Images KEVIN DE ASIS Everything is happening in Iloilo City and it’s not only because it has been declared the Philippines’ first UNESCO Creative City of Gastronomy. EAT LIKE AN ILONGGO From top: Callos by Kalel Chan and Kieth Bianson; beef tenderloin with gravy infused with tabagak or salted...
Among the highlights of the just-concluded Tagaytay Food and Wine Festival was dinner at Fatted Calf Tagaytay, a farm-to-table restaurant down a steep slope of hill across the ridge. It is, after all, along with her co-chef and husband Jayjay Sycip, run by pastry chef Rhea Sycip, who chaired the...
Flash fiction doesn’t often come with a plot, although like most other forms of narratives, it comes with a beginning, a middle, and an end. It’s more about a mood, a thought, a memory, and a prompt to make the reader think deeply about the story that is usually larger than what is written....
It took more than endless shots of Macallan on the rocks or a tender, meaty, flavorful tomahawk, not to mention pork belly slow-roasted to perfection, to get anybody who had ever been to a dinner party hosted by the gracious Cruz couple, construction magnate Philip Cruz and his wife, businesswoman...
No rest for the wicked, no habrá paz para los malvados, especially if you are an artist chef like Bruce Ricketts and like his wife, Jae de Veyra Pickrell, pure creative and intellectual, whom we call the principal nerd, along with Stephanie Zubiri, at our book club The Very Extra Book Club. So...
Opulence is back, or at least it was on Tuesday night, June 18, when Puey Quiñones debuted his holiday 2024 collection at his atelier in Poblacion, where—with a mishmash of high and low, works of promising artists and found things, treasures unearthed from thrift shops, objets d’art by...
Photo shows (L-R): Saffron dining room with pool views, Spanish beer at Enye and Aka Private Room Cebu is always a good idea, if you want sun, sea, sky, and sand without leaving the city, without really being away from it all. It’s a good weekend breather, whether for a two-day break or an...
Dads are different now. I’d go as far as saying that men are different now. As a result of decades or centuries of struggle for gender rights and equality, where women—and the LGBTQ+ community—have been historically the ones struggling, fighting, the men aren’t exactly the oppressors...
AN EXOTIC FLAVOR Tinunis, more known as bopis, is a dish made of minced pig's lungs and heart (Photo fooddudeph | Instagram) I am writing this in the small hours of the Philippines’ 126th Independence Day. That’s because I am reminded of a dish that made such a mark on me when, in July 2022, I...
What is quiet luxury? It’s a trend, if we are to be reductive about it, which has been presented so loudly as a seasonal preference on the catwalks of Paris, Milan, London, and New York since 2023. ired with luxury, it acquires a meaning that seems more rarefied, speaking of character and...
What Ponce Veridiano started to build 10 years ago, just a hundred meters or so from his first selfbuilt home in Nagcarlan, was a dream he initially planned to take his time building. He is hesitant about calling it a dream home because, as a “home builder,” this frustrated architect, at 64, is...
VOLCANIC AMBIANCE Calma was inspired by Taal Volcano in creating Lava Rock Weekends out of town are more fun now that Asador Alfonso, open only for the time being on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays, is included on your list. Just a little over 70 kilometers away from Metro Manila, it’s a...
