Last October, the family went to try Twenty Two Jupiter! It was previously Cova
Love most especially the Bonsai trees inside which is part of the collection of one of the owners Super yum Chorizo nachos!!! The Hainanese Chicken was good too And super loved the Rum Cake with butter Dulce Gatas sauce! Last week, I went back and was happy to see two of the owners there, my brother, Jun Jun Lopez, and my friend, Vince Tanjutco. They are two out of the twelve owners of the place. They found out Cova was for sale so they bought it 🙂
“We are a Bistro Bar. We serve good, affordable food so people can come here for lunch and dinner. Then at around 9:30pm, we dim the lights and become a bar with live entertainment. But it’s a bar with good food! The atmosphere is very relaxed, very cozy and friendly. It’s mostly friends of friends here. And we talk to everyone who comes in so everybody becomes our friend. It’s the kind of place that you can go to even if you’re alone.”
Together with them was the Executive Chef, Marco Legasto. Chef Marco studied in the UK for 2 years in the Isle of Man and then worked at the Ocean Castle Hotel for two years and then came back to Manila. In 2005, he was the one who pioneered the Spiral restaurant and was the head of all the Expats during the transition of Westin Sofitel. He put up Purple Feet and ran it from 2007 to 2012. After which he put up his own restaurant called Prime 101 which specialises in steaks!
“The space is known as a bar but we’re introducing it as also a bistro. Guests are actually surprised because there are very few bars that actually have good food, they’re normally just used to bar chow. We serve International food, we have dishes from all over the world. We do traditional and we also do our own flavors. It’s getting certain flavors from different places or from experiences that I had and putting them in the dishes.”
Though this is known as a bar, they are now a Bistro bar and serve lunch and dinner!
Vincent tells me the steaks are really good!! We need to go back to try them!!!
I am repeating this menu page with the main course because it has the desserts menu here and you must try the desserts 🙂 [email_link]