Alt Scoops, the oat-milk-powered, low-calorie ice cream brand just launched 3 decadent dairy-free ice cream bars. They’ve perfected their 3 bestselling flavors (Oat Milk, Strawberry, and Cappuccino Crunch), dipped them in rich dark chocolate, and put them on a stick for a medley of flavors you won’t want to miss. A generous yet guilt-free bar on a stick.
Enter—Alt Pops. These undeniably delicious, yet guilt-free indulgences will make a dairy-free believer out of any hardcore dairy ice cream fan. Popsicles that will literally leave you to pop ‘til you drop.
Alt Scoops’s creamy, just-the-right-amount-of-sweet oat milk ice cream is wrapped in a perfectly thick and crispy chocolate shell comprised of Auro’s 64% Dark Couverture Chocolate. Each bite starts with a crack of a generous coating of Auro, followed by an explosion of mind-blowing flavors brought forward by their 3 bestsellers: Oat Milk, Strawberry, and Cappuccino Crunch.
A generous yet guilt-free bar on a stick. The scrumptious contrast between the slightly lighter consistency of oat milk ice cream, in combination with the thick and rich coating of dark chocolate, envelopes your palate almost instantly.
Alt Pops presents itself as a grab-and-go snack that’s sweet but never too much with an incredibly simple ingredient list. A truly satisfying treat made for adults and kids alike. Bonus: these 3 flavors come in the cutest packaging.
About the Flavors
Oat Milk
A decadent yet simple combination of oat milk dipped in Auro’s award-winning couverture 64% dark chocolate for a perfectly thick and crisp outer shell.
Strawberry
Just like our OG pints, our newest Alt Pops Strawberry is composed of freshly and locally sourced Cordillera strawberries. Each one is harvested by hand when perfectly ripe. Perfectly captured in each stick.
Cappuccino Crunch
Smooth flavors from Italian Arabica Espresso beans, but with a kick. Creamy but with a crunch of Auro’s award-winning couverture 64% dark chocolate and almonds.
Max’s Restaurant’s bakeshop brand, Max’s Corner Bakery, is adding two new mini cakes to their lineup of delicious desserts! Customers can now indulge in Max’s take on two Pinoy favorites: Black Forestand Chocolate Mousse.
With their 5-inch size, these mini cakes are perfect for small groups of friends and families who want to have a good time, or celebrate small wins in a special way, especially after enjoying a sumptuous meal from Max’s!
Photo: Max’s Corner Bakery
Their Mini Black Forest Cake is made with a soft and moist cherry-soaked chiffon chocolate cake with whipped cream and dark cherry, further accented by tempting dark chocolate shavings topped with eye-popping red cherries.
Photo: Max’s Corner Bakery
Meanwhile, their Mini Chocolate Mousse charms with its decadent layers of chocolate fudge cake and chocolate mousse, topped with piped whipped cream and grated chocolate.
Photo: Max’s Corner Bakery
The Mini Black Forest Cake and Mini Chocolate Mousse are available for a limited time at a price of P499 for dine-in customers. It is also available for take-out and delivery in Luzon stores except Naga and Palawan. Orders can also be made through delivery.maxschicken.com or by contacting 888-79000 (Metro Manila).
The Bistro Group, a leading operator of iconic full-service, fast-casual and quick-service restaurant brands in the Philippines, today announced plans to expand its portfolio with a newly signed development agreement with Fogo de Chão, the internationally renowned experiential restaurant from Brazil known for the culinary art of churrasco. Through the agreement, The Bistro Group will bring five Fogo de Chão locations to the Philippines over the next six years, marking Fogo’s first-ever presence in Asia. The Bistro Group joins Fogo’s existing international franchise partners in Mexico and the Middle East and expects to open the first Fogo location in 2023.
The Bistro Group is a multi-concept restaurant company that operates a collection of domestic and international hospitality, casual dining, and upscale, chef-driven concepts in the Philippines, unified by a people-focused philosophy. The group currently operates 111 restaurants across 21 restaurant brands including TGI Friday’s, Italianni’s, Denny’s, Buffalo Wild Wings, Rambla, Las Flores and more.
The international development agreement with Fogo comes as part of The Bistro Group’s larger growth plan, as it recently announced plans to open 30 restaurants including new and existing brands in 2022.
“Fogo de Chão is exactly what our business seeks out when looking for franchise partners,” said Bill Stelton, Chairman and CEO of The Bistro Group. “The company’s upscale and internationally-renowned dining concept, paired with its passion for Southern Brazilian hospitality and the culinary art of churrasco makes them an invaluable addition to our portfolio.”
Founded in Southern Brazil in 1979 and now headquartered in the U.S., Fogo de Chão is an award-winning restaurant concept known for offering dining discoveries at every turn, featuring the authentic flavors of churrasco where gaucho chefs butcher, prepare and grill high-quality cuts of protein over an open flame, then carve tableside for guests. Simply seasoned, fire-roasted proteins are the core of their prix-fixed Full Churrasco dining experience where guests can enjoy a variety of flavors ranging from premium filet mignon and bone-in cowboy ribeye; decadent beef ribs and lamb chops; and house specialties Picanha (prime cut of the top sirloin) and Fraldinha (bottom sirloin with strong marbling for robust flavor). With a modern, timeless design and signature offerings including a fresh and seasonal Market Table and an award-winning Bar Fogo menu featuring hand-crafted cocktails and South American wines, Fogo has become a destination of choice in major cities around the world.
“We are honored to partner with The Bistro Group to help bring the Fogo de Chão experience to the Philippines, as we accelerate our plans for expansion in both international and domestic markets,” said Andy Feldmann, President of International at Fogo de Chão. “We can’t wait to welcome the local communities to dine with us and discover new favorites at the Fogo table in Asia soon.”
With 66 locations worldwide and growing, Fogo earlier in 2022 announced a 15 percent planned annual growth rate through company-owned restaurants, with an additional international capital light franchise development strategy.
Nine years after opening its first café in Tokyo, Café Kitsuné is now finally coming to the Philippines.
Café Kitsuné Manila is expected to officially open in July 2022 at The Podium in Ortigas Center in Mandaluyong City. Further details will be made available at a later date. But expect Café Kitsuné’s Philippine location to have its beloved signature Paris-meets-Tokyo atmosphere and aesthetic. Café Kitsuné Manila, like all of its cafés around the world, is a modernist reinterpretation of the classic Parisian café and wine bar.
Created in 2013, Café Kitsuné has grown to a network of 20 cafés across the world including Tokyo, Paris, Seoul, New York City, Beijing, and Vancouver, achieving cult status amongst specialty coffee lovers around the world. In 2019, Café Kitsuné has also extended its activities to new business lines, adding roasteries, bars, and restaurants to its range.
The ethos of Café Kitsuné echoes this. Modern and urban, with a unique savoir-faire. It offers a warm, sensory dining experience, whether for coffee, afternoon tea, night cocktails, or lunch and dinner among friends. It opened its first café in Tokyo in the Aoyama neighborhood and has since opened other locations in other highly-coveted metropolitan cities such as Paris, Tokyo, Seoul, New York, Shanghai, Jakarta, and Bangkok. Each location maintains its signature modern Parisian café and wine bar look and fee. Yet it also imbibes the local spirit of its iconic global locations.
Café Kitsuné has since become a cult favorite among the locals of its many locations and travelers, and creative coffee connoisseurs. Every Café Kitsuné location is chic and convivial. It welcomes visitors of all ages throughout the day, every day.
The highlight of any visit to Café Kitsuné is its high-quality coffee. Known for being full-bodied and flavorsome, Café Kitsuné cultivates its single-origin coffee beans in Brazil and Guatemala, and are roasted with the utmost care. This makes for a perfect cup of espresso, cappuccino, cold brew, or nitro—smooth and syrupy, with hints of cherry and chocolate. And each cup is prepared by a talented team of passionate baristas who understand the art of coffee making.
Menus in other locations are executed by local chefs who consider their location’s signature flavors without sacrificing the taste fans of Café Kitsuné look for.
Menu items Filipino guests can expect at Café Kitsuné Manila include many favorites, such as its signature burger, styled as a beef teriyaki tartare with bacon, fried egg, and comté; and the croque-monsieur with tuna, lemongrass, and ginger, and the café’s specialty bechamel sauce. Customers can expect a wealth of flavors with the café’s dessert menu, from mochi made with seasonal fruits to a carpaccio served with Sichuan pepper and Thai basilic syrup. Café Kitsuné’s cocktails are also a favorite among regulars, and its emphasis on an understated yet refreshing balance of flavors is expected to carry over in the Manila location.
Manila customers can also expect Café Kitsuné to carry its collection of accessories and tableware.
Located at The Shops at Ayala Triangle Gardens, The Bistro Group’s Rumba is now open to tickle your tastebuds. It is helmed by Chef Alfredo Rodriguez Sangrador who has been living in the Philippines for 8 years now and is the Head Chef of the Bistronomia group with restaurants like Las Flores, Rambla, Tomatito, and BCN by Las Flores.
The flavors were inspired by countries that surround the Mediterranean Sea where guests can expect a taste of Spanish, Italian, Greek, and a bit of French. Upon entrance, you’ll notice the rich patchwork of textures ranging from white floral blooms to a compelling wood ceiling and furniture accents in colors that carry the characteristics of the Mediterranean landscape. Definitely a perfect date place or if you’re grabbing a bite with your colleagues.
Rumba focuses on a cooking method using a charcoal oven which infuses smoky flavors into the chef’s specialty dishes. The paella is cooked to perfection using a cast-iron casserole and is placed inside the Mibrasa charcoal oven using 100% charcoal imported from Spain. “We don’t call our charcoal rice, paella, because we don’t use a paellera,” Chef Alfredo explains. “90% of our dishes are cooked in the said oven including French-style free-range chicken, local squid (lumot), lamb chops, duck confit, octopus, shrimp, cheeses, and the mouth-watering cochinillo or suckling pig.
An open charcoal grill, meanwhile, sizzles with other fares such as salmon, tomahawk steak, and tenderloin. There is also a pasta section with choices such as vongole, carbonara, and lobster pasta, along with risottos in choices of seafood or foie.
Chef Alfredo brings his culinary expertise to other Mediterranean favorites such as hummus, lamb, and chicken gyros. He also gives a nod to his Spanish heritage with out-of-the-ordinary takes on traditional food, with croquettas, scallop ceviche, tuna and scallop empanadilla, Spanish cod omelette, and gambas that are not the typical style. The open kitchen provides an inviting feel and connection between the guests and the chefs.
Rumba is located at The Shops at Ayala Triangle Gardens. For reservation or inquiries, call +639158564264,
“Jollibee always aims to spread joy to our customers, whether for dine-in, take out, drive-thru, or delivery. We continuously innovate our services to deliver a levelled-up customer experience,” said Jollibee Philippines President Ferns Yu, Jr. “We are piloting new innovations and technology in select stores, and are excited to roll them out to more branches in the future.”
These innovations complement the company’s signature Alagang Jollibee brand of service. “We’re very proud of our store teams’ trademark warm and joyful service—that’s what sets our teams apart in the fast-food industry. These new features contribute to an even better level of customer convenience, and increased efficiency for our operations as well,” Yu added.
Here are the store innovations to check out at select Jollibee stores:
Jollibots. First on the list is the viral Jollibots which netizens spotted months before in Jollibee’s SM Aura branch in Bonifacio Global City during the pilot stage. Dining robotics were once considered futuristic, but the Jollibots have now started to serve and delight dine-in customers at Jollibee SM Aura, Taguig and Jollibee Glorietta, Makati. Soon, they’ll be present at Jollibee SM Seaside Cebu as well.
Jollibots conveniently dispatch food to customers’ tables, helping out the store team especially during peak hours. These are present in Jollibee SM Aura, Taguig and Jollibee Glorietta, Makati, and soon in Jollibee SM Seaside Cebu.
The Jollibots may be considered as the store team’s on-ground assistants, ready to extend a helping hand in dispatching orders straight to customers’ tables — allowing the crew to focus on other important tasks or attend to special requests of customers especially during peak hours.
“With the Jollibots, our store teams in select stores are experiencing the benefits of serving their customers even more efficiently. While these Jollibots are welcome additions, we have maintained and will continue to keep the same number of crew in these branches as they remain integral to our day-to-day operations and in delivering our Alagang Jollibee brand of service,” Yu shared.
Jollibee introduced Smart Lockers where customers and aggregator riders can pick up orders safely with zero wait time. These can be found in Jollibee Angono Bayan, Rizal, Jollibee P. Tuazon, Quezon City, and Jollibee Northbay Boulevard, Navotas.
Smart Lockers. Waiting to pick up food orders will soon become a thing of the past, thanks to the new smart lockers. Designed to also complement the convenient Order & Pick up feature of the Jollibee App, this makes the customer’s journey even more seamless and hassle free. Jollibee customers on-the-go can conveniently place their orders via the Jollibee App, then wait for the store to confirm their transaction and inform them of the smart locker pick up process. Once in the store, customers can go directly to the smart locker, key in their order number, and the corresponding locker will automatically open. Orders are guaranteed safe and secure, and there’s zero wait time as well. Check out the Smart Lockers at Jollibee Angono Bayan, Rizal, Jollibee P. Tuazon, Quezon City, and Jollibee Northbay Boulevard, Navotas.
Whether it’s peak hour or not, the Rider’s Area in Jollibee GMA Cavite ensures that riders are given a safe and convenient place where they can get customer orders.
Rider’s Area. Where to wait and sit while waiting to pick up your customers’ orders in a jampacked Jollibee store? Riders of aggregator partners servicing GMA Cavite will worry no more as Jollibee’s branch in the said city has a new Rider’s Area—a dedicated and safe waiting and pick-up area where partner riders can rest comfortably as they wait for the orders of their customers. With this, crowding is avoided inside the store especially during peak hours, ensuring the safety of partner riders and customers alike.
Customers can enjoy their meals in an open-air setting Jollibee GMA Cavite’s new and improved al fresco dining area.
Al Fresco Dining. With more people continuing to take extra safety precautions especially when dining out with their family and friends, Jollibee will soon be allotting more floor space for an Al fresco area. The newest and levelled up al fresco dining area—adorned with nice murals and plants—are already welcoming customers at Jollibee GMA Cavite.
Jollibee president Ferns Yu shares that eating at Jollibee has always been associated with great bonding times in a place where you can be yourself and just feel at home. “So regardless of one’s new dining preference in this new normal, they will be able to continue enjoying the same treasured Jollibee experience over their favorite langhap-sarap meals.”
Self-Order Kiosks, which are available in 129 stores nationwide, allow customers to order their langhap-sarap favorites in 3 easy steps – order, pay, and claim!
Self-Order Kiosks (SOKs). Jollibee first piloted the self-order kiosks or SOKs back in 2018 to provide a faster and more efficient ordering process in stores. Now, more than 300 SOK units are present at 129 Jollibee stores nationwide. With a huge touchscreen menu board, choosing what to eat just became easier. Customers can go cashless and use their debit or credit cards to pay using the SOK terminal, or they can opt to pay cash at the counter. With the SOKs, Jollibee favorites can be enjoyed in just three easy steps – order, pay, and claim!
The Dual Lane Drive-Thru in Jollibee Petron SLEX allows the store to serve more customers and cuts down turnaround time.
Dual-lane Drive-Thru. Jollibee also improves the drive-thru experience with dual lanes, sensors, and food conveyor belts, increasing the store’s drive-thru capacity, shortening the turnaround time for customers, and making dispatching food faster and fuss-free. The Dual-Lane Drive-Thru is present at Jollibee Petron SLEX, Laguna and will soon be experienced by customers at Jollibee Shell SLEX, Laguna. Meanwhile, food conveyor belts are operational and have been making order dispatch even faster at Petron SLEX, Shell C5 Heritage, Taguig, and Ayala Center Cebu branches.
Jon Villanueva, the Vice President of Restaurant Systems of Jollibee, hopes that these new innovations will help customers have an even more enjoyable experience whether they prefer to have their Jollibee favorites in store, at home, or even on the road.
“We’re very excited about these cutting-edge innovations in our stores, some of which are firsts in the local fast-food industry. The future of Joy is here, and we continue to be committed to making our customers’ Alagang Jollibee experience even better as we roll these out in more stores nationwide,” he said.
Mornings at Italianni’s just got perkier with the addition of new breakfast dishes. And for those who live near Greenbelt, this branch now serves breakfast daily while Italianni’s Bonifacio High Street is open for breakfast on Saturdays and Sundays only.
Avocado Toast
Jumpstart your day with an item or two from this selection: French Toast and Fruits, Italian Sausage Scramble, Smoked Salmon Scramble, Granola & Mixed Fruits; Avocado Toast, Pancetta & Potato Hash, Croquette Madame and Breakfast Grilled Pork Chop.
Croquette MadamePancetta & Potato Hash
Of course, there are the breakfast mainstays such as waffles and pancakes, omellettes, salads, Continental Breakfast selection, local favorites and coffee, tea, fruits and juices
Italian Sausage Toast
Bring your Bistro BFF Card and enjoy 20% discount on breakfast fare on Saturdays & Sundays.
Over the past years, it has been known that Filipinos not only enjoy consuming food but are also avid chefs and bakers when it comes to cooking for their loved ones Tinapayan Festival, a local bakeshop in Manila offering soft and sweet baked products for over 40 years, is no stranger to that.
Tinapayan Festival’s Adelaida’s Torte is a tribute to its founder Lucito ‘Chito’ Chavez’ late mother, Adelaida “Diday” Chavez.
While the bakeshop’s patrons come back for its bestsellers like ensaimada, cheese rolls, eclairs, napoleones, and its slew of over 200 baked products, nothing stops them from sharing and recreating family recipes so that more Filipinos can enjoy delectable treats made from the heart.
“It was always a dream of ours to share what we have not only in the knowledge and skills in baking but as well as the family recipes we have grown to love. Our customers are very dear to us and our growth, so it is just right to share products that are inspired by our own family recipes and memories,” shares Lucito ‘Chito’ Chavez, Founder and General Manager of Tinapayan Festival.
Fit for a Queen
In 2020, Tinapayan Festival offered for the first time its bestselling Queen’s Chocolate Cake, which was launched at a time when Mother’s Day was just around the corner. It is made with the finest Couverture chocolate and the highest quality cream. The team behind Tinapayan Festival answered a growing need for celebratory cakes during Mother’s Day when the Philippines underwent its first lockdown back in 2020.
Queen’s Chocolate Cake
“When most of the local bakeries across Manila closed shop in 2020, we had to stay open to serve the community in need. We received a lot of inquiries for special cakes and thought why not create a premium chocolate cake befitting a queen for our deserving mothers. Using premium chocolate depicts how special our mothers are for us and we knew that our customers would love it, too,” says Potenciano Clarito Chavez, Operations Manager of Tinapayan Festival.
Aside from it being created in honor of Queen Elizabeth, this premium chocolate cake was also made in honor of the hard work, commitment, and love the family had for Maribel “Belen” C. Chavez, one of the co-founders of Tinapayan Festival and the wife of Chito.
Celebrating Fond Memories
It’s not enough to just celebrate with good food. Oftentimes in Filipino culture, celebrating a small or big win, a birthday, anniversary, or anything else for that matter entails having a great dessert to top of a joyous occasion. This month, Tinapayan Festival launches its Adelaida’s Torte, its special torte made of meringue with chopped nuts, filled with chocolate ganache using premium quality couverture chocolate, butter icing, and caramel, and topped off with rich butter icing made specifically for the dessert.
Nanay Diday with Tinapayan Festival Founder and GM Lucito ‘Chito’ Chavez
Inspired and a tribute to the founder’s late mother, Adelaida “Diday” B. Chavez, who loved planting cacao beans that were later then made into local Batangas tablea the family gave out as gifts to friends and relatives back in the day. It was just recently when the Chavez family decided to create a chocolate torte taking inspiration from Nanay Diday’s love for chocolate.
Nothing beats family recipes
Meals are much more special when based on recipes that have been passed down by ancestors. The legacy they leave behind remains in delectable treats and baked goods that leave the heart and tummy happy.
Nanay Diday’s Special Polvoron
This month, Tinapayan Festival revives its special polvoron now dubbed, Nanay Diday’s Special Polvoron, which was based on Nanay Diday’s homemade polvoron recipe and features full cream powder, which complements all the other ingredients and ensures that each flavor is tasted by consumers.
Nanay Diday was known back in the 60s for molding polvoron using her hulma purchased in Escolta. This specific hulma was used by her family up until the late 80s and was kept as a reminder for the family for all the years Nanay Diday gave to creating handmade polvoron that she served not only to her family but to close friends as well. This time around, the bakeshop has improved on the traditional family recipe to introduce this special polvoron.
Supporting Local Farmers
Planting has been one of Nanay Diday’s hobbies in the past. One staple agricultural product she time and time again planted and used for her recipes was the all-time Filipino favorite, ube.
Ube Loaf
Growing up exposed to ube being incorporated and cooked as a staple dessert at home, Chito was inspired in the early 2000s to create and incorporate this agricultural crop into their soft and sweet breads at Tinapayan Festival. Two of the products they created inspired by Nanay Diday’s love for ube are Tinapayan Festival’s Ube Loaf and Ube Twirl.
The Ube Loaf is the bakeshop’s twist to the soft and moist bread with real ube halaya, low protein flour, eggs, milk, and refined sugar. Meanwhile, the Ube Twirl features real ube halaya filling, perfect for those on-the-go and want something that’s ready and easy to eat any time of the day.
Use Twirl
Visit Tinapayan Festival at 1650 Dapitan St. corner Don Quijote, Sampaloc, Manila or call (02) +8 732 2188 or (63) 0961 715 2714 to place your advance orders. Send them an email at sales@tinapayan@gmail.com
Tinapayan Festival is also available in GrabFood and FoodPanda. You can also place bulk orders in advance. To learn more about Tinapayan Festival’s Mother’s Day products and treats, follow them on Facebook or Instagram.
Mark your calendars because Krispy Kreme is celebrating 85 years of happy and magical moments this month. For decades, the Home of the Originals has been serving its Original Glazed® doughnuts and a variety of delightful creations including unique twists to your favorite snacks and drinks. This year, Krispy Kreme is making its birthday celebration extra special with the launch of three New Original treats fit for every celebration!
A fun take for your birthday cake!
What better way to celebrate another year than with Krispy Kreme’s new Chocolate Birthday Drip Cake. A tri-color chocolate cake topped with fun birthday sprinkles, no birthday will be complete without this one-of-a-kind unglazed decadent masterpiece piped with yellow, purple, and blue white chocolate. This sweet treat was made for a delicious, doughnut-filled birthday bash. The Chocolate Birthday Drip Cake is available until July 31 only and can be bought per piece or in half-dozen, dozen, and double dozen boxes. Price starts at Php 55.
Happiness is adding a dash of sprinkles
Krispy Kreme’s Minis, the bite-sized versions of its world-famous doughnuts, is a celebration of the little things that count. So, in honor of 85 magical years, OGs can now enjoy a limited-edition Mini Chocolate Glaze with Birthday Sprinkles – perfect for whether you’re celebrating a birthday solo or with your closest loved ones. Starting at Php 215, Minis are sold in boxes of 16 and also available in Mini Original Glazed® flavor.
Because we love you berry much
Now, Krispy Kreme’s birthday lineup wouldn’t be complete without an indulgent beverage to bring everything together. On July 15, keep your eyes out for the Mixed Berry Birthday Chiller, a two-toned drink made with blended blueberry and strawberry kreme, finished off with whipped cream and birthday sprinkles on top. This 16 oz. mix of berry delight will be available for a limited time only at a sweet introductory price of Php 180.
“For 85 years, Krispy Kreme has spread joy and delight by serving customers new and Original creations featuring our world-famous Original Glazed® doughnuts. This year is no different. We want to thank you, the OGs, for the constant support and being with us from the very start. We look forward to remaining in your happy place for many more years to come,” said Ysabel Cruz, Marketing Manager of Krispy Kreme.
Come join the celebration of 85 years with Krispy Kreme when you order these three New Originals. Visit your nearest branch today, or have it delivered to your doorstep by calling 888-79000 or ordering online through now.krispykreme.com.ph, GrabFood, Foodpanda, Pick.a.Roo, Mangan, OrderMo, and Groover.
All-you-can-eat aficionados can look forward to indulgent weekdays as well as weekends as New World Makati Hotel’s Café 1228 restaurant, extends operations daily starting July 4, 2022. The venue’s buffet stations highlight best-selling dishes from off-the-grill meats and seafood, Asian and local selections, handmade pasta and pizza, decadent desserts, as well as a selection of bread, charcuterie, and cheeses.
The carving station features tender and juicy prime rib or ribeye grilled to perfection with sides of either mashed potato or pumpkin, and roasted vegetables. Other options include porchetta or roasted turkey, beef striploin in herb oil, soy calamansi marinated pork spare ribs, lamb brochette, tanigue, and Hungarian sausage. Sauces paired with each are the black peppercorn, mushroom, and mint jelly.
The freshest seafood comprising prawns, mussels, and crabs also worth the visit, with options to grill or steam and top with various flavorful sauces. These can likewise be enjoyed as a soup dish and with noodles, for that belly-warming treat. On special occasions, plump and juicy lobsters and oysters are also available.
The Japanese section also features some well-known items such as salmon and tuna sashimi, shrimp, fish and vegetables and tempura, seaweed or nori salad, as well as the California maki roll, spicy tuna maki roll, inari sushi, and futomaki. Miso soup and pickled vegetables complete the selections at this station.
In the Western kitchen is a range of appetizers and salads to go nicely with any of the meat and seafood selections, such as cold pasta primavera, vegetable bruschetta, tuna ceviche, and salami antipasto. An array of mains include baked stuffed chicken in truffle mushroom sauce, beef bourguignon, seafood casserole, buttered vegetables, and potato and pumpkin gratin.
The Asian station highlights a mix of the best Asian and Filipino fare. From beef brisket to salted egg fish fillet, stir-fried kailan with garlic, lechon paksiw, and barramundi head in curry sauce, there are also steamed items such as steamed barramundi, spare ribs, and pork buns.
Decadent desserts conclude the hearty feast at Café 1228, which consist of mango cashew sans rival, ube roulade, walnut royale pie, fruit clusters, bread and butter pudding with vanilla sauce, and a crepe station with options of mango or banana paired with chocolate, mango, vanilla or strawberry sauce. Ice cream selections, halo-halo, and mais con yelo are also must-haves for a truly sweet ending.
Café 1228 offers a Book and Buy promo for lunch from Mondays to Fridays at PHP1,288 net per person extended until July 29, 2022. Prepayment is required to confirm the reservation. To reserve, guests can fill out the online form: https://bit.ly/NWCafe1228BookandBuy.
For inquiries on weekday dinner and weekend rates, guests can call +63288116888, e-mail reservations.manila@newworldhotels.com, or book a room package directly via the website https://manila.newworldhotels.com/en/. They can also send a mobile message on Viber or Whatsapp via +639178884194, or check out the hotel’s official Facebook and Instagram accounts for the latest promotions.
