Best Eats Of The Week: March 12
This week is all about New York-style tacos, fresh ravioli with runny yolk centers, luscious biko, seafood and champagne brunches, and more
Part of my job as a food editor is eating and drinking my way through a huge variety of stuff. That means I get to discover some of the most amazing edible treasures the city hast to offer, including some new products that are just about to hit the market. Allow me to share my 15 favorites of the week, all personally tried and tasted. Just click through the gallery below and who knows? You might just find your next true love.
Delicious Discoveries
Delicious Discoveries
Basque Cheesecake Bites by Eat Monmonmon
You don’t need the excuse of a special occasion to treat yourself to a box of @eat.monmonmon’s cup-sized burnt Basque cheesecakes. Creamy, laced with notes of caramel, they’re available in three sizes, though we really like the personalized minis that you can devour with minimum guilt. We also like how @eat.monmonmon practices sustainability — ingredient packaging is sent for upcycling or to be used as compostables. Ask about the limited edition flavors, too. To order, DM @eat.monmonmon on Instagram or call (0917) 857-2312.
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Brie Pie by Laguna Cake & Co
When a grazing box is too grand, but you still want to celebrate in a simpler vein, this is the solution: The Meant-To-Brie Party Box contains this Brie Pie topped with cranberries, walnuts and rosemary, with a serving of crackers. Just open a bottle of wine and you're ready to celebrate. Available in different serving sizes. Laguna Cake & Co also makes delicious caviar pie. To order, DM @lagunacakeco on Instagram.
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Pancit Canton Fiesta Cake, Astoria Plaza
If you don't have a sweet tooth, like me, this is the celebration cake for you. Pancit Canton Fiesta Cake has a wall of lumpiang Shanghai surrounding a bed of pancit canton topped with big chunks of crisp lechon kawali. Bold Pinoy flavors, great presentation. Order from @astoriaplaza. Photo @astoriahotelsandresorts
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Pepperonley Stuffed AF Pizza, Crosta Pizzeria
Took us a while to finally try Poblacion’s trendy pizza joint — and we’re loving it. Check out this Pepperonly Stuffed AF Pizza, with mozzarella and pepperoni on top of homemade Italian plum tomato pizza sauce, and a spinach and artichoke stuffed crust. It’s so good! They’ve got vegan pizza, too. To order, DM @crostapizzeria on Instagram. We highly recommend you order in advance because their pizza is so good that they run out!
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La Felipa Homemade Cookies
These homemade cookies are delightfully chewy with a nice grainy texture and restrained sweetness. There are five flavors to choose from: the Original Recipe with gooey chunks of chocolate, a subtle Matcha Green Tea, buttery White Tsokolate, and an elegant, bittersweet Double Cacao. They come eight cookies to a box, and available in half and half flavors.
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Egg Yolk Ravioli from Noodle Lab
Fresh pasta aficionados, rejoice! You can now order fresh pasta delivered to your homes, ready to cook. Noodle Lab serves up a variety of fresh pastas, including this giant ravioli with creamy spinach ricotta filling and a runny egg yolk center. The menu includes pasta variants like linguine, tagliatelle, and pappardelle. Classic egg pastas, squid ink pastas and pasta noodles and special filled pastas that need to be ordered a week in advance.
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New York-inspired Tacos from Taco-Mata Cloud Kitchen
New York City is a true foodie melting pot, so it’s no surprise to find unconventional eats like these New York-inspired tacos. The Harlem has a filling of buttermilk fried chicken on a bed of homemade slaw, muscovado sugar, crushed peanuts and green sauce. The Soho has butter-seared steak au poivre on a bed of caramelized onions, slathered with brandy-infused peppercorn sauce. The rest of the menu reads like a foodie’s wet dream. To order, send a DM to @tacomata.mnl on Instagram or order online through the link below.
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Biko by Mayor Biko
Not a misspelling of the name of Pasig’s beloved mayor, this is a new local business centered around that classic Filipino kakanin, the biko. @mayorbiko makes this sexy-looking biko with glutinous rice, brown sugar, coconut milk, topped with a thick layer of gleaming golden latik. The flavors are fantastic. The latik is so good that we tried to beg for more. To order, send a DM to @mayorbiko on Instagram. They process orders at the end of each week.
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Karaf Coffee
Even for someone like me who adores the entire process of brewing coffee, there’s something fun and freeing about Karaf Coffee’s boxed java. The sleek packaging travels well and is easy to use, the coffee is made from locally-sourced arabica, and the drinks are obviously crafted with care. The boxes arrive chilled, in two espresso-based flavors: Clean Black and the non-dairy Dirty White. Just the thing when you’re on-the-go and longing for a caffeine boost to share with your buddies. To order, DM @karafcoffee on Instagram or order online via the link below.
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Bicol Express Longganisa by Que Rica
If you love Bicol Express, like I do, you’ll be thrilled at this longganisa, one of five new products that Que Rica developed while in quarantine. Each juicy piece is generously stuffed with chicken meat, coconut milk, salted baby shrimp and a whole lot of aromatics. I had this for breakfast and fell in love. Follow @querica.ph to find more delicious Bicolano products. Order online through the link below.
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Chingolo’s Striploin Burgers
It’s hard to beat the classic appeal of a well-constructed burger. We’re definitely crazy over Chingolo’s Striploin Burger that features a 100% Argentinean striploin patty, spicy chimichurri, balsamic onions and garlic aioli on a potato bun. Order for pick up or delivery from @chingolo on Instagram, or send a Viber of WhatsApp to (0917) 620-2443 Check out the rest of their products on their website.
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Sarsa Kitchen’s Sisig Pizza
Sisig on pizza is a really, really good idea especially when made by a chef as adept as JP Anglo! Available only on Sundays at #MakatiStreetMeetRada. Look for the Sarsa Kitchen space and order this pizza. It’s baked on site and will come to you all hot and yummy.
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Seafood Brunch at Dr. Wine
If you’ve missed having long, lazy brunches on the weekends, you’ll love Dr Wine’s Seafood Brunches available every Saturday and Sunday. Fine de claire oysters, razor clams imported from France, live Maine lobsters, crabs, mussels and shrimps, salmon rillettes and more. Every order comes with artisan bread, pots of salted butter and assorted sauces. Open a few bottles of champagne. Easily the most indulgent, sexiest meal of the week. For reservations, call (0917) 563-8811 or DM @dr.winemanila on Instagram.
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Oscar’s Crispy Dried Beef Tapa
When tapa has been slowly and carefully made, you can really taste the difference. Oscar’s makes beef tapa following an century-old recipe and only using lean beef from free-range cattle, whose meat is low in fatty tissues. The meat is lightly seasoned with rock salt, then sun-dried until it turns crisp, almost crackly, like bacon. Serve it with rice and fried eggs, dip it in vinegar, or even munch on it like chicharon. It’s wonderful. To order, send a DM to @oscarsdriedbeeftapa on Instagram.
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Chef Chele’s Pastrami Sandwich
It takes more than 15 days to make Chef Chele Gonzalez’s New York-style brisket pastrami sandwich, with all the curing, cold and hot smoking, and roasting that he puts the meat through. Then he makes the bread and pickles using organic flour and carefully chosen cucumbers from his partner farmers. We didn’t know all the care and hard work that went into every single sandwich. We only knew that our eyes rolled to the back of our heads at the very first bite and we forgot that we had an extensive vocabulary, so we could only say: “oooooh!” Available on weekends at #MakatiStreetMeetRada or order from @delibychele on Instagram. You can also put in an order online through the link below.
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Lead photo: @oscarsdriedbeeftapa, @karafcoffee, @mayorbiko, @noodlelab.ph, @eat.monmonmon
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