Monaco Suites de Boracay

You think I’m happy because there are so many emotions I choose not to show.

Nonetheless, I was a happy pauper who found sanctuary in contemporary Mediterranean-inspired villas with a dolphin-shaped pool and a live cinema of water sports adventure fit for a prince.

Happy New Year!

Pangihan Cave

“They know where happiness lies, not in a cave,
but in love and the freedom to give and take
what has been there all along.”
- Amy Tan

With stalactites, stalagmites, crystals and a plethora of bats, every chamber of Pangihan is a world of wonder.

From Caticlan airport or jetty port, Pangihan in Malay, Aklan could be reached via 15 minute tryke ride (P100). Entrance fee is P50 and hiring of tour guide costs P150. Spelunking in Pangihan makes a good prelude to your Boracay escapade.

Tourne by Chef Sandralyn Hataway

Tournée (pronounced tour-nay) is French for the word "turned." The term refers to a method of cutting and peeling root vegetables into oblong, seven-sided football-like shapes. Aside from its aesthetic element, the classic French technique helps vegetables to cook evenly.

Soyami chips with salsa

Tourne house salad

Ostrich pesto pasta

Red velvet cake

Dear Chef Sandra,

Most of the time, I use carrots and potatoes as main ingredients whenever I cook, but I never tournee-d them.

I love the whimsical feel of your place, the eye-candy writings on the wall, and the clean open kitchen. I love how you and your team painstakingly prepare and arrange the food; they not only made my palate merry but my eyes, as well. But above all, I love how you unabashedly showed love to your staff. I was secretly watching when you gave them presents and I saw how such small gesture made them feel happy.  

I was there a day before Christmas. And I didn’t regret that a few hours before my flight for my holiday break, I chose to spend it at Tourne.

They say money can’t buy happiness. But it can buy your red velvet cake and that is like happiness.

Frenz Fries

Tourne

Fort Strip, 7th Ave. cor. 26th St.

Bonifacio High, Taguig City

Tel. No.: 555-0267

Sometimes, you need to forget people you love just so you can go on living

“To live in this world, you must be able to do three things – to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.”

- Mary Oliver

Balay Dionisia

A cozy place with crystal clear swimming pool, jacuzzi, and amoy-simoy ng Pasko na hangin, Balay Dionisa is ideal for romantic get-away or intimate private party like our traditional PPRD Christmas Party.

In behalf of PPRD, we thank the generosity of our hosts, Nicole, and Mr. and Ms. Pangilinan. The place is cute and the food (especially alimango, hipon, tionalang manok, chicken inasal, tinapa, buko pandan with lychee and Tequilla Rose) made us all merry-full. Happy holidays!

Balay Dionisia Private Resort

Cecilia De Montagna Exclusive, Purok 1

Pansol, Calamba City, Laguna

By reservation only

Tel. No.: 0915-8675705, 0919-3342213 or (046) 437 2916

Casa Roces

No matter how rich you are, you can never buy back the past.

But if you have a little money, you can always step back in time as you enter the almost one hundred year-old ancestral home (turned café and gallery) of the Roces clan, the country’s print media mogul who built their empire on La Vanguardia, Tribune, Liwayway, Daily Mirror, and the Manila Times.

Warm breaded goat cheese salad

Oven baked salmon Wellington

Pan fried sole ala beure noisette

Bulalo steak ala pobre

Basque apple tart

Casa Roces

1153 J.P. Laurel corner Aguado Sts.

San Miguel, Manila

Tel. No.: 735-5896, 708-4020

Restaurant 101, Enderun

It's not who you want to spend Friday night with,

it's who you want to spend Sunday-brunch with.

Restaurant 101

Enderun Colleges, 1100 Campus Ave.

McKinley Hill, Fort Bonifacio, Taguig City

Tel. No.:  856 5000 loc. 101