Newly-opened along Wilson Street in Greenhills, San Juan, Filipino-Capampangan restaurant-bakery-grocery Butchie’s Recipes of La Moderna Pampanga invites everyone to drop by and enjoy family heirloom recipes, bestsellers from the 62 year old La Moderna of Guagua, Pampanga complemented by carefully selected food and non-food items from the “gourmet” province.
Specialty dishes include crab adobo, beef calitiran and bulanglang na bangus – sinigang soup using guava as souring agent. Meryenda items include okoy, lumpiang sariwa, chicken macaroni salad, sandwiches and delectable pastries such as sans rival, sylvannas and taisan rolls.
Beverages include pandan ice tea and tsokolate de batirol which can be served with duman, the prized and rare green cereal of Pampanga harvested only in the cool months of the year. Take out items include artisan products sampaguita, masa podrida, San Nicolas, turrones de casoy, gorgoryas and many more.
Reasonably priced value meals at P75 are also available: Mondays – asado; Tuesday – sinigang na baboy; Wednesday – rellenong bangus; Thursday – bola-bola; Friday – nilagang manok and Saturday – paksiw na bangus.
Visit Butchie’s Recipes of La Moderna Pampanga located at the Ground Floor of Health Cube Building, 226 Wilson Street, West Greenhills, San Juan, Metro Manila. Tel (63 2) 385 0387 or mobile +63 917 844 7593. Email butchiesoflamoderna@yahoo.com. Website butchiesrecipes.blogspot.com and http://ansongo.multiply.com/.