Many of the successful chefs/restaurant owners we’ve met cut their culinary teeth at the kitchens of the defunct Mandarin Oriental Hotel Manila. Their reputations precede them. The coterie of the hotel’s foreign chefs must have trained them well.
Lamb sweetbreads with braised lamb with roast lamb at Bistro Manuel–perfection!
For decades The Maya Kitchen has been at the forefront of teaching cooking and baking. Even before the culinary arts became a fashionable career choice, Maya was already conducting cooking lessons in its old building in Mandaluyong. In fact many of the recognizable names in today’s culinary world were once students in Maya’s cooking school.
Call it relaxing food, childhood food or comfort food, there’s always a dish that will make us hum in satisfaction.
