Circles Breakfast Buffet

Because of our different schedules, we ended up deciding on a breakfast buffet to celebrate the recent movements at work and largely because of its proximity to where we work, we all agreed on Makati Shangri-La's Circles Event Cafe.

I was immediately drawn to the Chinese station, I was feeling dimsum and congee for breakfast at that time.  

I got all the more excited when I saw the spareribs, sadly, it was bland.  Analyn was right when she said that I should skip it because it doesn't have any tausi (black beans).

Here are a few of the selections that I liked:

Fresh sushi and sashimi

Smoked fish

Eggs cooked just the way you like it.  It might not be obvious but there's a tray of bacon just beside the eggs. Perfect combination. 

Doughnuts

Turon and croissants - another perfect combination?

Native desserts with a lonely tray of red velvet cupcakes

Fresh fruit smoothies

And waffles!  

Having tried Heat's breakfast buffet several times, I find it hard not to compare the two.  I prefer the ambiance of Circles, but I'd go for Heat in terms of variety.

Circles Event Cafe 

Makati Shangri-La

Ayala Ave corner Makati Ave

Makati City

Cafe Provencal

Cafe Provencal has been an all time favorite restaurant but I realized that I haven't been back since December of last year and I suddenly miss it. I crave their red grape shake, the pesto mayo dip and all the other savory and sweet stuff that they offer.

For the mean time, the photos below should tide me over.

We normally finish this plateful of crunch bread and ask for seconds before our orders arrive. The dip is very delicious. 

Red grape shake that's very refreshing.



Em-J's favorite, chicken caesar salad



Truffle pizza





Creme brulee, courtesy of Choy, he had it sent over when he found out that we were dining there.



Calamares and Mozzarella with dip medley





Rustic pumpkin soup



French onion soup



Pasta a la Cafe Provencal



Happy diners

Boracay Food Trip - Boracay (3 of 3)

Since I love taking pictures of food, I felt that what we all ate at Boracay deserves a separate entry. Since Em-J and Danny were flying in from Singapore and was terribly missing Jollibee's chicken joy, this is what we had as our first meal at the airport.



When we got to the island, we had Andok's and Jonah's avocado milkshake.





Dinner was at Cyma. I know that this restaurant is quite popular but I've eaten there twice and I have yet to be wowed. As with this dinner, all our orders were mostly misses.













Breakfast at Shangri-La's Vintana was the best. We never got tired of the food for the 5 days that we were there.











They also have a special area for the little kids. It was a nice touch, I found myself mostly going back to this station because of the mini pastries.







What I really really liked about them is that the fruit juices that they have are all fresh. No to powdered drinks or juice from concentrate.





We also found ourselves having lunch at two of Manila's popular food chains, Pancake House and Shakey's.

Best gravy ever.





I was craving for mojo's while Em-J was craving for their fried chicken. We ordered the set meal but the spaghetti and the pizza both were left untouched.







A trip to the beach would be incomplete without a halo-halo which we had at Mang Inasal.



When Danny got sick, Em-J and I stayed behind at the hotel and had dinner at Solana. I had the salmon and Em-J had the jumbo prawns. When his order arrived, I was blown away at the size of the prawns. We also ran into Chef Bruce there of AFC who was there for a Lee Kum Kee event.











My two favorite meals there were the one from Mañanas and surprisingly, Hap Chan.

The tacos were very very good, we had to just order another plate.





Everything that we ordered at Hap Chan were so good although I can really taste the MSG but who cares?