The place feels like an atelier. It’s as if any minute a craftsman would wield his giant scissors and start snipping away the denim on a mannequin or weld metal to create his sculpture.
Sick and tired of Makati and The Fort? There’s a new restaurant hub in the Metro and it’s not as far as the State of Alabang. It’s Shaw Boulevard.
In the past few months, we have seen some of the best coffee bars in Makati enter the market: Yardstick and The Curator in Legaspi Village; Toby’s Estate and Commune in Salcedo Village; and just last week, Refinery at Rockwell.
Enter a pricey restaurant and you will find the usual: a bisque or cream of whatever soup, pan-seared foie gras, salad with arugula, sea bass, steak and a chocolate lava dessert.
WHAT to do now that temperature has been averaging 33 degrees Celsius, with predictions of the heat rising to 40 degrees these sizzling summer months?
Two great events happened this week in London: the San Pellegrino World’s 50 Best Restaurants Awards, and Chowzter’s World’s Tastiest Fast Feasts Awards.
After the intense debates in the “Off the Menu” Food Forum last month attended by industry leaders, the clamor to further promote Filipino cooking to the world was heard loud and clear.
This April is turning out to be full of nice surprises. Two weeks ago, I sent a message to chef Tonyboy Escalante asking what dates he would be in Singapore, because I was attending the World Gourmet Summit and had heard that he was nominated for an award.
With summer just around the corner and after the excesses of Christmas and Valentine’s, it is time for Lenten penance. Time to start counting calories to resurrect our bikini-worthy bodies or, in most cases like this columnist’s, get rid of that built-in salbabida (floater) in our middle!
In town last Tuesday for the Nespresso Food Forum’s The Next Big Thing were David Thompson, chef of Nahm, which bagged the No. 1 spot at this year’s Asia’s 50 Best Restaurant Awards; Leisa Tyler, regional chair of the World’s 50 Best Restaurant Awards; and Raymond Lim of Les Amis, a restaurant in Singapore that has constantly made it to various lists of Asia’s best.
