Eating our way through Pampanga
I never eat half as well as when I’m visiting Pampanga. It’s my second time to do a food story in the region, yet my taste buds were still wowed with the myriad culinary delights Pampanga offered.
I never eat half as well as when I’m visiting Pampanga. It’s my second time to do a food story in the region, yet my taste buds were still wowed with the myriad culinary delights Pampanga offered.
Whoever said that the apple never falls far from the tree must be referring to Raphael Cruz, the 28-year-old son of the late great Larry J. Cruz.
On Nov. 29, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., the Maya Kitchen will present George Lizares, the corporate chef of the LJC Group, in a cooking demonstration called “A Christmas Dinner Larry Would Love.”
It’s easy to see why most people only know Larry J. Cruz for his restaurants. The LJC Restaurant Group, which he founded in 1980, is known for some of the most successful dining concepts in the country: Café Adriatico in Malate; Café Havana, originally in Malate, now at Greenbelt 3; Abé in Serendra; and Fely J’s Kitchen and Lorenzo’s Way, both at Greenbelt 5. Many of these restaurants are so popular that they have more than one branch, proof that the dining public rates these establishments highly.
I envied the custom-made bookshelf of hard wood and beveled glass but I wanted the books he had in that bookshelf even more.
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