This Fashion Brand Opened a Café and Celebrities Can’t Get Enough
One afternoon, I was walking at Greenbelt and saw a new Harlan + Holden structure. But it wasn’t the usual clothing store like I expected, it was one of the…
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Restaurant Review
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The Restaurant to Remember Your Childhood Comforts and Classic Family Meals By
I know what you’re thinking: What’s so different about another restaurant serving up comfort food? Chef Vicky Pacheco of Flatiron 1771 knows it too. “In reality, everyone has their own…
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The Chinese Restaurant that Makes a New Case for Traditional Dining
Chinese cuisine has long been a part of Filipino dining. Just think about every other Chinese restaurant or delicacy shop in the different corners of the metro. Think about how…
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Hit Refresh on Your Filipino Cuisine Know-How with this New Resto
How do you take a commonplace dish such as chopsuey and make it exciting once more? How does the humble bangus become as decadent as a piece of prime steak?…
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A Delicious Reminder that Japan Isn’t All About Ramen and Tonkatsu
As I approached the building where Ogawa Traditional Japanese Restaurant is located along The Fort Strip, I saw that their windows were boarded up with thick wooden planks as if…
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The Softest Pulled Pork Isn’t Grilled—It’s Smoked
Having opened recently, Cue and Brew in BF Homes Parañaque is one of the first few restaurants in the Philippines that practice slow cooking in their kitchen. Like their name…
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How Is Japan’s Finest Tonkatsu Restaurant Faring in Manila?
For over half a century, Maisen has established itself as one of the best tonkatsu restaurants in Japan—no easy feat in a country populated with picky eaters who are spoiled…
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Is This Hot Brunch Spot Worth Waking Up For?
With an all-day breakfast menu, coffee served by Yardstick-trained baristas (roasting their in-house brand of beans), and a pretty memorable donut recipe as their ammo, the recently installed Frank &…
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Crepes Are Far More Satisfying When Done the Japanese Way
Given that so many Japanese brands are adorning local shores like The Great Wave off Kanagawa, you’d think that Filipinos would have already been tired of anything kawaii, Zen, and,…
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Where There’s Smoke, There’s Buzz
There’s been a lot of buzz about The Smoking Joint, an eatery on the Aguirre food strip in BF Homes. No surprise there because western BBQ, or smoked meat, is…
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