Max’s Restaurant
“I tried a little bit of everything, from the rice to the various types of wings and the fried chicken.”
“After placing our food order, we did anticipate a wait so we ordered their Max's teaser (combo of lumpiang shanghai & calamares).”
“It's shaved ice in coconut milk, topped with a custardy flan, taro ice cream, and assorted coconut jelly candies.”
Max’s Restaurant
Takes Reservations: Yes
Take-out: Yes
Accepts Credit Cards: Yes
Bike Parking: Yes
Wheelchair Accessible: Yes
Good for Kids: Yes
Good for Groups: Yes
Waiter Service: Yes
Caters: Yes
Price range.
$$ Price range $11-30
8 reviews
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Wasnt crazy about this place. Came here on a weeknight with a group of 7 or so. Staff and service were fine, the food was questionable, though. Started with some lumpia (always a good choice) and then had the pork belly sisig. I feel like they used weird cuts of pork to make this, it was very fatty – not that flavorful and the dish itself was literally an ebtire plate of meat (you had to pay extra for the rice) which was a bit misleading.
I was always interested in trying that place, but now that i have….im at peace with not trying again. And who knows, maybe it was my particukar order – others in my party got the chicken and seemed to enjoy, maybe that would have been a safer bet.
Max's is a surprisingly huge Filipino restaurant in Jersey City with huge private event spaces and awesome traditional cuisine. Parking was pretty easy on the street as meters end at 6PM, though the area is a little dark and up and coming. The ground floor does takeout and normal tables, but the upstairs is where the action is. There are two huge spaces for large parties. We had the traditional buffet where you eat with your hands, yep, no silverware at all. Only the rice and thin noodles were difficult. The food was excellent with standouts of the chicken and the garlic pork which was incredible. The Filipino beer they have was also quite nice, especially the less common Red Horse which is a bit heavier and more full bodies than the San Miguel, a typical lager. The dessert was tasty, but the plantain fritters weren't as flavor packed as the rest of the food. The service was excellent from beginning to end, especially the owner who brought this chain over from the Philippines and kept checking in with us to make sure everything was great. Perfect place for a group event or just trying some unique food.
Good old Filipino food. The place can get crowded.
Minus 1 star because the size of their full chicken's the size of a bird.
Parking's municipal or street parking. Customer service is decent.
Very far from where I live but I don't mind traveling just to eat in this restaurant. Very good filipino food that taste like home! I'm from the philippines & food here is authentic filipino food.
Tried this reataurant a lot of times already. I always order the fried chicken, sinigang and letchon kawali. Those are my favorite food. Sinigang is a soup base with pork or beef that taste a little sour and letchon kawali is a deep fried pork belly. They have my favorite dessert too, the halo halo and it is a mixture of shaved ice and evaporated milk with some jelly & flan. Yummy!!!
We decided to grab a bite to eat since it was still early enough to beat the church crowd on a Sunday. We barely waited 5 mins and were seated upstairs. Someone immediately took our order of pork sisig, longsilog, and tapsilog, which came out in about 15 mins. The longsilog was pretty tasty, as well as the sisig. The sisig came out on a sizzling plate and I liked the crunchy crispy bits along with the fatty pieces! However, my husband was not thrilled with his tapsilog and said it lacked flavor. Everything was quite salty (as expected) and within minutes, my rings were tight on my fingers. The food was decent but I wasn't completely wow'd by the meal. I made myself drink water during the meal to combat some of that saltiness. We waited a bit for our server to come back with the check. I ordered a full fried chicken to go for my parents so maybe I'll update my review once I've had a chance to try their chicken out again (been a few yrs!)
I ordered for takeout so I can't really comment on service, but it being a Filipino restaurant, it's safe to say that it will be friendly and courteous.
I ordered a whole chicken and pork belly sisig. The chicken is Max's signature dish and it's an acquired taste – the skin is crispy but oily, the meat is okay, not that moist and tender and the size of the chicken will be smallish – it's just the way it is. What makes it different is when you dip it in the Banana ketchup – yup, that's the taste of my childhood.
The Pork belly Sisig, on the other hand, is the bomb! The skin is crispy and the meat so flavorful that I needed rice to tone it down a bit as it is overwhelmingly delicious eaten by itself. The sauce with onions and soy is just perfect. I will definitely eat that again.
Meh. It was ok. Take an authentic Filipino restaurant and marry it to a Five Guys. And there you go. Try the fired chicken. It's good.
It's kept clean and the service is ok..
Has an upstairs for parties and events.
Finally a Filipino sit-down restaurant that's good enough to bring my white friends.
GASP!?! O-M-G…did he go there, you're probably thinking.
But – come on – lets be real here.
A vast amount of the Filipino spots are mostly "turo-turo" type of places where the food is pre-made, under a hot lamp, where the food isn't necessarily hot.
This place – like the ones in the Philippines are all made to order.
The menu – is easy to read, not bible of different types of foods – just the ones that are popular. And they are translated and described well. I'll definitely be back for a second visit.
Notable dishes:
Gulaman – jelly drink with tapioca
Lechon Kawali – fried pork belly.
Sizzling Chicken Sisig – awesome dish. Didn't think i'd like chicken livers, but ended up enjoying it.
Dishonorable mentions:
Pancit Palabok – This thing literally hand 1 dried up piece of shrimp. I guess i was supposed to be happy with all the egg they placed on top.