Restaurateur Vicvic Villavicencio succumbs to heart attack
MANILA, Philippines — Restaurateur and businessman Victor Vincent “Vic Vic” Villavicencio passed away Tuesday, April 30, due to heart attack. He was 67.
April 30, 2019
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MANILA, Philippines — Restaurateur and businessman Victor Vincent “Vic Vic” Villavicencio passed away Tuesday, April 30, due to heart attack. He was 67.
In his years as a pioneering restaurateur, Vicvic Villavicencio made eating with our hands fun at Kamayan.
The success of a restaurant depends on three things: a great location, good, tasty food, and reasonable prices. But when you discover a deal to break all deals, you shout
The announcement had just been made on Facebook, but when restaurateur Vicvic Villavicencio recently opened a new Sambo Kojin branch at SM Megamall, the queue had snaked down the mall’s corridors.
Trust the Villavicencios to think up the ultimate best when it comes to Japanese food. This means the highest grade ingredients from Japan, flown to Manila and served.
It was still a week before payday but the newly renovated Dads on West Avenue, Quezon City, was already filled with people. Diners were going around the different buffet stations, choosing from the wide array of world cuisine, including 70 kinds of sushi.
Foodie and businessman Vicvic Villavicencio has come a long way since he first opened the first Saisaki Japanese restaurant in the mid-1980s. In fact, one could say that with the recent opening of Ogetsu Hime at the fifth level of SM Aura Premier, he has come full circle.
Behind the granite counter, the server slices three-inch thick slabs of beef and pork before the customer. Tender and chewy, these grilled meats, called churrascos in Brazil, are on long skewers with juicy tomatoes.
Lovers of grilled food—and who isn’t?—better take note of a piece of information from veteran restaurateur Vicvic Villavicencio.
Restaurateur VicVic Villavicencio reinvented Filipino dining in his Kamayan restaurant chain, which adopted the Filipino (or Asian) practice of eating with one’s hands. This was in the ’70s when dining at Kamayan was part and parcel of Filipino lifestyle.
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