Chocolate Room with the Chocolate Chef at Marriott Manila's MCafe

During our visit at Marriott Manila for the brunch with the foodies, we get to experience their drool worthy Chocolate Room. Included at the Marriott’s Café Sunday Brunch Buffet package, this chocolate-all-you-can-treat features variety of chocolates that makes buffet experience more exciting.

My plateful of delightful chocolates!

Marriott Manila Sunday Brunch Buffet

Last week, together with fellow bloggers, we visited Marriot Hotel at Newport City Complex, Pasay City to try their Marriott Café’s Sunday Brunch Buffet. The recent expansion on their buffet spread selections led foodies to a festive brunch which made rising early that day well worth it.

(One of my many plates) Perfectly seared foei gras, medium well rib-eye steak, grilled calamari, mashed potato, and grilled vegetable.  How’s that for a brunch?

How Do I Want My Valentine's Day to be Special

In a perfect world, every single person would have a grand time with their significant other especially during Valentine’s Day.  Everyone can feel like a princess with her prince, a queen with her king, or even a damsel in distress with a man who can save her.  Valentine’s Day can be a celebration of hearts beating as one.  It is the time when perfection is illuminated through hearts that doesn’t carry a single scar.

But we are not in a perfect world.

In reality, hearts can be broken a thousand times over.  Wounds can take a lifetime to heal.  Valentine’s day, well, it can be a reminder that not everyone is blessed with a significant other.

Scar.  I know we all have that.  

I for one am not exempted with the endless nights of crying, forgetting, and healing.  I have been scarred for countless of times.  Some have already healed, while others I still carry in my heart.

But I believe that scar is beautiful because it carries a meaning.  

Sweet Valentine Treats by Max's Restaurant and Max's Corner Bakery

I know I’ve been delinquent in posting updates here in my blog for the past five days, but I sincerely apologize my dear readers as I am currently nursing a mean flu. I am on my sick bed while I am writing this but I don’t mind at all because our friends at Max’s Restaurant, home of the “sarap-to-the-bones” fried chicken has sweet news, worthy to dish out.

Last night, February 7, 2011.  Max’s Restaurant launched its most romantic line of desserts just in time for the Valentine's season.  I give credit to my sister Eichel who attended the launching night full of sweet surprises and scrumptious Max’s dishes as they unveiled their sweet and heartwarming treats for their valued customers.

ITALIANNI'S Restaurant, Reacquainting with the Old Time Favorite

Way back when I wasn’t a food blogger yet, Italianni's was one of those restaurants I always go to whenever I am cravings for Italian food.  Way before I fell in love with Bellini’s and Amoroma, there’s Italiannis to flirt my appetite and my palate with.

Then life happens.  I got into food blogging which led me into trying out different restaurants I haven’t visited yet.  For a while I wasn’t able to visit some of those which I used to frequent to.  That includes Italianni's.   But I always knew that whenever I want something relatively familiar to my palate, there’s always Italianni's.

Amidst trying out and discovering new places to dine in, there are moments when I knew by heart that I need to revisit my old time favorite.  Good thing that when a good friend and fellow food enthusiast I dearly call Tito Bong, who came from Qatar visited the country weeks ago, I was once again led to Italianni's.  It was a simple albeit wonderful evening shared with good friends I haven’t seen for quite a while, in a restaurant I dearly missed.