Category Archives: Foodie

December 2, 2013
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Rambla

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I was looking at all my delayed Spain posts and suddenly had a craving for Spanish food!!! It’s a good thing Rambla opened in Rockwell!!!  

Opened by the same owners as Las Flores.  Uri Singla was there 🙂  Rambla is Catalan food.  I have never been to that area so I am so happy to have been able to try their cuisine!

Previous entry:  Las Flores April 16, 2013

 Chef Pepe who is their corporate chef 

Pretty servers 🙂 

Loved my Naughty Banana Smoothie ( even though I am not naughty! 🙂 ) 

We ordered almost everything on the menu!  We wanted to try all!! 🙂  Good thing we were a lot 🙂  Everything was good!!  No need to go all the way to Spain to have good Spanish food when you can have it here!

Super yum croquettes!!  Please have some more croquettes with different fillings!  

Uri personally took care of us!  We got the BEST service 🙂

Spherical Olives

Yum!!! My Dad was telling Uri to have a degustation meal!  I hope they will offer this in the future.  Chef Pepe is very talented!

Crispy Catalan Flat bread – Butifara and the next one was Goat cheese!  VERY GOOD!!

Egg dishes were also excellent!  Amazing how a simple egg is now being cooked in many ways!  

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WOW! Burrata!!  A MUST!

We almost tried everything on the meat menu except the cannelloni

Wow! 🙂 Once in awhile hopefully is not bad!

Uri told us that we need to try this since this is the Chef’s specialty!  It was amazing.  Under those prawns is the chicken and seafood coulant!  AMAZING!  First time for me to try a dish like this

YUM!!!!!

I can’t stop saying yum!  Everything was really good.  PORK PORK PORK! 🙂  A very well made crispy suckling pig!  YUM!

Seafood dishes which were all very popular.  We were 9 in the table and we shared all the dishes

We had three out of the four 🙂  YUM! 

Churros 🙂

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December 1, 2013
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Victor Montes

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We had one night of tapas the night we arrived in Bilbao.  We went to a place which Binky recommended- Victor Montes

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Love the place and we are happy there is seating
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We asked our waiter if he was Victor Montes because it said so in his uniform 🙂
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I love looking at the tapas!
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We love Sangria! It’s the only alcoholic drink we know 🙂

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Our orders 🙂  Don’t ask me the names!  We just choose and see what we like on the bar 🙂
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Binky recommended we get the steak! YUMMY!! And do not forget to have the Chuleton  with roquefort cheese sauce on the side for those who like cheese
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Click below to go to their website

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November 29, 2013
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Ibanez de Bilbao Asador

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We were craving for chuletitas!  We were in Spain for 5 days already and have not had some chuletitas so we asked Jose to look for a restaurant that served it.  And he found one!  A very nice one at that 🙂

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Each plate was different 🙂
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They gave us complimentary jamon and a plate each of bread with like salad
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The highlight of the menu for us 🙂
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Cordero lechal asado which we did not order, but we should have after seeing it come out of the brick oven!
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CHULETITAS!!!!! YUM YUM SUPER YUM!  That looks a lot but because it’s baby lamb chops, it’s actually a good portion.  The cochinillo asado was so good too!!!  WE LOVE THIS PLACE!
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They even have a degustation menu! 
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Click below to go to their website

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November 29, 2013
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Cook Out to Help Out

By | Foodie, Giving Back | No Comments

Thank you Elbert Cuenca for spearheading this worthy cause!!!  

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Thank you Powerplant Mall and Malou Pineda for providing the venue!  

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We went this morning to have breakfast in Rockwell and immediately right after we went to buy our burgers and support!!! Hurry and come on over til Dec 1, Sunday!!  

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Volunteers coming early to help and support!! JJ Yulo, Kat Holigores, Kat Limcaoco Alcuaz and Alicia Sy

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Get your burgers from the pretty ladies 🙂

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 20,000 patties will be grilled here!

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Elbert Cuenca and Alex Lichaytoo who donated the 20,000 burger patties! Thank you!!

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Guest chefs will be coming to volunteer and grill – watch out for the rockstars! I missed Gaita Fores but saw on her instagram she was there! She’s everywhere helping victims of Yolanda and now she’s in Rockwell!!  Amazing woman! 

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 There’s also a special Porcini mushroom burger if you can catch some being offered

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Thank you French Baker for the 20,000 burger buns!!!

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French fries!!! YUMMY!  For P 200.00 you get a burger, french fries and a drink!

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Assorted drinks you can choose from – Sola iced tea, Gatorade and Coconut water!

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So happy to be here 🙂

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Our table 🙂

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There is also a soft serve ice cream machine which Elbert is manning!!  Yummy soft serve, just donate any amount!! My friends Lills and Jeanne like taking photos with Elbert! 🙂

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Someone donated cookies so Elbert gave us some 🙂

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Wow this couple hoarded plenty!!! TY for buying so much!!!  Everyone treat your staff to the burgers and help REBUILD homes for Yolanda victims!

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November 26, 2013
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El Kanno Getaria

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From San Sebastian, we drove around 30 minutes to get to Getaria on the way to our next destination Bilbao.  There was a restaurant Jose wanted us to try called El Kanno  

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The outdoor grill
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We were happy that the father-son owners were there to personally attend to us!
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They took us to the basement which was past their kitchen
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Where they have their fresh seafoods!!!
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There were like 5 staff peeling the fresh crabs
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The menu
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Rodaballo Parnillo – we got a big one and this was good for all of us.  He showed it to us first before grilling
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Amuse Bouche which was so good!!! It was like a spicy tuna and very very fresh
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We asked for more!!! 🙂 
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I love their water bottles, I tried to bring back some
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Super delicious!!!
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And here it is!! Grilled and cooked!!  So good!! It was worth the stopover!
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 When we thought we were done, they removed the bones and then grouped it into parts and there was so much left!

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 Sole

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 We have a good appetite for desserts 🙂
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The best arroz con leche ever!!!
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 Helado con infusion de Fresa
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 Laminas de crujientes de hojaldre con crema de Vainillia y helado de cafe
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 Torrijas caramelizadas con aire lacteo, helado de yemas y Vainilla de bourbon
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Click below to go to their website

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November 25, 2013
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Bellychon

By | Foodie, Pork, Proud to be Pinoy! | One Comment

Lechon! Bagnet! Pork! Porchetta! is the in thing now!! It’s everywhere in all forms! 🙂  A little bird whispered to me that there is this place in Greenbelt that has really good porchetta!  So I asked James to accompany me to try it out!  It is in Greenbelt 1 beside Mercury Drug and Binalot.  It has street front location. A simple no frills place but decent and clean  

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From outside the window, you can see them cutting up the porchetta
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You can dine in and order a meal or you can order the porchetta by the kilo
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That whole piece will be around 4 to 6 kilos – so it will cost maybe P 2,500 to P 3,000 for that whole roll without bones!  So you can buy that roll and have it for your dinner or party.  And it’s Cebu lechon that is so tasty and yummy!  Unlike other places I hear they have many kinds of fillings and flavors – this one has only regular and spicy
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This is the dine in menu.  We wanted to try the sisig but they did not have it 
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The Bellychon meal comes with a soup which tasted like sinigang – sarap 🙂
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We wanted to try it first so we ordered the Bellychon meal for P 120.00. WOW! SARAP!
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 So happy to see Chichi and Noel there too.  Apparently this is his secret hideaway too 🙂

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We were watching them order and they really knew what part to ask for so look at their meal! SKIN SKIN YUMMY SKIN 🙂
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November 25, 2013
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nawwTy’s Kitchen

By | Christmas, Foodie | 2 Comments

I love instagram because I am in touch and up to date on what my friends are up to even if I do not see them often!  Featuring here one of my “nawwty” 🙂  friends, Trish, who I follow in instagram.  My gosh, she has 54,000 followers!

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How can someone so sexy and skinny post yummy food photos like this???  She has other nice photos but was surprised to see food photos of actual dishes that she makes herself!!!  

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Finally due to insistent public demand 🙂  she now has a food business!!!

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Aside from her new food business, she still has her stationary business

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Click below to go to her website

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