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Sometimes, you just have to go out of your way for the best coffee and dessert in town. Kohikan is the Diamond Hotel’s coffee shop, well-renowned for their award-winning ensaymada and rich, brewed-by-hand coffee made from organic coffee beans. Kohikan coffee blends are uniquely different from the Starbucks variety. There’s the Sumibi, their best-selling brew with an unforgettable aroma and distinct, bold and bitter flavor. If you like your coffee mild, the Kageboshi blend is roasted with coffee fruits to give you that natural, semi-sweet flavor. Finally, there’s the Emerald Mountain, made out of nothing but top quality beans with a twist of sourness and mildness.
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Tuesday Mar 25, 2008
To say that Mr. Kabab is one my favorite restaurants is an understatement. It’s the kind of place where, when you suddenly get the craving for their delicious chelo beef kababs, you would find a way to commute or drive there no matter what part of the city you’re at. Part of why I love Mr. Kabab so much is because of the price range of their food. Most Persian/Mediterranean restaurants will charge you an arm, a leg, and a pound of flesh for a dish, but a meal at Mr. Kabab will only cost you Php 70 – 90. This includes rice, a viand, and a juicy grilled tomato. And where else can you get a cold, creamy, yogurt shake for only 35 pesos?
If you ever pass by Mr. Kabab at West Ave, Quezon City, I highly recommend the dish I always get. The special chelo kabab is made up of two pieces of beef kabab smothered in garlic sauce and butter, two tomatos, and a cup of rice. Nowhere else will you feel obscenely full and satisfied for under a hundred bucks.
What I generally hate about going to big coffee chains like Starbucks and The Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf is how you have to pay over a hundred pesos for a small cup of their coffee, and then shell out thirty to fifty pesos more for something to eat. If you’re anything like me, you probably like having something sweet to chew on with your coffee but are too cheap to pay anything more than you already gave for overpriced coffee. This is why Singaporean coffee franchise KopiRoti is one of my favorite coffee shops of all time.
Not only does a cup of their brewed coffee only cost around 45 pesos; they also have these value-meal types where you can choose your beverage (coffee, tea, or hot chocolate) and along with something to eat. My favorite combination is Set E, a cup of coffee with condensed milk and a large coffee bun. The coffee bun is served to you warm, with a semi-sweet, crispy outer shell. Inside the bun is soft white bread with a pat of melted butter in the middle. The whole meal costs only 75 pesos and is more than worth the money you pay for. I wish KopiRoti had more branches though; the only one I know is in Blue Ridge, Katipunan, which is slightly inaccessible to public transportation.
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Saturday Feb 23, 2008
If you have so much work you feel like you don’t even have time for a healthy bite, take heart. People have been in this dilemma for centuries.
John Montague, the 4th Earl of Sandwich, is the 18th century counterpart of the workaholic urbanite. Too preoccupied by his commitments to the navy, politics and the arts, the Earl barely had enough time for a nutritious lunch out. His cook solved this impasse by presenting him with sliced meat inserted between two pieces of bread—the perfect meal as it required no utensils and could be eaten with one hand, leaving the other free to continue with his work. Soon orders for this dish, the frequent favorite of John Montague, became known as the “same as Sandwich” and then simply “sandwich.”
You don’t have to travel all the way to Manila if you’re craving for one of the Diamond Hotel’s giant ensaymadas or a slice of their super-moist chocolate cake. The Cake Club is the Diamond Hotel’s coffee shop and bakery, an ideal place for you to relax and enjoy a warm cup of rich-flavored coffee and freshly baked breads, cakes, and pastries. Expect to shell out a little more cash than you would at your typical coffee shop, but the goodies you’ll be getting are far from ordinary. The Diamond ensaymadas alone are delightful combination of cheese, ube, and cream and they’re so large, one esaymada is practically a meal by itself. Unlike most pastries, which start becoming too sweet when you’re halfway done with them, you’ll want to savor every single tasty morsel of the Diamond ensaymada.
John Montague, the 4th Earl of Sandwich, is the 18th century counterpart of the workaholic urbanite. Too preoccupied by his commitments to the navy, politics and the arts, the Earl barely had enough time for a nutritious lunch out. His cook solved this impasse by presenting him with sliced meat inserted between two pieces of bread—the perfect meal as it required no utensils and could be eaten with one hand, leaving the other free to continue with his work. Soon orders for this dish, the frequent favorite of John Montague, became known as the “same as Sandwich” and then simply “sandwich.”
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