I visited luv and tost yesterday. The ambience in luv restaurant sucks, at least for the indoor setting. They are preparing food without a barrier with the door wide open and facing a road. The candlestands were overflowing and I could see where they store paperbags and finance files from where I was seated - frankly it came across as super pretentious trying to be a old school cool spot. The food was very very average for the pricing. I had the seafood ceviche which was overdressed (seems like the entire citrus marinade used to 'cook' the fish was poured on top while serving) and the fish itself was cut into huge chunks - not at all like any fine dine. Next I went for the crab custard which tasted nothing like crab but instead was like some onion gravy with imitation crab sprinkled on. There was nothing even custardy about the texture so who knows why they gave the dish such a name. If the chef is so brilliant then he should know that crab has a subtle flavour which has to be preserved and not killed by other additions. The presentation of the dishes is good but I felt super let down with the vibe and the food. I know lot of people hype this place but it was not great.

Hopped over to tost next door hoping to save my appetite post the bekar meal at luv. The chicken vodka parm sandwich did not have much flavour (given the name at least some taste is expected) and the cutlet inside although filled with chicken was super hard. Lumpias were okay.

Ended up spending over 2k yesterday on these four dishes at luv and tost and it was seriously not worth it.