After being extremely successful in offering Italian cuisine in her chain of restaurants, chef Margarita Fores went nostalgic and opened a restaurant in Makati that harks back to the ambiance and food served by her forebears in their former residence in Grace Park, Caloocan.
More a food lover than a wine enthusiast, I was delighted to have been invited to “Sip and Savor,” the intimate wine-pairing event hosted by Club Punta Fuego in partnership with Wine Depot.
AHA Chef Byron de Lemos shows how to prepare Iced Orange Mocha
Some hungry customers began queueing outside the pastry shop around 3:30 am. Others managed to keep their taste buds at bay for a few more hours, arriving at the patisserie around 6:00 am.
Filipino chef Anthony Raymond welcomes the newest challenge in his culinary career—as the corporate chef of the Discovery Leisure Company, which owns and runs Discovery Suites in Ortigas Center, Discovery Country Suites in Tagaytay City and Discovery Shores Boracay.
Until she began selling soups, spreads and dips from her kitchen two months ago, Johanna Garcia worked in government and the corporate world. A stint at Landbank led to a job in the finance department. But her longest stay—six years—was at HSBC where she was SVP for communications and corporate sustainability.
If there’s a Mother’s Day, I guess it’s only fair that there be a Father’s Day, too. Stereotypes aside, while recipes for Mother’s Day tend to be on the dainty and feminine side of the spectrum, for Father’s Day, bold and hefty flavors seem to be the order of the day.
The other night my Easycall 141 went off and I hightailed my Corolla to the spanking new shopping mall called Glorietta, which had replaced, among other things, my beloved Rizal Theater. But with four new cinemas featuring “Dolby Digital” sound, plus Tower Records and a new coffee shop called Starbucks, it’s easy to forget that anything else had been there before.
As a cadet at the Philippine Military Academy in Baguio, my father would steal out some nights just to get an order of pancit canton at Star Café on Session Road. His drink was Royal Tru-Orange and dessert was Baby Ruth Chocolate.
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