Lumpia Shack Snackbar
“If you come here, I highly recommend trying a rice bowl with pork belly and the coconut jalapeno sauce.”
“I got the tofu mushroom rice bowl with Bicol sauce and coconut shaving with mushroom lumpia.”
“Now you no longer have to go all the way to Brooklyn and fight the crowds at Smorgasburg to get delicious, delicious lumpia.”
Lumpia Shack Snackbar
Take-out: Yes
Accepts Credit Cards: Yes
Good for Kids: Yes
Caters: Yes
Price range.
$$ Price range $11-30
8 reviews
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It's a modern spin on Filipino food so it's not very authentic (not that they claim to be) but inspired by the flavors of teaditional filipino dishes. As a Filipino I thought the flavors were spot on but also enhanced with other spices. We got a combination of the pork, mushroom and seasonal vegetable lumpia which are like egg rolls. The lumpia were crispy on the outside and soft and packed with flavor on the inside. The sauce on top complimented each type of lumpia. I would love to come try out their other items on the menu.
Pretty small shop, but makes for a clean and cosy place to sit at (they only have bar stools at a L shaped table along the wall, so it may be hard to find seats with a big group).
I came here with two Filipino friends who highly recommended this place, so I had pretty high expectations and wasn't disappointed. We ordered the sisig rice bowl (different parts of a pig), the pork belly fries and the lumpia, of course. First off – PORK BELLY FRIES. It was really good, but again pork belly is insanely delicious and frying it just enhances the flavors. The lumpia came out hot and was crunchy, and I liked the combination of rice and greens and pork in the rice bowl that makes for a lighter, slightly healthier feeling dish (especially after the pork belly fries!)
Came to the spot after a lovely boat ridefor labor day. My BF and I took a walk afterwards and I spotted this place. As a fellow filipino, of course, I wanted to support them!
Usually, I've never had a great experience with filipino restaurants in NY. I was hoping that this was't going to be bad.
For starters, we ordered:
Pork Lumpia – pork, carrots, celery, garlic, shallots, sweet chili sauce, pickled cucumbers
Mushroom lumpia – adobo braised cremini, shitake, enoki mushrooms, truffled aioli, red chili peppers
For our entree, we had:
Sisig burgers – pork burgers served with bacon, mayo and topped with a funny fried egg!!! Served with home-made chips and baby spinach. This was so good!!
If you see this snackbar, I definitely recommend this place!
I think we prefer the traditional lumpia… Tried to like the lechon fries but way too much fat even for us. A bit pricey and a bit slow. Hard to imagine us coming back here.
Had time to kill before an appointment and got hungry. Stumbled upon this hole-in-the-wall.
It isn't authentic Filipino cuisine but they also don't claim to be – I liked their modern spin on the food. Keep that in mind.
I had the pork belly adobo rice bowl and a lumpia.
It was presented well and I did not wait long. I found the bowl itself lacking balance. There was too much mush and not enough dry. Other texture-fanatics will agree.
The customer service was good.
Nothing wowed me to come back necessarily.
I appreciated it as a nice spot to get a break from walking and get a bite to eat; because of such I would suggest this as a good place to run in and get a snack.
I am torn between 2 and 3 stars. I am going with 3 because the food was ok. It was not bad, it just wasn't that great and it ended up costing almost $30 for 2 people. Not very take-outish.
We both got the pork spare rib bowl thing, with salad and rice, etc. The food was all pretty good (the ribs were very tender), but that is a lot for salad, rice and some meat. We got our food to go and they turned the order around fairly quickly – all good things.
I felt underwhelmed after eating at Lumpia. There are better places for ribs (Mighty Quinn's across the street). and I was kind of meh on salad and rice. Maybe I am being harsh, just my thoughts.
3 1/2. I was really impressed the first time I had a bowl from here because the pork belly was really good, but my excitement for this place has waned after more visits. I always get either the pork belly adobo or the pancit. I love the pancit here, but it was also my first time trying it. I've gotten both the pork and mushroom lumpia with my bowl lunch combo, and I feel like they're just okay and overhyped. The pork belly is not as good as I remember it, and I feel that everything else in the bowl is not as good as the pork belly itself–it's just all kinda plain. The most recent time I ordered from here, I found a short blonde hair in my rice and then later found a short black eyelash in my food…MAJOR turn off, but I understand that this happens in restaurants no matter how hard you might try to prevent it, and I took my food to-go so there was really nothing I could do at that point.
I also hate that they're closed two days of the week 🙁
I don't love it, but I don't hate it, and will probably be back.
Good for a workday lunch, would love to have this in the Fidi, but as a casual passer by I find this to be too expensive, where an order of lumpia is $6 (and really that's just one roll of lumpia cut into 6 pieces, which takes a very small amount of marginal effort to make.) The place is quite cramped and difficult to eat in, which is why I suggest it as a workday to-go or delivery option. But in my capacity as a weekend peruser of the Village, I couldn't get excited about Lumpia Shack Snackbar.