Sandwiches, coffee-to-go at Dusit Thani Hotel
MANILA, Philippines - Dusit Thani Hotel’s Dusit Gourmet brews its latest offerings — sandwich and coffee-to-go — available from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily.
Coffee varieties include latte, café mocha, espresso, café Americana, and iced coffee or just your traditional brewed or decaf. For bread lovers, choose from ciabatta with mozarella or smoked ham, rye with smoked or boiled ham; and baguette with Gouda cheese or smoked salmon.
For late night hunger, all sandwiches for take-out are priced at 50 percent off from 8 p.m. onwards.
Dusit Gourmet is located at the ground floor, Dusit Thani Manila. For reservations, call 867-3333 or e-mail dtmnfb@dusit.com.
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Pizza a la carbonara at Don Henrico’s
Don Henrico’s offers a wide variety of choices for everyone. Take your pick: mozzarella sticks, onion rings, nachos, chicken fingers, quesadillas, and potato wedges. There are salads with French, American, Mexican, and Asian dressings. Pizza variants have been created and molded to fit the Filipino taste.
Top choices include the Don Henrico’s supreme, seafood Romano, bacon cheeseburger, Buffalo chicken gourmet, and pizza a la carbonara.
Don Henrico’s has bigger-than-usual pizzas. The small pizza is 10 inches in diameter with generous toppings.
The medium size is 14 inches (which is the large size of other brands), while the large is 18 inches wide. Pasta servings are meant for two to three persons. The calzone and desserts are big enough to satisfy any hungry giant.
The Don Henrico’s Ristorante concept modernizes its signature nautical theme.
The first restaurant to incorporate this theme is the SM Mall of Asia branch, followed by Festival Mall in Alabang and The Terraces of Ayala Center Cebu and soon-to-open branches at Connecticut Arcade of Greenhills Shopping Center and Tomas Morato Avenue in Quezon City.
For information, visit www.donhenricos.net.
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Bagoong rice and catfish adobo at Sentro 1771
Sentro 1771 in Serendra takes the best of old favorites and adds a twist. Sentro’s bagoong rice is a meal in itself, with its hefty serving of rice sautéed in shrimp paste partnered with scrambled eggs, green mango relish and two kinds of meat.
The new catfish adobo flakes (adobong hito sa luyang dilaw then fried with yellow ginger till crisp) makes for a wonderful appetizer, along with the shrimp tops salad (fresh sayote tops with a light mayo dressing topped with shrimps, boiled eggs, tomatoes and onions). Sentro’s cheesecake is served with queso de bola (Edam cheese) and itlog na maalat on the side.
Sentro in Serendra serves a breakfast menu that includes whole wheat pandesal, brown rice for its champorado and arroz caldo, and organic eggs for all breakfast meals.
For details, call its new branch in Serendra, Bonificio Global City at 856-0581 or its GB3 branch at 757-3941 or SMS 0917-866-0449.
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Chicken Parmigiana at Sizzlin Pepper Steak
Sizzlin’ Pepper Steak offers yummy dishes to go with your all-time favorite Hamburg steak and Sizzlin’ Pepper rice.
Sizzlin’ Pepper Steak’s expanded selections include chicken Caesar salad (breaded and fried chicken fillets and Parmesan flakes on a generous bed of lettuce), kani creme salad (julienned cucumber and shredded kani, or crabsticks tossed in gossamer dressing topped with ebikko), chicken Parmigiana (a bowful of spaghetti with marinara sauce topped with slices of breaded chicken breast fillet and shavings of Parmesan cheese), fish n chips (perfectly seasoned fish fillet with potato wedges and your choice of 12 new dips and sauces).
Sizzlin’ Pepper Steak opened its new branch at Cyberwalk in Eastwood City.
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P399 lunch buffet at Red Crab Seafood Club
The Red Crab Seafood Club offers the widest array of seafood in a mouth watering buffet.
The lunch buffet is offered daily for P399 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. daily.
The Red Crab Seafood Club is located at the second floor, Greenbelt 3, Ayala Center, Makati.
For inquiries, call 757-4129, 757-4716.
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Four new seafood espesyals at Dencio’s
Dencio’s introduces its new Seafood Espesyals, four delicious new dishes perfect to share with friends and family.
On the menu are binawang na hipon (a platter of prawns with chili slices, fried garlic bits and chopped green onions), the pinaputok na apahap (fresh fish with special stuffing), pinaputok na pompano (grilled or fried in banana leaves), halabos na hipon, krispy bangus sisig (bangus flakes topped with crispy bangus skin served on a sizzling plate) and kilawing tanguigue (tanguigue chunks in a special vinegar mix pepper, onions and ginger).
