Today, CDP Restaurant at Power Plant Mall, Rockwell (right next door to Mamou Too) soft-opens to the public. It is the first partnership between chefs and restaurateurs Malou Fores (Mamou, Mamou Too, Recover Food), Katrina Alcantara-Kuhn (Mesclun, Chuck’s Deli) and Kristine del Gallego-Locsin (formerly of […]

I just came from Edinburgh and London for the 2014 Diageo World Class Global Finals, the most prestigious mixology competition in the world. (Look out for my Philippine exclusive in the October issue of Lifestyle Asia!) After World Class, I took a few days off for holidays. Here […]

When was the last time you did something for the first time? I’d been seeing that on my social media feeds, and I’m proud and happy to say that my relatively recent trip to Club Paradise in Coron, Palawan had quite a few “first’s.”

I finally got to try the hottest restaurant in town tonight, Black Bird– Chef Colin MacKay’s latest outpost at the Nielson Tower by Ayala Triangle Gardens in Makati. (Case in point, I bumped into loads of people I knew just even by the lobby entrance; […]

I love special limited edition collaborations between fashion and beauty brands. You literally get the best of both worlds– the season’s colors, plus a designer clutch/ bag/ tote/ purse to keep for life! Some of my favorites that I’ve kept over the years:

I still can’t believe I have my own jewelry line! Sometime last year, Denovo Diamonds proprietors, husband-and-wife team Caryll Martinez-Benitez and Jose Benitez, and genius brand architect Amor Maclang of Geiser Maclang invited me to design a line for them. They wanted to make Denovo different from the […]

Chef J. Luis “Chele” Gonzalez keeps giving us more reasons to come back to VASK.  There are 27 new tapas on the menu and I’m going to share with you my Top 5 favorites: 1) PINTXOS (Traditional)- Gambas Aioli (P95/ piece) and Roast Beef + Cheese Emulsion + Bell Pepper (P95/ piece) […]

Happy Independence Month, Philippines! Philippine Independence Day (Araw ng Kalayaan) is celebrated every June 12 . To mark this occasion, the Peninsula Manila spotlights the very best of Filipino cuisine with its (annual) two-week food festival by Chef Myrna Segismundo from June 16 to 29, 2014.  The […]

Rambla opened last year at the Joya Building at Rockwell. No bias, it’s become one of my favorite places for dinner, cocktails, quiet wine nights (and fun, lively wine dinners!) not just because the owners are really good friends of mine, but because the food, cocktails, ambiance and […]

I was walking by the Bugis/ Little India district in Singapore when an interesting church caught my attention. It was a Catholic Church that read Our Lady of Lourdes, yet it had its name inscribed in Tamil underneath.