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Foodie Hubs @ SM Center Pasig
March 15th, 2015 — Affairs, Appetizer, Bar/Grills, Beverage, Casual, Chinese, Coffee Shops, Cravings, Cuisine, Dessert, European, Filipino, French, Fusion, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mexican, New Brews, Pasig, Pizza / Pasta, Promos / Events, Quick Service, Restaurants, Steakhouse, Western, Where To Eat
Gaucho Tops My Magnolia Residences City Food Picks
June 9th, 2014 — Affairs, Appetizer, Beverage, Cravings, Cuisine, Dessert, European, French, Fusion, Japanese, Mexican, New Brews, Promos / Events, Thai, Western
The Magnolia Residences City Food Picks is a foodie tour at the nearby Robinsons Magnolia Mall that highlights urban comforts amidst a variety of food picks and shops.
Top 10 Restaurants From My Mega Food Tour
May 23rd, 2014 — Affairs, Appetizer, Bar/Grills, Beverage, Buffet, Casual, Chinese, Cravings, Cuisine, Dessert, European, Filipino, Fine Dining, French, Fusion, Japanese, Korean, Mexican, New Brews, Ortigas, Pizza / Pasta, Promos / Events, Quick Service, Restaurants, Sinaporean, SM Megamall, Spanish, Steakhouse, Sweet Shops, Western, Where To Eat
16 restaurants, 4 hours, 1 stomach. That in a summary, is how you would describe in numbers the SM Megamall “Mega Food Tour” held the other night at the new wing called Mega Fashion Hall. It almost broke my 18-restaurant- food-tour record back in 2009. 🙂
Todd English Food Hall Manila Opens Today!
March 25th, 2014 — Bar/Grills, Casual, Chinese, Cravings, Cuisine, Dessert, European, Filipino, Fusion, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malaysian, Mexican, New Brews, Pizza / Pasta, Restaurants, Sinaporean, SM Aura Premier, Steakhouse, Sweet Shops, Taguig, Vietnamese, Western, Where To Eat
Todd English Food Hall, a 900-square-meter specialty culinary hall that offers a mix of fresh and prepared international gourmet food, opens in Manila today. Continue reading →
Photo Chips: Chili’s SM Megamall
January 19th, 2014 — Bar/Grills, Casual, Cravings, Cuisine, Dessert, Fusion, Mandaluyong, Mexican, New Brews, Restaurants, SM Megamall, Sweet Shops, Western, Where To Eat
NomNom Club recently visited Chili’s at The Atrium of SM Megamall in Mandaluyong City for the first time.
Here’s a short photoblog, aka ‘photo-chips‘, of what we had in the filling dinner a few days ago.
Chili’s SM Megamall
- Triple Dipper (P495) – a combo of three well-loved appetizers in Chili’s: Chicken Cripsers, Wings Over Buffalo, and Southwestern Eggrolls. The latter is a crispy flour tortilla filled with smoked chicken, black beans, corn, jalapeno jack cheese, red peppers and spinach. Triple Dipper also comes with avocado ranch dressing, among other sauces.
- Bottomless Tostada Chips with Skillet Queso (P390) – never tire with your unlimited crispy tostada chips with flavorful house-made salsa and skillet queso which is a combination of chesse dip and soft beef.
- Classic Nachos (P435) – It certainly looks like pizza, but they are nachos! These nachos has melted cheese on top, jalapenos, and beans served with house-made pico de gallo and sour cream. You have the option to add grilled beef for (P195), grilled chicken for (P95), and guacamole for (P55).
- High and Mighty Pie (P380) – Definitely a dessert to share (although I can finish this all by myself)! 🙂  It’s indeed high for a pie and mighty for a cake! It has Heath candy pieces in rich vanilla ice cream piled high on a crushed Oreo cookie crust and drizzled with caramel and hot fudge.
Lastly, we had the Big Mouth Burger Bites. We also had smoothies which are as good as desserts by the name of  Fresh Strawberry (P195) and Molten Chocolate (P195).
The former is a generous serving of vanilla ice cream blended with chunks of strawberries at the bottom. The latter is special chocolate coating blended with vanilla ice cream and milk. It’s creamier than the first.
Chili’s chilisphilippines.com 2F Greenbelt 5, Ayala Makati (729.3022) Northeast Greenhills, San Juan (727.2959) Tomas Morato corner Scout Fernandez, QC (372.5017) Power Plant Rockwell, Makati City (659.65627) SM Megamall (631.0380) Twitter/Instagram:Â @Chilis_PH
We used to go to Chili’s in Greenhills and the one at the Timog / Tomas Morato Area. Chili’s SM Megamall is surely a welcome addition to their list of branches which is more accessible.
An Awesome Secret Foodies Tour @ Tuscany
November 30th, 2013 — Affairs, Appetizer, Bar/Grills, Beverage, Casual, Cravings, Cuisine, Dessert, European, Filipino, French, Fusion, Greek, McKinley Hill, Mexican, New Brews, Pizza / Pasta, Promos / Events, Quick Service, Restaurants, Spanish, Steakhouse, Sweet Shops, Taguig, Tuscany, Western, Where To Eat
There are four numbers to remember from this ‘Awesome Secret Foodies Tour‘ – they are 8, 20, 3, & 1000. The numerals represent 8 restaurants, a 20-course degustation, 3 Hours, and 1000 pesos.
The Tuscany Food Tour at McKinley Hill in Fort Bonifacio presents a 20-course degustation spread among 8 restaurants that intends to continually fill your tummies for 3 hours. All these for a measly P1,000 from you pocket. Moreover, 2 of the metro’s iconic foodies – RJ Ledesma and Anton Diaz of Our Awesome Planet – will join the group of 30 to make the experience more engaging.
Participating Restaurants in the Food Tour:
- Sauceria
- Planet Grapes
- L.E.S. Bagels
- Main Street
- Sophie’s Mom
- B&T Mexican Kitchen
- Marciano’s
- Trattoria Poggio Antico
Not to keep you wanting for too long, let’s take a peek on what the 8 restos  have to offer:
Planet Grapes
Wine pairing at Planet Grapes plus choice of one red wine and one white wine:
Trattoria Poggio Antico
B&T Mexican Chicken
L.E.S. Bagels
Marciano’s
Sauceria
Main Street
Sophie’s Mom
The place is dainty and cute fit for the little princess. However,  I’m not sure if the Red Velvet shown below will be offered because the tour menu only indicated Oreo Cheesecake Cookies and Flourless Chocolate Cupcakes (fyi). Any which way, you could always order it independently. 🙂
The “An Awesome Secret Foodies Tour” is presented by Megaworld Lifestyle Malls for you to discover Tuscany’s best kept secrets starting today (November 30) and for the next three more Saturdays (December 7, 14 and 21) from 2pm to 5pm.
The experience will enable you to taste a little bit of everything and get a feel of the place before splurging out on an entire meal. Only a limited set of 30 tickets will be available per date tour so hurry up and get your tickets at designated booths near the Tuscany Grand Villas Gate from 11:00am to 6:00pm (between Ukkokei Ramen Ron and Marciano’s).
For more information, you may call 709-0888, 709-9888 or 0917-838-0111.
Food Tour Tip: Eat slowly and enjoy the company as much as you would the food. Each participant will be given a tour kit including the tour ticket, tour pin, degustation menu and the McKinley Hill Gourmet Guide.
NomNom Top Picks are:
- Main Strreet’s Organic Maple and Candied Bacon Artisan Ice Cream
- Sauceria’s Tuna Tataki
- Sauceria’s Feta Cilantro Tomato Cocas
- Marciano’s West Side Four Season Pizza
- L.E.S. Bagels with black sesame seed (I forgot the name; it was long 🙂
- B&T Mexican Kitchen’s “Rice” drink
- Planet Grapes’ Torrontes wine.
Join this mouthwatering degustation at Tuscany in McKinley Hill with your friends and family and I’m sure you will enjoy it as much as we did during the media tour. This Tuscany Food Tour is a secret no more, but remains awesome for the next 4 Saturdays.
Photo Blog: UP Town Center in QC
November 21st, 2013 — Appetizer, Bar/Grills, Beverage, Casual, Chinese, Coffee Shops, Cravings, Cuisine, Dessert, DIliman, European, Filipino, Fine Dining, Fusion, Greek, Hotels, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mexican, New Brews, Pizza / Pasta, Quezon City, Quick Service, Restaurants, Sinaporean, Spanish, Sweet Shops, UP Town Center, Where To Eat
Tagged as “where great minds come together to shop and dine,” the Ayala group has created a new lifestyle hub in Quezon City called UP Town Center.
Located in between UP Diliman campus and Ateneo De Manila University, the UP Town Center is patterned after the tradition of great university town centers around the world. The 7.4 hectare UP Diliman East Campus property along Katipunan Avenue in QC has been transformed into a “mixed-use retail and office development“.
Premium retailers, services, and restaurants will serve the needs and demands of office tenants, students, workers and surrounding residential communities surrounding the area.
What makes it unique from the usual retail developments is its bias of support for industry-academe collaboration such as on-the-job training and incubation of start-up businesses. Its operating hours is from Sunday – Thursday 10 AM to 9 PM; Friday & Saturday 10 AM to 10 PM.
Here are some establishments that are currently operating at the UP Town Center:
- Ba Noi’s
- Cafe Shibuya
- Family Mart
- Ginza Bairin
- Highlands Coffee
- IHOP Philippines
- J Co Donuts & Coffee
- Kos Greek Ouzeri
- Lucca Bakery
- Red Onion Cafe
- Ryu Ramen & Curry
- Salu-Salo
- Shrimp Bucket
- Steveston Pizza
- Tea Rock
- Tokyo Tonteki
- Torch
- Vanilla Cupcakes
Not in Photo:
- Boon Tong Kee Philippines
- 8 Cuts Burger Blends
- Dulcelin Gourmet
- Casa Verde
- Pinac
- The Primary Kitchen Bar
Soon to Open:
- Aeropostale
UP Town Center
1101 Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines
uptowncenter.info@gmail.com
http://www.ayalamalls.com.ph/
I was able to dine at Ginza Bairin. Watch out for its feature here in NomNom Club soon! Enjoy special treats at the UP Town Center when you present your student ID until November 30, 2013!
Kinilaw in a Chinese Restaurant: Only in RK Garden
April 29th, 2013 — Affairs, Casual, Chinese, Cravings, Cuisine, Filipino, Fusion, Jupiter St, Makati, Mexican, New Brews, Nomnom Loves, Restaurants, Spanish, Where To Eat
If you think that Jupiter street in Makati is already packed and has almost all kinds of restaurants from the mainstream food industry, think again. A Chinese restaurant called RK Garden along Jupiter corner Antares streets has just opened a few months ago.
Brief History
Originally from Tagum in Davao, the owners saw the restaurant’s potential in the busy streets of the metro so they brought it here in Manila. Although I initially felt that the brand name is quite off for a Chinese restaurant, I cannot argue with its historical roots. R stands for one of the owner’s name “Rose“. “Garden” was added by way of habit care of the Davao customers, and moving to Manila somehow persisted the “Restaurant” part.
What Makes Them Unique
What makes RK Garden Restaurant unique are their “kinilaw” dishes. Yes you read that right – kinilaw. I cannot overemphasize the presence of kinilaw in a Chinese restaurant. And specially for a tsinoy like me who is used to Chinese cuisine, it somehow violated my 34-year notion of what dishes should be found in a Chinese restaurant. 🙂
Nonetheless, the presence of kinilaw in this Chinese restaurant has a good explanation Kinilaw is Rose‘s specialty back in Davao and what they are known for all around town. They are so famous for it that it is also the reason why I will be visiting RK Garden Restaurant again very soon.
Kinilaw Dishes to Order
Having mentioned all that above, I was only able to try two kinilaw dishes; of which I was extremely satisfied. And this is coming from a non-fan of kinilaw, to say the least.
For the uninitiated, knilaw ingredients are usually composed of ginger, onion, lemon/kalamansi juice, and red/green chili, marinated in vinegar and seasoned with salt. Most of the time, kinilaw is served as an appetizer in the Philippines but in this case, the serving is big enough to be one of the main dish.
Kinilaw Malasugi
We had Kinilaw Malasugi (Swordfish Ceviche)Â /Marlin / Blue Marlin that night. I think what did the trick was the right mix of vinegar and spices; and of course, the fish should be fresh and of good quality to start with.
A small serving of Kinilaw Malasugi costs PÂ 198 ; the large one is P 396. Not too expensive, but definitely not cheap. Nonetheless, it’s worth the price.
Kinilaw Suahe (Top Photo)
They saved the best one for last. I thought Kinilaw Malasugi was already a surprise but  Kinilaw Suahe was even better. If you love shrimps or suahe and kinilaw, this one is truly worth the visit even if you’re from far-off Quezon City like me (former Makati resident).
The price tag of this dish is not indicated because of seasonality, but you can estimate it at about P200/100 grams on a good season.
Other Chinese Dishes
Here are the other ‘Chinese’ dishes (not yet posted above) you would usually expect from a Chinese restaurant. They are good orders as well, specially the crabs although they are expectedly quite expensive.
On a last note (for the owners), the interiors of the restaurant, which unfortunately I forgot to take photos of, has a lot of room for improvement. But we’re letting that pass since their kinilaw is superb! 😛
RK Garden Restaurant
Jupiter corner Antares Streets, Makati City, Philippines
(02) 519 9434Â Operations 10:00 am – 10:00 pm
http://www.facebook.com/pages/RK-Garden-Chinese-Seafood-Restaurant/580510921961852