Mon, March30th of 2009
11:03 am
1st Quarter Restaurant Round-Up (1st of 2 Parts)
These are not new restaurants. If you’ve been reading this blog for some time now, you know that I don’t feature just-opened establishments because I think it’s only fair for them to get into their groove before being written about. Also, I do try my best now to visit a restaurant more than once to really get a feel of the place. However, I admit that it’s difficult to haul-ass back to a restaurant that didn’t leave a good impression the first time around.
Here, a list of my restaurants of the moment.


Based in Manila, Philippines, Dessert Comes First is a chronicle of the food-obsessed food writer, Lori Baltazar. This website is all about desserts, restaurants, coffee, and the pleasures of homebaking. Read more about me 
A friend has been transferred to Indonesia for work and though he talks about the subsequent loneliness there, I only half-hear him because my mind is on tempeh.
Brooding's a bitch.
I’ve long been wanting to get to the weekend market at the FTI (Food Terminal Incorporated) in Taguig but with my sense of direction (or pitiful lack thereof) being what it is, it was always a pipe dream.
It’s not often that the name of someone I meet rhymes with “dessert,†perhaps my favorite word in the world.
Consider this my invitation to you.
From macaroons we go to macarons.
This is what happens when custard meets coconut.

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