What's on the Menu for Father's Day?: Free glass of red wine for Dad at Raintree Restaurants

MANILA, Philippines - Raintree Restaurants continue to bring innovative hospitality through epicurean savoir-faire to its patrons by offering fresh variety of tastes and experiences just in time for that ideal Father’s Day indulgence in any of its restaurants — MoMo Café, M Café, Mr. Jones, Chelsea Market & Café, Stella, and Rocket Room.

Raintree Restaurants’ string of offerings is peppered with each restaurant’s signature take on gourmet favorites. Available in all of its bistros, the group has put together a P1,195 set menu, which features a 400g grilled Australian ribeye served with French green beans, baby carrots and mashed potatoes in luscious gorgonzola pepper cream. 

Raintree Restaurants are going the extra mile with a complimentary glass of Campobarro Spanish Red Wine to compliment the hefty ribeye — bringing out just the right amount of flush to fuel the celebration.

  The Raintree Restaurants group houses restaurants within the metro namely Mr. Jones, Museum Café, Chelsea Market & Café, MoMo Café, Stella, and Rocket Room.

For inquiries, call 752-5678/5679/5678, visit www.raintreerestaurants/momo or e-mail eat@raintreerestaurants.com.

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Steel-cut oatmeal from Jamba Juice

Jamba Juice offers a blended delight made from orange juice, peaches, bananas and orange sherbet. The Coldbuster is made with Immunity Boost, which adds an extra healthy dose of vitamin C and zinc to help support your immune system during the colder months. For a scrumptious drink grab some Jamba Juice Steel-Cut Oatmeal. Slow-cooked with soymilk, these organic steel-cut oats provide soluble fiber that may reduce the risk of heart disease. You can add fresh bananas, apple cinnamon, blueberry and blackberry, or just brown sugar crumble to perk up the taste of this already luscious delight.

 The Coldbuster and Jamba’s Steel-Cut Oatmeal are definitely two of the must-haves during this rainy season.  

Jamba Juice is at Bonifacio High Street and Alabang Town Center 

Retro sounds, antipasti and beer at Rocket Room

Rocket Room is a bar lounge that provides an assortment of dishes and a variety of antipasti, which shares the stage with its remarkable selection of wines, beers and infused cocktails. Immerse in high fidelity sounds, retro sounds and future beats by a roster of some of the city’s best DJs with In Color Fridays. Get ready for a fantastic soundtrip with flash-matic sound bubbles and sky rocketing tunes by different DJs with Supersonic Saturdays, both happening at 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. 

Liven up your sunset hours with Rocket Hour happening at 4 to 7 p.m. everyday, featuring red and white wines at P125, cocktails at P150, and cañas of beers at P35.

For information, visit www.facebook.com/RocketRoom

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Ribeye steak at Italianni’s

Italianni’s Binondo at the 2nd floor of Lucky Chinatown Mall offers juicy and grilled prime steaks for Dads. Must-try choices include the US T-bone served with pepper sauce; ribeye as well as the US NY Steak. The meat is grilled the way Dad likes it and served with mushroom risotto and seasonal vegetables.   If he prefers other meat entrees, Italianni’s recommends the crispy pork ribs and flaming chicken. Starters include Alaskan crab dip, crab croquette, Italian pockets and Clams de Manille. There are fresh-from-the-oven pizzas with a variety of toppings that will delight even the pickiest eaters. New on the menu are Angus steak, seafood mango and caricato pizzas. Italianni’s pasta dishes such as spaghetti al nero, penne with Italian sausage, shrimp penne mascarpone, crab pasta   and forrestiere fettuccine. Top off the meal with new desserts: Limon Di Cielo and Budino de Pane.

At Italianni’s Lucky Chinatown Mall, food is the center of any celebration, Father’s Day or not.

These dishes are also offered at all Italianni’s branches in Abreeza Mall, Davao; Alabang Town Center, Bonifacio High Street, Taguig; Eastwood, QC; Gateway Mall, Araneta Center, Cubao; Glorietta 4, Ayala Center, Makati; Greenbelt 2, Ayala Center Makati; Greenhills, San Juan; Marquee Mall, Pampanga; Nuvali, Sta. Rosa, Laguna; Robinsons Place Midtown; SM Mall of Asia; Tomas Morato; and TriNoma, QC.

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Absolutely for Dad

The Absolut Company launched its newest vodka, Absolut Elyx. Absolut Elyx boasts a distinct and pure taste rooted in its manual distillation via a hand-operated vintage copper column dating back to 1929. This handcrafted approach paved the way for a new vision of vodka making. The copper elements find their way to the bottle design, a robust silhouette with copper highlights.

Absolut Elyx offers a natural and unadulterated taste, which avid vodka drinkers crave for. Absolut Elyx has a long-lasting smooth finish with a touch of spiciness, and hints of floral and fruity tones. From neat or on the rocks, to cocktails or martinis, the splendid taste and remarkable texture will only leave you asking for more.

Elyx is derived from Elixir, which means “magic formula.” It is comparable to the intricate distillation process that has been practiced for centuries. Absolut Elyx’s distinct production, natural ingredients, texture and flavor set it apart from all other vodkas. Absolut Elyx is exclusively imported and marketed by Pernod Ricard Philippines, Inc.

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Tom Epperson at Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf

The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf held “Brewfinder: Photography Enthusiasm Over Coffee by CBTL,” the first of its Taste Series Activities — pocket events set to complement the taste of avid coffee and tea drinkers by presenting them with avenues to celebrate a wide range of disciplines that match their lifestyles.

In Brewfinder, The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf invited noted photographer Tom Epperson to showcase a set of six limited- edition photographs entitled “Smoke.”

Epperson, the first Manila-based photographer to get invited to showcase his work at the Chelsea Gallery in New York, explained the idea behind using a serendipitous medium for his masterpiece.

“What makes these photographs unique is because it captures a fleeting moment, it only last for a split second and it’s gone, it no longer exist,” shares Epperson, when asked about what it was like working with chemically-produced smoke. ““When I am shooting things of this nature what I am trying to achieve is to get the viewer engaged with the image. I like to show them something in a way they have never seen it before.”

Aside from highlighting Epperson’s artistry, the event also served as a venue to showcase CBTL — the brand’s single-serve system that allows households across the metro to indulge in gourmet cups of The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf’s signature blends.

“CBTL is born of our customers’ desire to savor the same flavor, taste and consistency that our store-purchased drinks offer, right at the comfort of their own homes,” shares Walden Chu, president of The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf-Philippines. “An innovation that came from a partnership between The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf and the Italian legacy brand Caffitaly, CBTL offers versatility in creating café-quality coffee and tea blends — from the basic espresso, americano, macchiato and cappuccino, as well as the hot vanilla, chocolate and flavored coffee and tea options that they have come to know and love from The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf.”