Mara Villavicencio: How a daughter is keeping Kamayan’s—and dad Vic Vic’s—legacy alive
In 1977, the idea of opening a Filipino restaurant that encouraged you to eat with your hands seemed like a crazy idea. Yet 42 years later, that restaurant
In 1977, the idea of opening a Filipino restaurant that encouraged you to eat with your hands seemed like a crazy idea. Yet 42 years later, that restaurant
In his years as a pioneering restaurateur, Vicvic Villavicencio made eating with our hands fun at Kamayan.
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Vic-Vic Villavicencio is out to start yet another dining trend–food-to-go from his chain of restaurants.
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.
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.
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.
Four times a year my high-school classmates and I get together to celebrate birthdays. I love these reunions. On a good day, there are about 35 of us, plus a few yayas, who gather at a restaurant, all dressed up and armed with our senior citizen cards.
If you didn’t know Vicvic Villavicencio, you would have missed him weaving in and out of the noontime crowd of his hugely popular Kamayan, Dads and Saisaki buffet restaurants. But instead of piling goodies on a plate, Villavicencio, a jolly fellow who arrives at his Glorietta, Makati branch together with four of his six children, will only check out the various food stations before settling down with nothing more than a glass of iced water.
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