Get-togethers for grown-ups
Sofitel’s Le Bar offers afternoon tea and intimate wine parties.
Sofitel’s Le Bar offers afternoon tea and intimate wine parties.
For Mother’s Day, the Sofitel Philippine Plaza Manila asked popular cooks and chefs to share family recipes, which were then interpreted by the kitchen staff at Spiral, the hotel’s all-day dining restaurant.
My family developed a tradition of drinking wines especially on New Year’s Eve, though no one can trace when it started. It’s expected that reds and whites are sufficiently chilled and taken with finger food that lasts through the last burst of fireworks.
Spiral, a concept restaurant with 452 indoor and outdoor seating capacity, aims to “bring the authenticity and warmth of the traditional French markets and Asian hawker stalls into a five-star hotel setting.” The dishes are prepared by 60-80 chefs. The result is an astonishing mix of world cuisines a diner would run out of breath just to navigate.
It’s hard to get a table if you’re a walk-in customer at 12 Monkeys, the hot new club on the fifth floor of Century City Mall in Makati. Even on weekdays the place is packed with fans of some of the best contemporary music artists who play there nightly.
Fans of the Blue Rats, formerly a regular live act at Martinis Bar in Mandarin Oriental Manila, are glad to know that their favorite blues band now plays every Wednesday at Strumm’s (110 Jupiter Street, Bel-Air, Makati; tel. 8954636).
Sofitel Philippine Plaza Manila reopens its grand ballroom this September.
It was a Tour de France but the bicycles roaming about were not in competitive mode because the riders were merely showing off the products offered. And the route was only within Sofitel’s Spiral.
Few things can make me get up early on a Sunday morning. Spiral’s champagne brunch is one of them.
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