Café by the Ruins

Cafe by the ruins

Looking for an old delicacy, unknown to most people who grew up in Manila (like me), my stomach brought me to the summer capital of the Philippines, Baguio City. This delicacy as my friend have bragged about have been his favorite during his college days there.


I’m talking about, Pinikipikang Manok. It took us a few searches on the internet before we could find this forgotten dish. Finally, the searches returned Café by the Ruins. With just an address we asked the taxi driver if he knows the restaurant and we were in luck, he knew the way.

Pizza Volante

Pizza Volante

Looking for a pizza fix after a morning of trying ukay-ukay at Baguio city, we managed to find a place famous for its pizza and other Italian cuisine.

Pizza Volante is a place not very hard to find just across 7/11 at session road. Look for a green sign that say Pizza Volante and viola eat your heart out.

Cafe Lidia

Cafe Lidia

Cafe Lidia, is just 2 streets away from our house can you imagine that. A great place to eat which is walking distance away. I have often passed by this place which is jam packed with people, car parked at both side lined up, covering almost 3 blocks.

It took me actually a couple of months to visit this place, a bit of sales talk and an offer to pay half of the bill, with my hungry mom, dad and ate we tried out this place.

Mr. Kurosawa

Mr. Kurosawa Euro-Japanese food, eastwood city

After long walks and shopping around Eastwood, my friend and I got hungry. We were deciding whether to eat at Flying pig or Mr. Kurosawa, but Japanese food that time sounds yummy so we decided to take our lunch at Mr. Kurosawa.

The place during that time was really jam packed, they have really big menu. Not just the size of the menu itself but also the number of choices available.  The menu is a combination of old Japanese food mixed with modern Hollywood - named and style of cooking.

Ambos Mundos

Ambos Mundo

They say this is one of the oldest restaurants in the Philippines and I also have read this on Carlos Celdran’s blog, he describes the menus as “definitely Rizalian” and the interior design as “Nick Joaquin chic.” Patrons will be amused to see a black pig lounging near the entryway of the establishment. The staff says the pig is there for luck.

Ambos Mundo restaurant is located at the Sta.Cruz, Manila across another restaurant Wah Sun which I wrote about last Feb 2011 on this blog. As the name suggest, it serves both worlds Filipino and Spanish cuisine.

Sizzlin Pepper Steak

Sizzlin Pepper Steak

For my boss’ farewell dinner we decided to eat at a place called sizzlin Pepper Steak. It’s part of the Teriyaki Boy food chain.  We ate at SM Megamall Atrium; the place is very clean and has cozy interiors. What I loved about this place is the paper mat that tells you how to eat your pepper rice and steaks.