Cafeccino?s homemade pizza is a crispy crust, topped with top-secret sauce, pepperoni, sausages, artichoke, olives and tomatoes complemented with mozzarella cheese. Visit Cafeccino by Dome at G/F, Eastwood Mall Promenade, tel. 4703722.

Cucumber, dried shrimp and peanut salad

The Peninsula Manila offers Thai cuisine with Spices Specialty Thai chef Phaitoon Atthasarn, Feb. 23-March 13. Khun Phaitoon will prepare authentic home-style cooking featuring his signature dishes like Som Tum Teang Far (Cucumber, Dried Shrimp and Peanut Salad), Gaeng Jed Look Log (Clear Egg Dumpling Soup with Glass Noodles and Fried Garlic) and Ped Yang Phad Horra Pa (Spicy Roasted Duck in Oyster Sauce, Sweet Basil and Fresh Green Peppercorn). Call 8872888, loc. 6754 and 6755 (Spices) or 6694 (restaurant reservations).

Almond puree

Peking Garden offers Fortune Set Menu which includes seafood rice topped with garlic crabs; shark?s fin soup with shredded chicken & Yunan ham; Peking duck; fried prawns and fresh scallops with Chinjew sauce; deep-fried lapu-lapu with fresh mango sauce; braised dried oysters and fish maw with sea moss; steamed supreme soup and pork dumplings (siao long pao); sweetened almond puree with glutinous balls. The resto is at 3/L TriNoma Park, Quezon City (tel. 9010502, 9010507); and 4/L, Greenbelt 5 Phase 2, Ayala Center, Makati City (7290567, 7290719).

Smoked Chinese duck

The Bellevue Hotel?s Café d?Asie proffers Smoked Chinese Duck on Chili Onions, Century Egg-Jelly Fish, Lobster-Potato and Egg Salad and Roast Stuffed Beijing Duckling for lunch and dinner. Call 7718181.

Marinated ribs

Chef Donatello Restaurant offers pizza and pasta, marinated ribs, sandwiches and burgers. The resto has branches in SM Megamall, Pagcor, Angeles City Pampanga and Tagaytay.

Crispy ribs ?sinigang?

C2 Classic Cuisine offers a set meal of Aligue Rice, Crispy Ribs Sinigang, Binagoongang Lechon Kawali and Leche Flan. House favorites are Adobo Rice, Tinolang Binakol, Ribs Kaldereta, Pinakbet at Bagnet, Boneless Crispy Pata. Call 6361510, 6361509 (Shangri-La); 8978113 (Rockwell); 4666387 (Robinsons Midtown); 4701152 (Mega Atrium, SM Megamall); 5563196, 5563196 (SMBY SM Mall of Asia); (046) 4830014 (Summit Ridge, Tagaytay); 7104759 (Interior Zone, SM North Edsa); 7262712 (Greenhills).

Crab bisque

The Heritage Hotel Manila?s Roof Garden Terrace offers Sautéed Lobster with Crab Bisque Sauce on Heart-Shaped Puff Pastry, Cream of Fresh Oyster Soup with Mushroom, Roasted Beef Tenderloin with Red Wine Onion Compote & Sautéed Asparagus and Double Baked Potatoes, Seared Salmon with Red Wine Shallot Butter Sauce and Crispy Ginger Butter Spinach Leaf and Marbled Potatoes, Wild Berries Parfait with Passion Fruit Coulis. Call 8548888.

Seafood paradise

Blackbeard?s Seafood Island opens new branches at UP Ayala Land Technohub, Brgy. UP Campus, Quezon City, (tel. 3322256); and TriNoma Mall, Quezon City (tel. 9013608). Other branches are at Eastwood City Libis (tel. 9132694); Fiesta Market! Market! Fort Bonifacio Global City (tel. 8867692); Shopwise Arcade, Araneta Center, Cubao (tel. 9135701).