ELIAS by Chef Florabel Co-Yatco
What to eat? Where to eat? It's so hard to please your parents... Nothing expensive, not too exotic, not the usual, no more long walks please?
Ha! Thank God for Filipino food, thank God for reknowned chefs like Florabel Co-Yatco changing the landscape of local cuisine into a not so ordinary fare.
We, a Filipino-Chinese family, found ourselves in a turn of the century local restaurant, and was amused to see fellow chinky-eyed locals coming in to enjoy dishes that we seldom see on the family dinner table.
We shared a PLATTER OF GRILLED SEAFOOD and MEAT and everyone had a fair share.
The BINAGOONGAN RICE is a good combination of flavors that complements the grilled entrees. You might want to add more rice though, we're just cutting back on starch due to high sugar levels in the family. And did I mention that they serve really good CORNICKS for appetizers?! We asked for more and mixed it to the rice - Crunchy!
And look, they take a souvenir photo per table! What a great way to remember this dinner!
Ha! Thank God for Filipino food, thank God for reknowned chefs like Florabel Co-Yatco changing the landscape of local cuisine into a not so ordinary fare.We, a Filipino-Chinese family, found ourselves in a turn of the century local restaurant, and was amused to see fellow chinky-eyed locals coming in to enjoy dishes that we seldom see on the family dinner table.
We shared a PLATTER OF GRILLED SEAFOOD and MEAT and everyone had a fair share.
The BINAGOONGAN RICE is a good combination of flavors that complements the grilled entrees. You might want to add more rice though, we're just cutting back on starch due to high sugar levels in the family. And did I mention that they serve really good CORNICKS for appetizers?! We asked for more and mixed it to the rice - Crunchy!
We had room for desserts, haha, I miss all the good ol' TURONs (banana fritters wrapped in thin rice paper) w/ ice cream; there were choices of SUMAN w/TSOKOLATE (sticky rice to be dipped in thick local cacao - think fondue), SORBETES (local ice cream made w/carabao milk and sold on the streets by vendors called the Sorbetero)....
But decided on tall glasses of HALO-HALO (mix-mix if literally translated to English, which is truly a mixture of a lot of stuff like corn, ube, gulaman, leche flan, beans, etc)....
And SUMAN w/MANGA (sticky rice delicacy paired w/ a piece of ripe mango). It's a balancing act between the mild taste of suman and the kick of the tangy sweetness of the mango - just right.
ELIAS Restaurant at the Fort
Upper Ground Level, 30th Street corner 7th Avenue,
Bonifacio High Street, Bonifacio Global City, Taguig.
call (02) 546 7977.
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