as I saw this place. Their lumpias are delicious and so was the dipping sauce.

We stop here every time we head to the market. Every dish and soup is of the chain. My wife always gets something salmon, I just ask them to load me up. I don't care, it's all good. Adobo, chicken wings, bimibab yum. If you're in the mood for home cooked Filipino, stop in and say hello. The family that runs the place is so nice. If you get snappy or are in a hurry, go elsewhere and they'll tell you that to, which I appreciate.

I recently had the pleasure of stumbling onto the Oriental Mart / Kitchenette in Seattle's Pike Place Market. At first I was enticed by the smell and presentation of their Filipino food and then I sat down to a wonderful culinary experience courtesy of Leila, the Mart's "front woman." While I'm no expert in Filipino food, I ate Dinuguan my first day and it was out.of.this.world. This beef dish and their noodles were so good that even after sampling other establishments in Pike Place, I came back here - and did not return anywhere else - on my second day at the Market and sampled their outrageously good pork. I recommend Leila and her Mart to any food tourist and culinary explorer since the tastes were unreal and the company was superb. My only regret about the Mart is that I live 3,000 miles away and can't go back to visit there all the time!

Saw this off the road from the Market and decided to stop on. The Pancit and Adobo were great and the staff was super friendly!! Reminded me of my Grandmother's cooking. We will come back.

Hidden in some corner in pike market. Will definitely satisfy your craving for Filipino food. Also sells groceries too.

This little spot looks like a knick knack shop, however this family owned restraint serves the BEST salmon sinagon soup ever! This is a sweet and sour based soup with wild salmon. It's a MUST. Not to mention the chicken adobo and the pancit. If u don't know Filipino food, don't worry it's awesome! Don't miss it and make sure u tell the cook " salamat po!"

My friends & I had to visit this place since she has won the prestigious James Beard award for Filipino cuisine! Her food was delish! Every meal starts with steam rice and pancit and then u pick 2 entrees. The portions were big and she even gives u a soup broth to go with your meal! We were in Seattle for 5 days and we went there 2X! Highly recommend this place if u want to try Filipino food.

We were in town for only 2 days and my friend wanted to visit this place after seeing it on Bizarre Foods. The stall was an easy find and we were super excited to try their famous Salmon Sinigang. We were initially disappointed when we heard that this dish was sold out. It was only 2 pm!!! After hearing our sob story, Leila checked her ingredients and agreed to make a batch just for us. How amazing is that? Seriously...I have never seen customer service so genuine. 15 minutes later, we came back to a heaping bowl of soup that was generously filled with salmon collar and halibut. Leila also got me to try the dinuguan adobo. I've never had the desire to try blood pudding before, but she somehow talked me into taking a bite...and it was damn good! We also bumped into grandma and recognized her from the show...super adorable!

Hungry at the market? You could stand in line at one of the over hyped places or you could find your way to the back of the Oriental Mart where Filipino comfort food awaits. We had a generous portion of adobo chicken with rice and pancit. It was tasty and filling and no wait. When compared to our $60 breakfast for two, this $20 lunch was the winner of the day. If you are on a budget or even if not, Don't miss it.

The owners of this great little food stall need a better name than "Oriental Mart." It just doesn't do justice to its delicious food! The adobo here is super yummy. The sinigang, a type of fish soup, beats the chowder at Pike's Place. Best of all, since its not as well known as the other places, there's never much of a line. Eat here!

This unassuming spot right across from the main corner at Pike Place Market looks just like a random goods shop in any Asiantown in a major American city. But behind the market is a real-deal Filipino food kitchenette/lunch counter that was such a wonderful find after a busy day of visiting vendors. I was craving my native cuisine, and the O-Mart (and its very funny and colorful handwritten signage) did not disappoint. So much so that we went twice. We first had a late lunch with pork adobo and longanisa - which came with a giant scoop of steamed white rice and a side of pansit. I love that longanisa taste - sweet, gloppy, but still unmistakably sausage - and theirs delivered. Ate Leila was nice enough to fry us up some turon too (their lumpia runs out early). We had such a wonderful time chatting them up that we promised to be back the next morning. Especially because Leila promised us some garlic fried rice topped with fried eggs. And that's exactly what we got - with more longanisa. We also cleaned out their supply of dried mangoes at the mart. Non-Filipino style dried mangoes simply do not compare. While we didn't have the signature sinigang, I will point out that this dish is usually *not* prepared with fresh salmon. Theirs is. So any newcomers reading this - that would be a very special introduction to a very traditional, cure-everything soup dish. More adventurous folks will try the dinuguan (made with pork's blood, or "chocolate meat" as my parents jokingly called it). The atmosphere was very welcoming and really could have been any old Saturday at my titas' place. True to form, the family that runs this joint were very, very friendly (even to someone of Filipino origin like myself who does not speak a word of conversational Tagalog). I'm not surprised they get loads of Filipino crew and service workers on the days those boats pull into Seattle - anyone who wanted a real taste of home would head here. Look, it'll never exactly replicate every single Filipino's experience growing up with this cuisine. (Yes, we tend to be very picky about the way we like our stock dishes, because each family's recipe for adobo, pansit, sinigang, etc., is so personal.) And I'd be really worried if the Filipino joint *wasn't* a lunch counter with everything sitting out there - that's just how it's worked for years. But bottom line, I highly recommend this place. A hidden gem amongst Seattle's most famous tourist attraction.

I have passed by this place many times but just saw in on youtube so I decided to go. I love Filipino food and make it at home also. I am not Filipino. I saw the salmon Sinigang advertised on youtube. It sounded so good. We got there and I don’t think they made enough that I had to pick half and half, so I picked the pork adobo and the soup. My friend picked the chicken adobo. The food came pretty quick. The salmon sinigang is made with the whole fish so I was dissecting the fish. The broth of this soup is so good. It has mustard greens and a sour flavor that is so good. I wish I could make this broth. I wished there had been more salmon meat. The pork and chicken adobo were okay. I like mine better. I do want to make that broth though. I am gonna try in the fall. Also I was eating and got a long piece of plastic in my soup. Not sure how it got in there but I brought it to their attention and they apologized. Also I was lucky to get to try the soup because they ran out….might have been the youtube video.

Yum. This was a stop on the walking food tour I took through Pike Place and I wanted to go back and get a full plate of food so bad! We tried a few things, and unfortunately I can't remember at all what they were called, but they were all so good. Definitely a stop I'm going to make when I'm in Seattle again! It's kind of hidden down below street level- but worth the search!

I've been curious about Filipino food for a while so I decided to get the chicken adobo dish with rice and vermicelli noodles. I'm glad they use drumsticks since dark meat is much more flavourful. It's a pretty plain dish and not really worthy of all the hype it gets from my Filipino friends. The service was cheerful despite all the snarky signs they have in their store. It was cheap and it filled me up... Mission accomplished. Think I'll try the Salmon sinigang soup next time.

A totally amazing and very tasty lunch of Pork Adobo, with awesome longganisa , Rice , Pancit, chicken wings and Salmon Sinigang. Ate Boss serves great food and you can taste the love and passion of the cooking in every mouthful . Simply , Great Food , Great service , Arrive to a welcoming smile , leave with a happy and contented tummy .No visit to Seattle is complete without a visiting Ate , her team and enjoying a wonderful lunch.

If you want excellent tasting Filipino cuisine without fancy seating or atmosphere, this is the place to get it. Their pancit is great.

I don't get why people keep commenting that this place serves good food??? their food is tasteless and the place seems unsanitary. I ordered pancit and adobo. Both are tasteless. I can't even rely on the sauces (ie: soy sauce, vinegar, fish sauce, etc) to correct the taste. I have eaten so many Filipino foods and this one has the worst food. The only thing that is positive during my experience was that the workers were very approachable and friendly. But i guess that is the reason why these customers keep giving 4-5 stars. I think they rate the service and the friendliness and the pleasant chit-chats, not the food. One exception though, the old lady who watches (or stares) at her customers eat food. i guess she makes sure that her customers consume the tasteless food that she cooked. poor customers. I would give it 0 stars.

This place is fun and family owned with fantastic food. Make it a must-stop on your next Pike Place food adventure. Trust the owner and ask for "a little bit of everything." Take a moment to get to know this food and the passion of the gals behind the counter.

Stumbled upon Oriental Mart during an unexpected stopover in Seattle. It's tucked away behind a grocery store and even the title of the place wouldn't lead you to believe there's a great little restaurant back there with awesome food and sassy, hilarious, and generous service. I was hungry, but wanted to try a little bit of everything... guess what? You totally can. I had the salmon sinigang and was shown the proper way to eat it, sampled some longaniza (INCREDIBLE!), and had a bit of pork adobo. All the while, Leila was chatting with us and was super nice throughout our meal. We will be back for sure!

This sign is above the store. The food network spotlight on this food stand is spot on. My brother and I and our kids-my son age 11, daughter age 14 and his daughter age 18 went there for lunch. The signature dish was the sinigang salmon fish collar which is a stew with a tamarind base. The stew has mustard greens and other veggies. There was barely enough left to sample and it looks like we got the last of it at about 130 pm! This was a testament to how popular the dish has become. We also ordered and shared pancit(noodles), pork fried rice, pork adobo and longanisa(sweet sausage). I must say that this was close as it gets to home cooking. Everything is made from scratch and the quantities are limited. All of it made with tender loving care. Not a large restaurant. In fact it's a stand with seats at a small counter. The place appears neat and clean and the employees are extremely nice. And the prices are very reasonable. Masarap!

A total culinary experience! There's a reason the market traders eat here. What sweet ladies and what amazing fresh food! Leila and her "good" sister and Mama! Authentic Filipino food at its very best cooked with care, personality and love. Once you complete Leila's interview you may qualify to dine and enjoy! Check out You tube, all recipes, chicken adobo. That's our girl right there! Not at all expensive, the sampler was awesome!

This unpretentious little hole in the wall is bound to be overlooked by the undiscerning diner. If one looks closer however, the fact that Filipinos are bent over healthy helpings of delicious food while others are lined up waiting for their turn should make one pause and get in line to see what's going on. Ask for recommendations if you're unfamiliar with Filipino food. The pancit is noodles, always a safe bet, the adobo is chicken or pork in sauce, also safe...then there are the foods for the more adventurous spirit. Try the sinigang. It's made with fresh salmon or halibut, sourish broth and mustard greens. Make sure to read the multitude of signs they have up too; some pretty funny stuff like "If you're talking on the cell phone, don't talk to me...rext me your order when you're done"...and a phone number is provided. Love it.