MANILA, Philippines -Chelsea Market and Restaurant offers dessert faves like the Choc-Nut Valrhona Cake and Banana Crunch Cream Pie. Other desserts include Snickers Fudge, NY Chocolate Chip Brown Cookie Dough Cheesecake, Choco Caramel Swirl and the Four-Layer Toblerone Torte. Bestsellers are the creamy and delectable Banana Cream Pie and Tres Leches.
Chelsea is located at Serendra, BGC, 909-7011; and Podium, Ortigas Center, 914-0006.
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Farm-fresh country food at Discovery Country Suites Tagaytay
Discovery Country Suites Tagaytay offers its farm-fresh country food at Verbena Restaurant. One of the culinary creations is chicken and waffles, Southern-style fried chicken over homemade Belgian waffles drizzled with maple syrup.
For information, call 529-8172 or visit discoveryhotels-resorts.com.
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Adobo rice at Binalot
Binalot offers its newest meal, adobo rice. An alternative to sinangag, adobo rice consists of adobo sauce and bits of adobo meat in rice. Just add P10 to upgrade your regular rice to adobo rice if you order any of Binalot’s all-time Pinoy dishes. Binalot’s ATP rice serving has been reduced, but the customer can avail of either one free extra rice or a free eight-ounce Mirinda Funmix.
For information, visit www.binalot.com, or like Binalot on Facebook: www.facebook.com/binalotfiesta, or follow @Binalot on Twitter.
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Melted pepper jack rib-eye at Chili’s
Chili’s offers new man-sized dishes. There is Chili’s Melted Pepper Jack Ribeye seasoned with peppercorn and topped with Jalapeño Jack cheese, served with Jalapeño mashed potatoes and steamed broccoli. Steak with Chile Lime Shrimps is peppercorn-spiced sirloin steak topped with grilled shrimp with a Chile lime glaze. The Orange Habanero Salmon is glazed with orange Habanero glaze and topped with green onions. Chili’s Bold Nachos comes with mashed black beans, melted chipotle cheddar cheese topped with fajita chicken or beef, roasted jalapeños and a cilantro aioli drizzle. For dessert, try the raspberry empanadas made with cream cheese filling, served with vanilla ice cream and drizzled with raspberry syrup.
Chili’s is at Greenbelt 5, Makati City, 729-3022; Tomas Morato, Quezon City, 372-5017; Alabang Town Center, Muntinlupa City, 846-2647; Greenhills, San Juan City, 727-2959; Power Plant Mall, Rockwell, Makati City, 659-6527; and Mega Atrium, SM Megamall, Mandaluyong City, 631-0380.
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Chicken maki at Teriyaki Boy
Teriyaki Boy’s Katipunan Avenue branch in Quezon City reopened recently with a new look. The brand logo has been made more hip and fun. The interiors embody the look of modern Tokyo, thanks to architect Ed Calma of Lor Calma & Associates. A Japanese chef was hired to add new dishes to the menu. There is the new Teriyaki Boy chicken maki, a scrumptious version of your fave entrée. Now the restaurant’s signature dish can be enjoyed in a roll — wrapped in nori, topped with a combo of chicken skin, grilled chicken and Japanese mayo. Another new dish is the lechon kawali salad made with lechon kawali strewn on top of fresh greens drizzled with wasabi dressing.
Teriyaki Boy is located on Katipunan Avenue across the Ateneo de Manila campus in Quezon City.
For information, visit www.teriyakiboy.com, like Teriyaki Boy on Facebook/ TeriyakiBoyPh or follow on Twitter @TeriyakiBoyPH.
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Mt. Apo Boodle at Blackbeard’s Seafood Island
Blackbeard’s Seafood Island offers its newest dish Mt. Apo Boodle. Other dishes include imbao sa buco, steamed crabs, grilled liempo, inihaw na manok sa gata, grilled squid, steamed shrimps, fried tilapia, law-uy, kinilaw na tanigue, balbakwa, ensalatang lato with crispy dilis and salted fish rice. Blackbeard’s Seafood Island has branches nationwide.