Eats N Gadgets

Lately, I’ve been going to Resorts World Manila (RWM) at Newport City (Villamor Airforce Base, across from NAIA 3) for evening entertainment — specifically, to watch Maximus at the casino’s Bar 360. Maximus is a foreign acrobat entertainment act featured at Bar 360.  It’s actually a compilation of various acrobats — Power Duo, Essence Trio, [...]

Alright, let me say first and foremost that I promised in the very beginning NOT to slam an establishment — this is not a slam! Ok, with that out of the way, let’s talk about the new Malcolm’s Place.  Apparently, Malcolm’s Place has taken over the former Maurizio’s! They’ve retained the Maurizio’s menu, which was [...]

L’Opera remains one of my favorite restaurants in Manila.  The food is excellent and consistent.  They used to be located right across the street from my office and I would eat there once a week.  Now that they’ve moved to the Fort Strip, I don’t get to go as much as I should … I [...]

Over at the old Blanco Center Apartments (now renamed Picasso Serviced Residences Makati), on the ground floor, there’s a new restaurant called Brasserie Boheme.  I first dropped by on the first week it opened to take a look at the menu.  It looked good enough, so I planned a dinner with some friends who work [...]

Maurizio‘s is a wonderful Italian restaurant along H.V. dela Costa.  It’s near the Saudi Embassy and Planters Development Bank. I’d passed this restaurant over and again coming from Valero on my way home to San Antonio, and often wondered what the restaurant was.  It’s raised slightly from street level, with open air dining fronting the [...]

I love Zuni! It’s at the quiet side of Greenbelt, with gardens on one side.  The waiters are friendly friendly friendly … and incredibly attentive.  The kitchen is consistent and puts out wonderful dishes. After work, I sometimes go there with family or friends to have a glass of wine and some pica-pica before dinner. [...]

My 19 year old sister came back from the States last month.  She’d been away for close to two years.  Of course, many things had changed about her .. .she grew up … more mature, more self assured, and she’d started enjoying social drinking.  As these teenagers in the States go, beer was the drink [...]

Here’s a free plug for the Pacquiao-Cotto fight promo of Lolo Dad’s Brasserie at 6750 over in Makati (Ayala Malls).  Received this by text message. For P500/head, you get a free drink and watch the fight live on November 15th.  The fight starts at 10AM, so you might as well stay for Sunday brunch/lunch. Since [...]

What is it that makes Max’s Fried Chicken so yummy? I had to do a quick errand at SM Makati today during my lunch break. Lucky for me there’s a Max’s at the 2nd floor right before you hit Kultura. I ordered my staple 1/2 spring chicken and crabmeat fried rice to share. Yumm!!!!! Good [...]

This is a small restaurant along Pasay Road, near the corner of Edades St. (the SanLo side of Paseo de Roxas).  For those of you familiar with the area, it used to be a larger dining establishment under the name Joni’s.  As you know, Joni’s closed down years ago.  Then, I think around 3 years [...]