This March 1 (Thursday), 10 am at the PICC, Kyle Imao, hailed as the first Pinoy Junior Masterchef will be in the midst of major players in the food and beverage industry.
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Showing posts with label Restaurants. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Restaurants. Show all posts
Thursday, March 01, 2012
1 1st Pinoy Junior Masterchef To Grace The PIFBEX
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Tuesday, February 28, 2012
5 Dinner at Ristorante Bigoli
February 26, 2012 - Dinner Time. After hearing mass in St. Pio's chapel in Eastwood, me and my Grumpy went on to have dinner before we head home. Since we are on a tight budget already, I remember my friend told me about this place - yummy and affordable. Hmm.. My Grumpy was a bit hesitant at first..
I remember this was Fazoli's before. Not sure when this was changed to Bigoli though. We entered the place and it seems quite busy. There was a party going on, on their second floor so it was a bit noisy too. But there we're only few people in the counter ordering for their food. The place is well lighted. I like it. It didn't hurt my eyes. Eventhough it was our first time here, we didn't have a hard time choosing our food. Just by looking at the pictures and some descriptions while the cashier patiently waited for us while smiling, we got our food.
Here's what we got:
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| Their free garlic bread while waiting for our food. |
The garlic bread is awesome!! It is the same garlic bread I remember when it was still Fazoli's. And these are unlimited, bottomless garlic bread. Haha!
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| Pork Picatta w/ Spaghetti Marinara Php 150.00 |
The pork picatta is great. My Grumpy loves it. The pork is filled with ham and cheese inside and is crunchy outside. Its good because the cheese didn't overpower the overall taste of the pork. The marinara sauce is good too!
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| Bistecca Classic w/ choice of Italian Rice or Mashed Potato Php 289.00 |
Bistecca Classic was heaven for me. They got my taste of well-done steak. The flavor is just right. They put a great twist of their premium beef, juicy and served with mixed vegetables. For the first time, I ate the veggies in my plate. Before, I usually set them aside. But this time, they smells so good. Smell like butter. So I tasted a piece of carrot, and surprisingly, I love it. I love that they put enough butter for the veggies so it won't taste like raw. And the Italian rice was a surprise. It has a distinct taste. At first, I thought I will not like it. But on my second and third spoon, I'm starting to appreciate its taste. Its really wonderful!
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| A slice of All Meat Pizza Php 80 |
Yes, you can order for a slice of pizza. But this one was a fail. It was over-cooked. See in the photo, the ground beef (colored dark). The crust is not good, too. But still, I like its taste.
++ Bottomless soda Php 60
++ Bottled water Php 25
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Total: Php 604.00
My Own Rating:
Food: 4 out of 5
Service: 4 out of 5
Ambiance : 4.5 out 5
Money: 5 out 5
This place made it to our list. I'm inlove with the Bistecca Classic and this time, I will visit their branch in TriNoma next time.
Ristorante Bigoli
Location: Ciitywalk, Eastwood, QC Philippines
Facebook Page: Here
Twitter: Here
Love,
3 Dinner at Causeway Seafood Restaurant
February 25, 2012 – Dinner time. I was starving for dimsum
for days now. And while we are already in a tight budget because it’s almost
payout time , my Grumpy suggested that
we go to Causeway. He has been telling me about his experience with this place.
He said, I will literally be drowning in dimsum here. Finally, I gave in and in just a couple of
minutes, we are already in there. Since it was a weekend, the place was kinda
jam-packed. I thought its gonna be all Chinese against us, but I was actually
surprised that there were more Filipinos than Chinese. Haha! Only proves that we all love to eat.
Here’s what we got:
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| Pork Siomai - We had 4 orders of this. Sooo yummy!! |
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| Yang Chow Fried Rice |
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| Lechon Macau |
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| Fish Fillet in Tausi Sauce |
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| Boneless Chicken in Lemon Sauce |
I looove the food. The pork siomai is heaven. I am a siomai
person. I can have siomai for breakfast, lunch and dinner. I can eat 20-30
siomai in one sitting. Haha! I love all
that we order.
Summary:
4 orders of Pork Siomai : Php 240.00
Lechon Macau : Php 220.00
Yang Chow Fried Rice : Php 125.00
Fish Fillet in Tausi Sauce : Php 260.00
Boneless Chicken in Lemon Sauce : Php 260.00
2 Coke in can : Php 90.00
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Total: Php 1,195.00
My own rating:
Food : 5 out
of 5
Service : 4
out of 5
Ambiance : 4
out 5
Price : 5
out 5
Causeway
Seafood Restaurant
Location :
883 Banawe, QC Philippines
Contact #:
(02) 740 8787
Love,
0 Dinner at Pizza Hut Bistro
February 23, 2012 – Dinner time. Me and my Grumpy decided to
get a late night dinner. We can’t decide where, but we eventually got our feet
in Gateway Mall, Cubao. This is the most accessible and easiest place for us
with the good help of LRT.
Since it was already closing time, we didn’t bother to check
out other restaurants. We immediately got ourselves a seat in Pizza Hut Bistro.
I was excited to get a taste of my favorite pasta – Aglio Olio and my Grumpy on
his penne in cream & tomato pasta. There were only a few tables occupied
that time since it was almost closing time.
Here’s what we got:
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| Aglio Olio Pasta |
My all-time favorite Aglio Olio of Pizza Hut was a boo that
time. I dunno, but maybe it because it was already almost closing time that
their cooks are anxious to go home. See from the photo that it has still some
liquid with it. Tsk. And because of this, the taste was also affected.. Sad..
This one’s my 2nd favorite. My Grumpy loves this sooo much
that he orders this everytime we’re in Pizza Hut Bistro.
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| Tuscani Roast Beef Pizza |
This pizza is really good. My Grumpy didn’t like that it has
mayonaise on top. But I thought, it was just right. The sourness of mayonaise
was just enough to compliment the taste of the beef and cheese.
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| Bottomless Mountain Dew & Shirly Temple |
I still love this place and their food.
Aglio Olio –
Php 109.00
Penne Pasta
– Php 159.00
Tuscani
Pizza – Php 349.00
Bottomless
Mountain Dew – Php 79.00
Shirly Temple
– Php 150.00
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Total: Php
846.00
My own rating:
Food : 4 out of 5
Service : 4 out of 5
Ambiance : 4 out of 5
Price : 4 out 5
Pizza Hut
Bistro
Location: GF
Gateway Mall, Araneta Center, Cubao QC Philippines
Website:
Here
Contact:
(02) 911-11-11
Love,
Saturday, February 25, 2012
8 Mid-Night Snack with Johnny Rockets
Last Tuesday, I had the chance to meet up with one of my girl friends for 3 main reasons: 1 - so she can get her piyaya which I bought for her in Cebu when I was there 2 - so she can accompany me in giving the other pasalubongs to my Ninong and 3 - so we can catch up. Been weeks since we saw each other. She has been going through something with her family and I was busy with my personal whereabouts too. We don't usually plan our meetups. We just text each other, see if we're free, if so, then, off we go. Haha! Fiinally, we found the day and time that we're both okay. After distributing the pasalubongs to my other friends, we got ourselves into Johnny Rockets' seats in Eastwood. We're not hungry. We just want a place to catch up on our story-telling sessions. It was 10 in the evening. We were the only customer during that time. Here's what we got:
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| Bacon Cheddar Burger (we got 2 of this, one for me & for my Rain - my friend's son) |
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| Tuna Sandwhich |
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| Cheese Fries |
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| Chicken Tenders |
We also ordered the chocolate shake, cookies & cream shake and root beer float. The first 3 foods came in about after 20mins. The chicken tenders, probably the cook forgot about it, delivered to our table at exactly 45mins after we placed our orders. I was starting to get irritated that time. Considering that we we're the only customers that time and there were a lot of crews doing nothing. Some were actually busy rehearsing on their stupid dance performance along with the Manager On Duty.
I wasn't able to take a picture of our shakes, but I'm telling you, they are the worst shakes I've ever tasted. Can you imagine a chocolate shake that doesn't feel like a shake? Its like melted chocolate ice cream that's not cold at all!! I kept my composure and decided not to talk to the Manager anymore.
We have to asked for our bill twice with different crews. Because the 1st crew forgot that we asked for it, she's was busy watching her colleagues rehearsing. So I have to raise my voice and call the manager and ask her to get the bill for us. After a while, we got it. The change got back to our table after 15mins!!
2 Bacon Cheddar Burger
1 Tuna Sandwhich
1 Cheese Fries
1 Chicken Tenders
1 Chocolate Shake
1 Root Beer Float
1 Cookies & Cream Shake
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Php2,4++.00
Kaching!! Not worth it at all. Embarrasing.
My own rating:
Food: 3 out of 5
Service: 2 out 5
Ambiance: 4 out 5
Price: 2 out 5
Date and Time of visit: February 21, 2012 - 10pm
Johnny Rockets
Location: GF Eastwood Mall Veranda, E. Rodriguez Jr., Ave., Libis, Quezon City Philippines
Contact #: 02 470 2117
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
1 Dinner at Conti's
Last Sunday, Feb. 19, 2012 was our monthsary. We headed to see a movie then went to a dinner. We decided to try and visit Conti's again, in TriNoma Mall. The place is as usual jam-packed that we have to wait for merely 20mins to be seated. Since it's full, the place was really noisy. We can't even hear ourselves talking to each other. Even we we're talking to the waiter to give our orders, both us and the waiter needed to raise our voice in order to hear each other, literally.
I am really not a fan of this place. I thought their food is just so-so. Nothing to crave about. Except of course for their desserts. Aside from you won't have the feeling that you're in a little classy restaurant like this, this branch in TriNoma will give you the feeling of being in a fast food chain.
Here's what we got this time.
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| I got myself brewed coffee. See, they served this with the ordinary creamer. Gosh. |
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| For me: Chicken ala Keiv. Two Thumbs down. |
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| For Him: Grilled Pork Chops. Uhm, pwede na daw. |
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| Appetizer: Gambas. Thumbs Up. |
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| Dessert: Slice of giant Mango Bravo cake. 4 thumbs up. |
Total catch on our wallet: Less than a thousand. But I feel like, it's not worth it.
My own rating:
Food: 2 out of 5
Service: 3 out 5
Place: 3 out 5
Value: 3 out of 5
Sigh,
Friday, February 17, 2012
21 I've Given Up
SM San Lazaro is very convenient to our house that's why me and my grumpy's always here for dinner everytime I'm too lazy to prepare dinner. And Aristocrat has been one of our favorites here. But, eversine, the service is not good but still tolerable.
Today, February 16, 2012 is the worst. This made me really, really pissed off and the good reputation of Aristocrat has fallen to its lowest point.
We ordered the usual favorite boneless chicken barbeque and zizzling gambas. The waitress who got our orders seems nervous and not understanding what we're saying...
We waited almost 40mins for our food!! There we're a lot of customers and we noticed, there's only one "veteran" waiter who's serving the food. Those "newbie-looking" crews are just taking orders or cleaning up the tables. Seeing that there are lots of customers, the manager is nowhere to be found on the floor.
When we got our food, we just let go of what's happening. The table next to us was a family who's celebrating a birthday. They asked the "newbie" waitress to take a picture of them. Then, we noticed that she was excited to take their pictures. Not like when she was taking our orders, she was so smart-like this time.
Several customers we're also waiving their hands to get the attention of the other crews, some we're asking for glass of water, some we're asking to clean their table and some we're asking for their bill. The table on the other side, finally got the attention of the "veteran" waiter and hand-gestured that they wanna get their bill. After 10mins, their bill was given to them.
When it's time for us to get our bill, I was waiving my hands and no one from the crews on the floor seems to be looking. So I literally uttered "excuse me, I'd like to get our bill, pls." I made sure, my voice will be loud enough to be heard on the other side. One crew acknowledged my request and got our bill after 15mins. Gosh!!
And we waited almost 15mins to get our change!!!! I was really really mad. When our change was brought to us, the manager gave us a handwritten-manual receipt. Like duh!! Is this why you took so long, that you're POS is not working?? For crying out loud, fix your system!!
Today, I finally gave up with Aristocrat. I mean, your food is great, no doubt about that. But your service sucks, big time. You have a very incompetent crews and managers. The next time, I visit one of your restaurants again, I'll make sure, I'm not hungry, because I'm sure I'll have to wait for ages before I get my food.
The Aristocrat Restaurant
Branch: SM San Lazaro
Date of visit: February 16, 2012
Time of visit: 7:30 pm
Sad,
2 Friday Lunch at TGI Friday's
It was last Friday (February 10, 2012) when we were in Cebu, when I realized I wanted my grumpy meet a friend of mine in Cebu. Since I have been telling stories already about my friend and have been mentioning her to him, he agreed to me. So, we decided to have lunch at Ayala Center Mall. I'm always happy whenever my grumpy will be meeting my friends. He seldom joins me with my friends. He chooses people to go with. And he's literally up-front with me if he didn't want that person to be my friend. Haha! So, this time, I felt good that he seemed interested with this particular friend of mine. I didn't even heard anything like negative perceptions or any doubts while we were on our way to Ayala. He even chose which stuff toy to give to my friend's daughter. Nice noh?! I love my grumpy even more. lol
After the introducing part, hi's and hello's, my grumpy, being so quiet, just listened to me and my friend telling stories and catching up with each other. We haven't seen each other for 8 months that's why, we never ran out of things to talk about. From time to time, my grumpy would comment on our discussions and after that, he'll be quiet again. While the little Khish2 (my friend's daughter) is busy with her new pink teddy bear, we continued talking and laughing at most of our discussions while waiting for our food.
Here's what we got:
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| My Fave!! Friday's Pork Adobo Friday's savory version of most beloved Filipino Adobo. Pork marinated w/ spices and seasoning, slow-cooked to fell off the bone tenderness. Served with steamed rice and corn on the cob. Php 435 |
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| For my friend: Jack Daniel's Chicken & Shrimps Juicy fire-grilled chicken breasts drizzeled with Jack Daniel's & some crispy cajun -spiced shrimps with more sauce for dipping. Served with choice of mashed potato or rice and corn on the cob. Php 565 |
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| For the little lady: Chicken Fingers Strips of chicken breast, battered and deep-fried, served with crispy fries & honey mustard dressing. Php 280 |
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| For my Grumpy: Jack Daniel's Half Rack Ribs & Shrimps Half rack of cajun-spiced baby back pork, fire-grilled & glazed with Jack Daniel's sauce. Added with butterfilled shrimps, battered and fried until crisp and served with choice of crispy fries or rice. Php 895 |
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| Strawberry Lemonade |
I must say, this one, I was successful on getting my grumpy like my new friend. Haha! While we all enjoy the food, including little Khish2 who literally enjoyed TGI Friday's ketchup (Heins), we were all satisfied. We even had some left overs for take home.
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| The Menu |
My own rating:
Food: 5 out of 5
Service: 4 out of 5
Ambiance: 5 out of 5
Value: 5 out 5
Same as with other restaurants, you see the price of the food we ordered were a little higher compared to others, but I must say, this is all worth every of your penny. You won't have any regrets, I'm sure.
Ciao!
T.G.I. Friday's
L1 Ayala Center Cebu, Philippines
Ph Website & Branches: Here
Global Website: Here
Facebook: Here
Twitter: Here
Thursday, February 16, 2012
11 Dessert Overload in Maitre Chocolatier
It was the night of my Grumpy's birthday and was the last leg of his day. And at the same time, I was really craving and drooling to have sweets, like cakes, ice cream or anything that's really, really sweet. There's just something in me that wants to be overloaded with chocolates and sweets. After dinner, we went to Maitre Chocolatier. The place is really nice. This is not new to Cebu since this has been here for quite sometime already. If you want chocolate on breakfast, lunch and dinner, this is the place to be. This place offers a wide array of high quality, European chocolate brands and innovative culinary creations. The desserts are based on well-known European and well - they are really pricey too. But they all tastes sooooo good. Most of their food are soaked in real imported chocolate brands like ferrero rocher, lindt, toblerone, frey and ritter sports chocolate.
Maitre Chocolatier interiors are posh and romantic - that's why I love this place. Perfect for dates with your special someone.
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| The menu, interiors, rays of chocolates |
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| The chocolate cake being displayed |
And here's what we got for ourselves:
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| Maitre Golden Euphoria - Ferrero Hazelnut Crunch Cake Tempting chocolate hazelnut mousse on a velvety chocolate sponge cake with the enchanting Ferrero hazelnut Php 218/slice ; Php 1,850 whole |
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| Angel's Confection - Nutelle Mousse Cake Experience the real taste of Ferrero Nutella formed into delicate and silky mousse cake topped with golden Nutella from heaven Php 176/slice |
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| Iced-blended Classic Chocolate Php 150 |
My own rating:
Food: 5 out ot 5
Service: 5 out of 5
Place: 5 out of 5
Value: 5 out f 5
Notice that I am rating the value for money 5 out 5 eventhough they're a bit-pricey, I think, its all worth it, that's why.
Will definitely visit their branch here in Manila, too.
Cheers!
The Maitre Chocolatier Boutique Cafe
Level 1, The Terraces, Ayala Center Cebu, Philippines
Branches & Contact Details: Here
Website: Here
Facebok: Here
0 Lunch at the Dessert Factory
Recently, I has lunch with my colleagues in Cebu. For the name of this place, they got beautiful and yummy desserts here. But it seems I am more in love with their other dishes. I always enjoy their food here. Pork, beef, chicken are well-cooked and flavorful. And this time I visited Cebu again, this place is one on my list which I want to catch u with some friends.
Here's what we got:
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| Hungarian Sausage in Penne Pasta |
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| Sweet & Sour Fish |
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| Kinamatisang Kawali |
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| Boneless Crispy Pata |
The moment you enter this place, their staff will greet you. If all staff are busy attending to other customers, expect the manager to be roaming around, helping and assisting the customers, too. They will accompany you to your seat - very welcoming. And you just have to love the Jester's hat that all their staff is wearing. It denotes fun and making their customers feel relaxed and comfortable. The place is designed so colorful and cartoony. There are even big dolls in their cakes area.
My own rating:
Food : 5 out ot 5
Service: 5 out of 5
Ambiance: 5 out of 5
Value: 5 out of 5
Ciao!
The Dessert Factory
3/F The Terraces, Ayala Center Cebu, Philippines
Phone #: 032 233 2351
Facebook: Here
