After receiving the award as Asia’s Best Female Chef for 2016 at the recent Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants ceremony in Bangkok, Margarita “Gaita” Forés headed to Milan, Italy, to promote Filipino food.
Distileria Limtuaco, maker of Manille Liqueur de Calamansi, recently launched its second liqueur variant, derived this time from Philippine orange (dalandan). The launch was held at Grace Park, Margarita Fores’
Call it relaxing food, childhood food or comfort food, there’s always a dish that will make us hum in satisfaction.
Some of our town’s most prominent celebrities passed all their other invites so they could make it to the recent birthday bash of their dear friend, low-profile construction magnate Alice Eduardo.
Yang chow fried rice is supposed to be an example of Huaiyang cooking, the cuisine of a region in China. But the food we were served that noon at Shang Palace of Makati Shangri-La Manila was not typical. The appetizers were already surprising.
In 1986, Margarita “Gaita” Fores packed her bags and flew to Italy for a crash course on Italian cooking. In a span of six months, she moved from Florence, Milan and Rome, soaking up as much as she could in Italian culture as well as learning about local markets, local ingredients and the home-style cuisine of three signoras.
Grace Park at One Rockwell is the much-anticipated restaurant in the portfolio of lifestyle maven Margarita Forés. The concept is a tribute to the Sunday reunions in the Caloocan home of her paternal grandmother, Angie Geronimo Forés.
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