What's on the Menu: Five weekends of Food Adventure at McKinley Hill

MANILA, Philippines - Taste the flavors of the world for only P600 via Venice Piazza’s popular Food Adventure promo. Fourteen restaurants offer dishes from appetizers to desserts. Sample the cuisine at Ramen Bar, which serves karaage and kakuni buns. Get your Food Adventure passport for this weekend night promo at Venice Piazza, McKinley Hill, Fort Bonifacio. Promo runs until March 31. For information, call 709-0888, 709-9888 or 0917-8380111.

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Here's the meat: Cumin pork ribs at Komrad Mao

Cumin pork ribs at Komrad Mao

Komrad Mao’s Hunan and Sichuan Kitchen takes pride in its cumin pork ribs which is braised pork belly with preserved vegetables.Komrad Mao is at the second floor, Veranda, Eastwood Mall, Eastwood City Libis, Quezon City. For information, call 921-3440.

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A must try: The Spanish garlic chicken at Lorenzo’s Way

Lorenzo’s Way at Boni High Street

Lorenzo’s Way is now at Bonifacio High Street Central in Bonifacio Global City. The new outlet opens two years after the first Lorenzo’s Way in Greenbelt 5. Lorenzo’s Way serves dishes that have become known in such popular LJC restaurants as Café Adriatico, Bistro Remedios, Abé, and Fely J’s Kitchen. It has a spacious dining area that can seat 80 guests. It has three function rooms, each good for 10 guests; when taken together, the function rooms can accommodate as many as 36 guests. Guests who prefer to dine al fresco may do so at the terrace dining area, which can seat 64 guests. Some of the dishes at Lorenzo’s Way include costillas de ternera guisada, braised beef short ribs in wine sauce; Spanish garlic chicken, de-boned chicken baked with a marinade of garlic cloves and olive oil; braised lamb shank with cranberries, honey and onions, a whole lamb shank braised till tender in a wine sauce; and seafood couscous, couscous served with clams, mussels, squid and fish fillet cooked in a seafood saffron broth.

Lorenzo’s Way is at Greenbelt 5, Ayala Center; and Bonifacio High Street Central, Bonifacio Global City, Taguig City. For information, call 0927-476-9460 or 522-0403.

Time for celebration: Plan a special graduation party at Discovery Suites.

Special graduation packages at Discovery Suites

With graduation and prom seasons in the offing, Discovery Suites will make available a celebration package inclusive of all the basics of an event: floral arrangements and centerpieces for all tables, a round of soda or iced tea, buffet centerpieces and buffet labels, complete light and sound system setup, interactive photo booth (good for two hours), and thoughtful prom/graduation tokens. This package also includes an overnight stay for two in a one-bedroom suite with buffet breakfast at Restaurant 5, access to the Balance Lifestyle Fitness Club and swimming pool as well as a 10-percent discount on room rates for your party guests.

For more information, call 719-8888/914-9888 or e-mail events@discovery.com.ph.

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Hats off to the graduates: Graduates get specials rates at Diamond Hotel.

P6,800 Diamond room package for graduates

Diamond Hotel salutes graduates with a luxurious city getaway. For as low as P6,800 for a Superior Room, the achiever gets a free room upgrade to a Deluxe Room with buffet breakfast for two. This graduate’s room package includes free three-hour Internet access, use of Health Club and Spa facilities, 20 percent off on massage services and reflexology and 50 percent off on beverages at Sky Lounge and Poolside Bar.

Celebrate with your family and friends with lunch or dinner buffet for four at Corniche; or set lunch or dinner for four at Yurakuen Japanese Restaurant and get a free gift certificate for an overnight stay in a Superior Room for only P9,888.

Diamond Hotel Philippines is at Roxas Boulevard corner Dr. J. Quintos St., Manila.

For information, call 528-3000. 

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Choco lover’s treat: The choco sans rival at Goldilocks

Choco sans rival from Goldilocks

Goldilocks offers its latest product: the choco sans rival, three delicious wafer-thin layers of sans rival shells, ensconced in luxurious butter crème, liberally drizzled with chocolate, and sprinkled with delightful cashew bits.

For delivery, call 888-1-999.

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Not just pizza: The chicken-pork adobo pizza at Resorts World

Chicken pork adobo pizza at Resorts World

Resorts World Manila’s offers its signature dish — the “CPA” or chicken-pork adobo Laguna cheese pizza. The hand-tossed pizza crust has chicken and pork adobo strips on a bed of melted mozzarella and Laguna cheese.   The pizza, a popular dish around the world, serves as a platform to introduce Filipino adobo to the world. Pizzasta and Bar 360 are two of the many dining outlets at Resorts World Manila.

For information, call 836-6333 or visit www.rwmanila.com. 

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Here’s the beef and more: The Sizzlin’ Pepper Steak pasta at Sizzlin’ Pepper Steak

Pepper steak pasta at Sizzlin’ Pepper Steak

Sizzlin’ Pepper has unveiled four new pasta pairings. The Sizzlin’ Pepper Steak pasta has been re-imagined with peppered noodles. It is loaded with sizzling hot, thinly sliced beef marinated in a special yakiniku sauce with fresh linguine pasta. The all-new buffalo chicken pasta has spicy buffalo chicken cutlets topped on a bed of fresh fettuccine pasta in rich blue cheese cream sauce. The chicken mushroom pesto ravioli has pillows of fresh ravioli filled with chicken, mushroom and cheese and tossed in a basil pesto and topped with shavings of Parmesan cheese and chopped cashew nuts. The grilled vegetable lasagna is loaded with veggies grilled and layered in creamy sheets of fresh lasagna and garnished with chopped parsley.

Sizzlin’ Pepper Steak is at Alphaland Southgate Mall, BF Homes, Glorietta 5, Harbour Square, Festival Mall, Newport Mall, Eastwood City, Robinsons Galleria, SM Fairview, SM Megamall, SM Mall of Asia, SM North Annex, TriNoma Mall, Venice Piazza, Ayala Center Cebu, and Robinsons Summit Ridge Tagaytay.

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