Three at Steak: Fireplace, I Am Angus and 22 Prime

Fireplace Steak

Majority of Filipinos are still meat eaters. We love a good and flavorful steak. And those looking for a more exquisite kind of meat would be glad to know that Manila isn’t short of restaurants serving high grade steaks. We only have to choose the dining experience to match with that sumptuous food. Here we steaked-out three restaurants offering some of the best tasting steaks in Manila.

Remembering Sichuan and more in Singapore Food Street

China Town Singapore

Chinese cuisine has always been one of my favorites. I remember Mapo Tofu being one of my favorite Chinese dishes on a local restaurant. When I went to Chengdu China and ate at Chen’s Mapo Tofu where the dish actually originated, I realized that the Mapo Tofu here is worlds apart from the original taste. Since then I haven’t tasted anything close to it or any of the Sichuan dishes I tried there. That is until I went back to Singapore’s China Town Food Street and found some restaurants that offer something close to what I remembered.

An All-Potato Thanksgiving at M Cafe

USPB Thanksgiving Dinner Porcini and Truffle Gnocchi

Ask a typical Pinoy what food he/she associates with potato and chances are, it would be (a) French fries, or (b) mashed potato. Can’t blame us Filipinos for thinking that way as we are rice and not potato eaters. So when the invitation to share thanksgiving dinner with the people of the U.S. Potato Board and U.S. Department of Agriculture at M Café in Makati, came up, we wondered how an all-potato full course would taste like. How could anyone, even a chef the caliber of Sau del Rosario, can get away with an all-potato course was a question on everyone’s mind.

Taal Bistro: a hearty lunch in a heritage town

Taal Bistro Tawilis

We came to Taal Town in Batangas to revisit this heritage town and bring home some captures. But like in previous out-of-town trips, we had a hidden agenda: to eat something out of the ordinary. We prepared for the shoot but we weren’t able to research well in advance where it’s good to eat. Good thing the kind lady seller we brought some panucha from at the Basilica de San Martin de Tours went out of her way to show us Bistro Taal. It was just 5 or so minutes away from the Basilica and while it’s not really a bistro in the real sense of the word, we thought we had a hearty lunch alright.

Great food needs No Signboard

No Signboard Chili Crab (Sri Lanka Crab) I know foodies friends in Singapore who has been living there for years and they were just happy enough to show me around their favorite places to eat. Say Singapore, we can heavily expect a chili crabs and prawns in the mix. We trooped to the back of esplanade and entered a restaurant facing the bay for me to discover that a really good restaurant really needs No Signboard to say how good their seafood is.

Lunch with the Hardys: Fine dine with fine wine

Hardys Trio Reflection

Call us very casual drinkers for we Happyfoodies really eat more than drink. However, an invitation to sample some of the best Australian wines one fine weekday came as a proposition too good to pass up. The wines we’re tasting are made by Hardys, the most popular brand from Down Under. With Oakwood Ortigas as host, we knew the pairings with Oakwood lunch fare would be worth the trip.

The occasion, a rather intimate small group lunch, introduces the Hardys’ new Heritage Reserve Bin – Riesling, Chardonnay, Shiraz and Cabernet Sauvignon — continuing the company’s tradition of blending grapes from different regions to come up with complex wines. Distinguishing itself from vintners that make wines from single plots or regions, the Hardys have carved a name for taking grapes from different places and maturing them to come up with complex blends.

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