Love in different tongues
By Pocholo Concepcion
Conspiracy Garden Café (59 Visayas Ave., Project 6, Quezon City) is the offshoot of an idea that musicians can open and operate their own venue for live performances.

Conspiracy Garden Café (59 Visayas Ave., Project 6, Quezon City) is the offshoot of an idea that musicians can open and operate their own venue for live performances.

How we should view art, everyday objects and space beyond the norm is the design premise of the new Artlab of artists and provocateurs Cesare and Jean Marie Syjuco.

Every year, dozens of new restaurants open to much fanfare. Original concepts and foreign chains with everything, from specialty tea to steamed chicken, vie for the attention of Filipinos, inveterate foodies.

Everyone of us may know or recommend one or two favorite hole-in-the-wall restaurants that serve quite delicious food and are not part of mainstream dining.
While we were living abroad, huddling in the gray chill of late autumn as the dark nights drew in, a rose-colored apparition would manifest itself in our frost-bitten imaginations about sitting down to a smorgasbord of hearty Filipino fare, with long-lost friends sitting around the table in cheerful bonhomie.

We all go through an intense pizza craving every once in a while. Well-traveled connoisseurs don’t just settle for any pie—they long for the real, mouthwatering New York/Sicilian experience, which a good majority sadly haven’t found in Manila yet.