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August 28, 2014

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Rustan’s Home and Entertaining Month

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Congratulations to a great sister team who are both my Ninangs 🙂 Ninay Nedy and Ninay Len who are responsible for the beautiful renovation of the home department in Rustan’s Makati. Come visit the new department and see many beautiful things in store

and of course the Home department managers – Adora Ababa, Khukie Miller and Cecile Hermoso. I used to work with Adora and with Cecile who left for awhile and now is back!

There is an ongoing Home and Entertaining Month promotion till the 15th of September with special displays by people who love to entertain. See what they came up with by putting together the merchandise from the store. People nowadays love to entertain and come up with beautiful and unique set ups. It’s nice to see because it reflects on their personality and gives them a chance to express themselves through their work. Heart2Heart appreciates them

Love this corner with the corals and orange and black theme

White theme by the Rustan’s Visual team

Mia Borromeo

Blue and white!! LOVE! This is on the 5th floor and done by the Rustan’s visual team

Love the blue and white beach theme by the Rustan’s Visual team

August 28, 2014

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La Creperie Now in Makati

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On the other side of the building, V Corporate Center, there’s La Creperie. We transferred from Wild Flour to here to have desert.

My friend, PK Chuatico, is right! This area is becoming like Chelsea with all the quaint restaurants opening around the village

I always like the interiors of La Creperie and not one is the same! Each branch has its own look 🙂

Bambee suggested this – Lemon, butter and sugar crepe! YUM!!! So light and so yummy!!! The three of us shared this 🙂

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August 27, 2014

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Wildflour at Salcedo Village

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The girls were planning a get together so we thought of the new Wildflour branch in Salcedo Village

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I spotted this area in the corner, LOVE IT! 🙂

It’s like a private room but it’s actually in front of the kitchen so you will see everyone busy serving orders

And here we are 🙂 Half of the Gumamelas having a prelude to our bigger reunion 🙂 I miss our high school days!! We were inseparable back then, and nowadays we hardly see each other!! That must change!! 🙂 Enjoyed catching up with them – Maritoni Rufino Tordesillas, Bambee Bartolome Tambunting and Laura Lim Rodrigo

Chips and Dip

Arugula Salad YUM!

Tuna Melt Sandwich

Crispy potatoes

Pulled Pork Burger Super Yum! We had it cut into three already so this is not the actual presentation

It comes with this

125 Leviste street, Salecdo Village, Makati Tel # 808 7072

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August 27, 2014

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Sansrival by Mika

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I saw this mocha sans rival from my friend, Julia! I am always on the lookout for new finds to try 🙂 and different variations of food. I purposely took this angle because the corner slice are the best!…. it has the most icing 🙂 Heart2Heart loves mocha anything – Frappuccino, mocha cake, mocha ice cream, mocha mocha mocha 🙂

It comes of course in regular butter flavour. Please call Mika Licuanan ( 0917) 852 3232

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August 27, 2014

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Le Donne

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So happy to see Marion Salonga, a fellow Assumptionista and cousin of my good friend, Lilli Ann. A very busy and hard working woman ( and still single 🙂 ). She did not want me to take her photo so I just grabbed a photo of her from instagram together with Toni Gonzaga.

Marion works for her family business, Le Donne. Le Donne is a 40 year old store which started out as a shoe store and now they have bags as well. And if you are familiar with the stores- Milani, Ohrelle and Mondi, these are all stores selling shoes and bags but are stores owned by Marion’s cousins. I am trying to imagine how competitive it is for the cousins to be in the same type of business and competing against each other, yet it’s amazing how close they are to each other. Le Donne has 20 locations now and still growing. Marion is very hands on in the business and makes sure that production and quality of the products are to their standards. Aside from Le Donne, Marion is also Vice President of Meridian Securities Inc which is a stock brokerage firm of her family as well. More power to you Marion 🙂

They got Toni Gonzaga as their endorser for the brand 🙂

An interesting brand of shoes where the heels of the shoes are embellished 🙂

Click below to go to their website for more information

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August 26, 2014

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Dinner with Gilbert and Nikki

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We were so happy to be with Gilbert and Nikki in their lovely home 🙂 Here are the boys in the kitchen

Apparently Gilbert likes to cook!!! Heart2Heart loves it!!

That night he made sangria for us. I hope we can taste more of his cooking 🙂 Hint hint Gilbert 🙂

My favourite part of the house!! Gibert’s shelves of books!! This is just one side. Right across it is another shelf full with the same amount of books as this. This does not count the other books he has in his mom’s house and the cookbooks he has in his kitchen. Since high school, Gilbert loved reading books and he now has thousand of books in his collection. He has read some of then over and over again.

He told me that he sleeps very early and wakes up at around 2 am to read books and then he goes back to sleep again. And he does not read just one book, he reads three. He switches among the three books so he doesn’t get bored. No wonder he is so smart!!

We had a nice dinner, not in the main dining but in another part of the house which has this beautiful Asian backdrop! LOVE!!

I am so lucky my seat mate was Gilbert!! Enjoyed chatting with him and I was taking a lot of notes on restaurant recommendations here and in London. I love how passionate he is when he talks about restaurants and what’s good in each of them 🙂 i need more time to pick his brain!! 🙂

Of course beautiful Nikki was there together with the ever lovely Vicky Pimentel of Cucina Victoria and an ex- Rustan’s manager/designer. I love this lady a lot. We used to work together before and no matter what, she was always very professional and she did her job well. She was the mommy of the younger managers in the office

Rina and Joanne 🙂

Manolet, Kirk, James and Suharto

They served us a nice Spanish dinner. Thank you Gilbert and Nikki

This came when we were already finished eating and I wish Gilbert brought it out earlier!! His own homemade dish, Sinantolan. Gilbert told me that his friend’s mom used to cook this and he liked it but when they moved out of the country he had to learn how to make it himself and he got it in two trys 🙂 YUMMY!

The new member of their family, Brando. Gilbert got him for Nikki to protect her, but look how sweet and harmless he is!!! So cute!! 🙂 but gigantic 🙂