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Desserts at Chateau Hestia

May 15th, 2008 7 Comments

After our delicious and hearty Vietnamese lunch, our troop headed down the road for dessert.
Just around the bend from Bawai’s is Chateau Hestia, a restaurant and B&B named after the Greek goddess of the hearth, which specializes in European cuisine. Johannes Zegethofer, one of the owners of Chateau Hestia, offers his favorite European dishes [...]

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Discover Something Deliciously Different!

May 12th, 2008 No Comments

Just like I did!
At the start of summer, Greenwich launched the Greenwich Overloaded Pizzas, which boasts of having the most toppings on any local pizza available. This new product line also signaled Greenwich’s expansion into rolled edge thick-crust pizza, with the 2 new flavors serving as it’s maiden offerings. I got to sample these [...]

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Cupping at Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf

April 20th, 2008 5 Comments

Let’s start off with a little trivia I learned at the event: Tea is the 2nd most consumed beverage, next to water, world wide. And here I thought it was beer!
Moving on.
Cupping is the term used for what a tea taster does as he evaluates the tea. And at the Tea Appreciation Seminar, we [...]

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Appreciating tea with David DeCandia

April 18th, 2008 5 Comments

The Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf invited bloggers for a night with tea connoisseur and Master Tea Blender David DeCandia for a session on tea appreciation.

Unless you count iced tea, tea drinking hasn’t caught on the same way coffee did with the influx of coffee shops all over the Philippines. Tea, however, is starting to [...]

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