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I had lunch today at Tivoli 

Heart2Heart is so honored to have tried the amazing talent of Chef Richard Toix today

It’s so timely because now that it is art month, Chef Richard to me is a chef and an artist.  You will see this in his presentation and he is just truly talented.  This is his most recent photo taken today 🙂  compared to the photo in the marketing collaterals.  He told us that he had stopped smoking which made him gain a few kilos.  I think food is still a better vice than smoking 🙂  

 So happy to see Charisse Chuidian and Peter Pysk, Director for Food and Beverages

Our Maitre D’ – Nel 

We were served the Degustation.  You can have the degustation even during lunch and not necessarily just the Business lunch.  I highly recommend the Degustation!  As with any degustation, this will be a three hour experience and believe me it is worthwhile and something not to be missed!  He is only here til Sunday so make your reservations now.  Call 750-8888 for reservations

Chaud-Froid de petis legumes et coquillages – Chaud -froid of young vegetables and shellfish-Whipped cream with calamansi and spring onion, Jerusalem artichoke, clams, razor clams, sea snail, cherry tomatoes, asparagus 

Croustillant de pomme de terre et truffles, emulsion beurre noisette.  Potato Black truffle, croustillant with brown butter -They had to import the potato from overseas to be able to come up with the croustillant which is the circular crisp.  That is not a puff pastry but a crispy fried potato which was thinly sliced.  Potato spuma, fresh black truffle, burnt brown butter and truffle vinaigrette

Soupe de Chataigne, comte pains grille.  Chestnut soup and Comte toast.  Delicious!  

Champignons. Mushrooms -You cannot order this dish in the ala carte which is why you need to order the degustation!  I have and will not just eat any fresh button mushroom but this one was perfect!  This is an amazing dish!  Rajo and I loved this!  Fresh button mushroom chips, Duxelle mushrooms, bacon ice cream and white chocolate shavings!  YUM!  

 When I was a kid, my favorite restaurant was Tivoli!  I love lamb chops and I would go here to have the lamb chops 🙂  As soon as they made me choose the main course, no doubt I chose the lamb and I am happy Chef Richard had a lamb dish!  The lamb is served pink 🙂  slow cooked in 65 degrees for 25 minutes.  It is topped with a Nori ( seaweed) crust made of breadcrumbs, nori, parmesan cheese and butter!  WOW! I could eat 4 of this 🙂

This was the other choice for the main dish Dos de Merou, cannelloni crabe et avocet, vinaigrette et crust aces.  Lapu Lapu fillet, crab meat-avocado cannelloni and shellfish vinaigrette

Foret noire version 2014. Black forest cake 2014 – Valrhona Chocolate, vanilla mouse with cherry sorbet

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I am so happy to see Chona again!!  The beautiful lady behind Homemade Treasures.  She comes all the way from Pampanga with all her delicious sweets!!!

Previous Entry:  Homemade Treasures January 4,2014

Here she is again up close

Best seller and her specialty is the Classic Ensaymada

Best seller # 2 is the Cheese rolls which I got to try and wow!! LOVE!!!

Her ube jam is also a bestseller

and the Ube Ensaymada is getting to be very popular as well.  I tried many things from Homemade treasures and you can really tell that she does not scrimp on her ingredients

Calamansi Mamon – YUM!

Ham ensaymada!  Also so good!! With a very generous amount of ham inside!  She does not scrimp!

Guava Mamon

New!! Honey Mamon!

Honey Caramel Ensaymada

Pistachio Ensaymada

New!! Caramels!! I love this! I shared it with my sister too – reminded me of dulce gatas from Bacolod but this comes in balls

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Heart2Heart was so busy on HEART day 🙂  I went to the travel fair and realised I was too early arriving at 8am for the 10am opening, so I went to Podium to see this 🙂  Again I was the earliest 🙂

Saw JJ Yulo there a few minutes before I had to leave.  I forgot to ask you JJ what your shirt meant haha 🙂  I like going to JJs bazaars because I find new things I do not know about 

Just a simple set up with a few booths.  A few but very interesting booths – Quality not quantity 🙂

New discovery!  Gourmet Cotton Candy!  This was Pia’s first time to attend a bazaar and introduce her product.  All natural cotton candy which are hand mixed.  It’s healthier without the preservatives but of course no claim of being sugar free 🙂 You can hire her cart for parties or events or you can buy the powder/mix from her

Chona of Homemade Treasures took me here – Yummy cheesecakes.  The ube one uses the ube of Homemade Treasures so I therefore conclude it is Yummy 🙂

LOVE this booth! Pink, hearts and everything sweet 🙂

Sugar Twists by Gonuts Donuts – their booth was not yet set up so no photo of the booth

Marianna and Migs for Buckies!!

Some wine

Sticks and Balls- very interesting ones 🙂  The Bananutella Buchi and the Prawn and foie gras balls 

Risa’s booth was not yet set up so this is all I took 

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The young people nowadays are amazing!  They are very sharp and aggressive!  They are successful at a very young age!  One of them is Linfred Yap of Wee Nam Kee. 

 After 8 branches he is now on his second franchise, this time from Japan.  Though it is a Japanese restaurant, he discovered it in Singapore.  Osaka Ohsho specializing in Gyoza

 Congratulations Linfred!  More power to you!!

 There are three kinds of gyoza – Original, Cheese and Nori ( Seaweed )

 Original 

  Cheese – Parmesan and Gruyere

 Nori

I like it that there are options for sauces, I like the miso aside from the usual black vinegar sauce.  There’s a chili sauce also  

 Aside from gyoza is an extensive menu with many to choose from 

 They use a premium kind of Japanese rice, Koshihikari

 I enjoyed the Fuwatoro which is omelette over the Koshihikari rice

 Love the homemade Japanese ice cream

The world’s #1 gyoza is finally in Manila! Find us at the 3rd floor of SM Megamall’s Fashion Hall. For reservations, text 0917-8285011.

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Finally we got to try Isogi by Chef Gilbert Pangilinan

in San Antonio Plaza Arcade

James had tuna sashimi

and  Salmon Yakitori

Jaime told me to try the UmamiWagyu burger so thats what I had – with everything on it!  Maybe I should not have done that since all the tastes were clashing.  But it was still good!  I am looking forward to coming back and trying other things on the menu 

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