Buon Giorno!

Buon Giorno!

                 Buon Giorno is Italian for good day! Buon Giorno is also an expression or feeling you surely will have after dining at Buon Giorno café and bistro.

      Buon Giorno is a wonderful restaurant that first opened in beautiful Tagaytay. The scenery in Tagaytay was breath taking. While dining, you can see the smallest volcano in the Philippines, the Taal volcano. Buon Giorno Tagaytay is not only known for their beautiful cozy ambiance but also their great Italian food. They serve a variety of Italian dishes like pastas, pizzas, salads, soups, risottos, and many more. They also have a menu on Filipino breakfast like tocino, tapa, and others.

      I think that the only problem is that it was a bit far from Manila (my place of residence). BUT, today this problem has been resolved because Buon Giorno opened its second restaurant at Rockwell Business Center (beside Medical City).

      And because they opened a new restaurant my family and I decided to go. I could say that the view in Tagaytay is different, but the ambiance still radiates cozy Italian. During our dining experience we ordered the following dishes: Frito Misto de Mare, Steak Panini, Spaghetti Bolognese, Gamberretti e Funghi Ravioli, and lamb chops.

      The Frito Misto de Mare is like mixed seafood calamari. It is deep fried seafood (fish, mussels, shrimp, and squid) and batter. Buon Giorno’s Frito Misto is not soggy but is deliciously crispy.

The Steak Panini was good. It is a perfect meal but could also be a yummy snack. It is sided by fresh salad and potato chips.

Paninis :)

Pasta is my comfort food so allow me to generously describe Spaghetti Bolognese and Gamberretti e Funghi Ravioli. Spaghetti Bolognese in simpler terms would be spaghetti and meatball. I love Buon Giorno’s pastas because of their rich flavored sauces. The Spaghetti Bolognese has a tomato sauce base making flavors rich and creamy. This pasta dish’s key player is the huge yummy meatballs. These meatballs are made from ground beef with various spices that makes that meat so yummy. The Gamberretti e Funghi Ravioli also has a tomato sauce base mixed with seafood stock (I think?). The ravioli in this dish is stuffed with mushroom and shrimp filling (the reason why I think this dish has seafood stock). When biting into the ravioli you could clearly taste the wonderful marriage of the mushroom and shrimp. Oh… writing this makes me want to eat one now J.

Spaghetti Bolognese.... with lots-a-meatbalssss



Gamberretti e Funghi Ravioli



mmmm!!!! :)

My dad was the one to who ordered the lamb chops. It looked good and tasted good. It is accompanied by mash potatoes and mixed vegetables.

Delizioso

All this talk about Buon Giorno really makes me have a Buon Giorno.  So what are you waiting for?... have a Buon Giorno moment too. J

-Dot-


*for more information on their menu check this out:
http://www.munchpunch.com/restaurants/branch/menus/5066.aspx
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Great things can be found just around the corner...

Great things can be found just around the corner

[Patio Carlito & White House on the 84^th]

            A new restaurant and restobar just opened near our place. The name of the restobar is White House on the 84^th. This place serves great Filipino dishes with a twist. Some examples of their delectable dishes are: Picha pie (a Filipino twist on pizza) and Chicken Adobo Wings (a Filipino version of Buffalo wings). They also serve a variety of cocktails and liqueurs.

both found on the same corner

            Beside this new restobar is Patio Carlito.  It is a Filipino restaurant with a modern zing. It is located at 84 Sct. Tuason St., corner E. Lopez Sr. Ave., Quezon City, Philippines. 

menu cover

beautiful ambiance

            During my dining experience I was able to sample 4 dishes. The first dish was Kinilaw na Lamang Dagat sa Gata. Kinilaw is raw fish that was soaked (so that it becomes cooked) in vinegar. Lamang Dagat is the Filipino term for seafood and Gata is coconut milk. This dish was very good. It was spicy but the bite that the chili brought was so good. The next dish is Adobong Kangkong with Crispy Cuchinillo Strips. This dish was also superb! The Cuchinillo (chicharon) strips were so good and crunchy. I was also able to taste their Tagaytay Osso Buco. Tagaytay is a wonderful place in the Philippines and to fully understand what an Osso Buco is here is a link of an example recipe: http://www.monterey.com.ph/frenchPorkChopShanks.html. The last dish I tasted was Classic Lengua. Lengua is ox tongue. This was my favorite of the night. The creaminess of the sauce was just right with the meat of the dish.



Dish 1

Dish 2



Dish 4

Patio Carlito offers very good food at  an affordable price… this will surely make me come back for more J.

-DOT-



  

Myron’s Place: A place to be

Myron’s Place: A place to be

      Found in Greenbelt 5 (Makati, Philippines) is a wonderful place. A place were wonderful gastronomic experiences happen. This place is Myron’s Place.

            Myron’s Place or Myron’s serves fine American cuisine. Their menu consists of fresh salads, appetizing appetizers, mouthwatering steaks, scrumptious seafood, and so much more.   The place looks really nice and the food taste better than how the restaurant looks.

            During the noon before the New Year, my family and I were able to visit and dine at this delightful place. The place is quiet during lunchtime… so when we were there we were the only costumers they had. That afternoon we had a taste of four yummy dishes. The first was a plateful of Gratinated Mussels. It is an oyster topped with cheese, herbs, and spices then either baked or browned to let the cheese melt.

Yummy Oysters!

        The second dish was a bowl of creamy pumpkin soup. It looked really good and tasted so good. It was not a thick pumpkin soup but it was creamy and so pumkin-ny (not a word but it describes the dishJ).

SOUPerb!

 The next dish was a juicy well-done steak. It was so good… that I forgot the name of the dishJ. The steak was also served with sauteed garden vegetables, baked potato, and a choice of three House Sauces: Shiraz Cabernet-Shallot Jus, Brandy Pepper or Mushroom Sauce. I must say that the sauce allows you to taste the stake in different perspectives… which is awesome! J

The Steak with vegetables, baked potato, 3 tasty sauces

       The last dish we ate was the U.S. Certified Angus Corned Beef and Cabbage. It was the real deal corned beef (not the canned type). It tasted good.

The corned beef

            The dining experience was lovely and I sure will return to that wonderful place… Myron’s Place J.

~Dot~

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Happy New Year! ....(updates)

Happy New Year Everyone!

I hope everyone will have a prosperous new year ahead.

One of my new year's resolution, btw having a new year's resolution is great because it means you are setting a goal for yourself, is to blog more :) So hopefully... this year i will blog more on great stuff :)

Another updatre is that i promised to give an update on the UP Christmas Celebration... ummm .. i did go and i took pictures... lots of them... but sadly the camera i used got stolen and the memory sd card is missing.. [bummer!] so here is a link to UP's site and it pretty sums it all up.. : http://www.upd.edu.ph/~updinfo/index156.html


So I'm looking forward to more fun and exciting finds this year!

-DOT-