Tag: Metro Manila
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Silingan Coffee: This Cubao Expo Café Remembers Lives Lost
Silingan Coffee pays tribute to the victims of the war on drugs. Run by the families left behind, this hidden gem in Cubao Expo serves coffee with a cause, providing a sense of community for the victims’ kin and a refuge for those who resist injustice.
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Starry Night: Celebrating Our Graduates at Casa de Polo, Valenzuela City
It was a night of elegance and celebration as our school held its first-ever Graduation Ball at Casa de Polo in Valenzuela City. The historic venue, once a hacienda house, became the perfect setting for an unforgettable evening of joy and reflection on the students’ future.
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24 Hours in Poblacion, Makati: Flings, Filters, Feeds
Explore the charm of Poblacion, Makati, through a day in the life of a woman coming to terms with middle age. Sip coffee at Commune, savor vegan Filipino dishes at Cosmic, and unwind at retro diner Filling Station. Poblacion provides a blend of experiences, whether you’re visiting cultural attractions or enjoying the buzzing nightlife.
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Dine In (For the Last Time): Kermit Manila
Not to mention the increasing number of deaths caused by COVID, this pandemic has delivered a significant damage to many enterprises, particularly small independent ones. While the food sector as a whole has survived, particularly those that can adapt to cloud kitchen concepts and online delivery, others have not been so successful. One example is…
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Dine In: Bellini’s
I’ve been to Cubao a lot of times before but not in the area behind the Gateway Mall. It takes a weird idea to just do that. Since movie theaters are not yet allowed to operate in Metro Manila (probably in the whole country as well), I and a friend decide to watch Luca on…
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Dine In: Izakaya Kikufuji
In all those times I worked in Makati, one of the things I always planned but never managed to do was eat in Izakaya Kikufuji. It’s a popular spot in Little Tokyo among office workers, but for some reasons, I never really got around to dining here even if I have eaten at some of…
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A Tour of Malabon’s Heritage
Malabon is a neighboring city of Valenzuela, though surprisingly, aside from passing through McArthur Highway in Barangay Potrero, I have never explored much of the city. The city even launched a tricycle tour that takes guests around its old houses and a number of dining areas some four years ago, but I never got around…
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Taking Steps toward a Semblance of Normalcy
It’s been almost two months since I was discharged from the hospital. Except for a couple of trips to the hospital for follow-up checkups and to Makati to take care of some unfinished transactions with my former workplace and my bank, I mostly stayed at home. Obviously you can only distract yourself so much inside…
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Who is the Filipino?: A Tour of the National Museum
Who is the Filipino? It’s a question with no simple answer. It has been a contentious issue, in fact, that the eligibility of one presidential aspirant based on her citizenship caused a furious debate. Is it by race? By birth? By the language spoken? By a shared culture and history? By a proclaimed love of an arbitrarily…
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Marikina: More Than Shoes
Marikina, the easternmost frontier of Metro Manila before the roads spill onto Rizal province, has always registered to me as far-flung, in part because I rarely ventured in these parts growing up, plus the LRT-2, which connects the city to Manila, didn’t exist until around a decade ago. But the city quickly progressed over the last two…
The Tourist Gaze 