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If you’d like to deviate from tradition for this year’s Noche Buena meal and try something different, a roast turkey might make a great main course for your late Christmas dinner. Most people opt to have their turkeys ordered from a store or a restaurant since attempting to roast one yourself could be too difficult and time-consuming, especially if you have other dishes to prepare and you’ve never roasted a turkey before. The biggest challenge to roasting a turkey is making sure that the meat remains moist while giving the whole turkey a nice, even roast. This is a trial and error thing that could take many Christmas dinners to perfect, and unless you want a roast turkey to be a staple of your Noche Buena, attempting to make one yourself might not be worth the time and effort.

Fortunately there are restaurants in the Philippines that provide roast turkeys just for the holiday season. Mario’s Restaurant (located at Tomas Morato corner Scout Gandia in Quezon City and along Session Road in Baguio) serves Butterball turkeys with or without stuffing for approximately 8,000 pesos (a little more expensive than a whole lechon paella). If you find that a little too expensive, you can also bring your own turkey and have them roast it for 500 to 700 pesos a kilo. Make sure you contact them at least three days before your Noche Buena dinner to give them enough preparation time.

Here is the price list

Roast Turkey (with cranberryy and gravy)

American-style bread stuffing at 1,250 pesos a kilo

Spanish-style Relleno at 1,150 pesos a kilo

Plain Roast at 980 pesos a kilo

Cooking charges if your have your turkey roasted at Mario’s

American-style Bread stuffing at 700 pesos a kilo

Spanish-style Relleno at 600 pesos a kilo

Plain Roast at 500 pesos a kilo

For more inquiries on pricing and their other holiday specials, contact Mario’s Restaurant by phone or by e-mail.
Mario’s Restaurant Tomas Morato
call 415-3887 or 372-0360, or e-mail mariosquezoncity@yahoo.com.

Mario’s Restaurant Baguio
(074) 442-4241 or e-mail marios_baguio@yahoo.com.