Caught in the bottleneck that is Edsa in heavy rains during the evening rush hour? Don’t have a cardiac; make a detour instead to the nearest bar for a drink or two to allow traffic to thin out before hitting the road again.
Back in the late 1980s, we remember a restaurant named Crazy Daisy at the corner of Timog Avenue and Scout Tobias, Quezon City. It became a hangout of artists and musicians waiting for the live gigs to start at Red Rocks (later renamed Club Dredd) next door.
There was a time in the 1980s when going on a night-out could mean having cheap but ice-cold beer with friends in a hole-in-the-wall joint called Tib’s on Makati Avenue. Its nondescript ambiance would morph into the essence of cool when the likes of Miguel Faustmann and his cohorts at Repertory Philippines would drop in and chug their Pale Pilsens by the roadside, music blaring from the stage actor’s Volkswagen Brazilia.
