Snuggling between fresh Egyptian cotton bed linens and goosedown duvets in a springy bed is an extravagance by today’s standards. While many upscale accommodations provide the standard linens with 200 thread count, this boutique hotel in Quezon City ups the ante with its 400-thread count linens, pillows whose supportive core is surrounded by soft down, and a mattress with pocket springs that follow the contours of the body. Likewise, the bed’s antibacterial memory foam wards off dust mites that breed allergies.
A giant tree lit up the sky Friday night, adding to the glitter that Filipinos have come to associate with the Christmas season.
When I first saw our Panay Avenue lot, it was a tangle of talahib and sunflowers. My boyfriend, who eventually became my mister, brought me there to see whether I liked it. I nearly cried. Panay was then a narrow, stony, unpaved street. But it had the promise of the “Ave.” appended to it, and I clung to that.
On three separate occasions last week we had a swell time checking out the nightlife in Quezon City’s Tomas Morato-Timog Avenue strip and its vicinity.
Chic-Boy, the popular roast chicken and pork restaurant chain, is the last place one would expect to feature live music. But for the past few years, its Timog Avenue branch in Quezon City has been enjoying full-house crowds—who not only feast on lechon manok and liempo, but also watch its star performer, Cathy Go.
You would not imagine that inside the car exchange dealership compound Auto Camp (Ortigas Avenue Extension, Pasig, across The Medical City) is a bar and grill joint called Ang Pulo.
Are CCTVS giving us a false sense of security? I ask this in light of a recent incident I witnessed involving my friend Jude Mancuyas while we were dining in Quezon City’s restaurant row.
On any given Saturday, the Amoranto Sports Complex on Roces Avenue, Quezon City, is a hive of activity—with weekend sports enthusiasts and fitness buffs huffing and puffing at its basketball courts, badminton courts, swimming pool, boxing and multipurpose gyms. But Amoranto—which boasts of a velodrome and a 15,000-seat stadium—isn’t just for sports, it’s also a venue for the arts.
Fifteen artists who are members of the Estillo Art Group are currently exhibiting their works at Erehwon Center for the Arts in Quezon City. Joining them is Filipino-Australian guest artist Benild Abigan, whose exhibited acrylic/charcoal “Memoir of Malee…the Ancient Remedy” depicts his psychic sensitivity that shows in his other works.
My grandson, who loves to eat and cook, wanted to go to SidCor in Centris, Quezon City, last Sunday. It’s usually only my cook who goes to that weekend market for organic vegetables and green pinipig plus uninteresting other stuff. But I hadn’t been to that tiangge for years, since it was still at Lung Center, in fact. So, we decided to go—cook, Franco and I.
