Doing the circuit-for food | Lifestyle.INQ

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Black Canyon Coffee Pad Thai

(PART 2)

 

This Christmas, Circuit Makati’s got your cravings covered. Check out the restaurants offering Asian favorites, fresh seafood and warm holiday drinks. Drop by for dinner after the Simbang Gabi, to be held at the second-floor chapel, 6:30 p.m., starting Dec. 15.

 

 

ASIAN FLAVORS

 

Black Canyon Coffee

Thai food and stir-fry

Black Canyon Coffee Pad Thai
Black Canyon Coffee Pad Thai

Pad Thai paired with milky Thai iced tea is Black Canyon Coffee’s bestseller, along with the spicy papaya salad, tom yum soup and bagoong rice. The weekend breakfast menu features Korean bibimbap, salpicao, sausage and mushroom omelette.

Coffee choices are aplenty, as well as cakes and matcha mixes.

Store hours: 11 a.m.-10 p.m., weekdays; 7 a.m.-11 p.m., weekends

 

Shrimp Bucket

Superb seafood 

Shrimp Bucket’s Salty Eggsperience Shrimp
Shrimp Bucket’s Salty Eggsperience Shrimp

Shrimp Bucket serves shrimp, mussels and crab tossed with your choice of sauce: Mardi Gras, Coco-Sol, Coco-Curry, French Lemony Pepper, The Spaniard and, our favorite, Salty Eggsperience which goes well with the meaty shrimp dipped in lemon-pepper sauce.

 

Sides include fresh-cut fries, greens, buttered corn and good ol’ garlic rice.  Make sure to order the Salt & Pepper Crab and  Crispy Belachan Pork—succulent lechon kawali with garlicky bagoong sauce.

 

Store hours: 11 a.m.-11 p.m.

 

Shabu Shabu Ichiban

Unlimited Japanese food!

 

Hotpot has a dated image, but Shabu Shabu Ichiban from Japan is hotpot made hip. Diners can choose from “shabu shabu sets,” explains marketing officer Keiko Sato.

The basic Set A has unlimited meat, dumplings, kimchi, veggies, egg, udon and rice. Set B has all of Set A, plus shrimp tempura, sushi and sashimi. The indulgent Set C includes Alaskan King Crab legs.

 

Sets are priced at P488-P1,888 per person.  There are 24 soup bases; the most popular are Tonkotsu and Spicy Miso. All sets come with chicken wings, Kushikatsu (skewered bean paste cutlet), fried ice cream and drinks.

 

There’s also sake and Japanese beer like Asahi and Kirin.

 

Store hours: 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m., and 5:30-10 p.m., daily

 

 

Shi Lin

Taiwanese cuisine

Shi Lin Braised Beef Noodles
Shi Lin Braised Beef Noodles

You can’t go wrong with the Shilin Fried Chicken, Braised Beef Noodle Soup, Fried Rice with Porkchop and Egg, and the well-loved Xiao Long Bao.

Store hours: 11 a.m.-11 p.m.

 

Seafood Island

Family-style boodle feast

 

Seafood Island serves Filipino fiesta food: sinuglaw, chicken inasal, adobo sa gata, dinadakan. Plus seafood, such as oysters Rockefeller, garlic-pepper crab, clams in coconut and garlic-smothered “Jumbangus.” All goes well with extra extra extra rice.

Store hours: 11 a.m.-11 p.m.

 

PIZZA AND PASTA

 

Steveston Pizza Co.

 

Fulfilling your pizza fantasies

 

Steveston Pizza Co. from Vancouver, Canada, is an all-pizza place with over 30 items to choose from.  The Princess Pizza has a crown of crab meat, prawns, salmon, basil, tomatoes and cheese.  Caveman pizza is loaded with pepperoni, bacon, beef and cold cuts.  A bocconcini ball (mini fresh mozzarella) adorns the center of each whole pizza. Prices: P300 for the basic cheese to P1,899 for the premium, says marketing manager Vanessa Lavares.

 

Store hours:  11 a.m.-11 p.m.

Va Bene Pasta Deli

Intimate Italian dining

 

Va Bene offers Italian dishes served in an elegant café setting. It’s a romantic date place, and an intimate venue for family celebrations. Start off with the Polipo salad with braised octopus, tomatoes, olives and arugula in lemon dressing. Share a margherita pizza and creamy truffle pasta. Indulge in some duck ravioli. Go healthy with an eggplant tortellini. Relax with a cappuccino and a basil panna cotta.

Have a glass of wine, or a whole bottle. Va bene, after all, means “all right.”

 

Store hours: 5-11 p.m., 11:30 a.m.-11 p.m.; closed on Mondays

 

COFFEE AND ALL-DAY BREAKFAST

 

Palm Corned Beef Corner serves “cornsilog” and coffee. Army Navy’s Breakfast Burrito has steak or longganisa, toasted hash browns, scrambled eggs and cheese.

 

Check out Outré’s Milo Dinosaur and Pistachio Gelatos. Enjoy a Honey Apple Chai Tea Latte at Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf. Chill with a Peppermint Mocha at Starbucks, and enjoy the Christmas breeze.

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