Toast is the Food Section of On the Rocks.  It contains the latest gastronomic feasts you can sink your teeth on.  Soothe your palate and try any one of our recommendations!

 

 

Section Writers:  Grace Sucgang

                          Anna Kristine Pasco

 


 

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  Three for Satisfaction
  BY ANNA KRISTINE PASCO
 

 

Hectic schedules, wavering promotions, hot-tempered bosses, and traffic jams just before reaching the street of your destination--- this is a typical example of a very bad day when everything seems to fall out of pieces and deliberately ruin the whole plan for the entire evening. Yet, these must not spoil everything, especially when it is treating yourself with the most delicious and sought-after meals, offered by different restaurants, bars and grills along the metro.

New restaurants are emerging with menus that will surely stimulate your appetite. Amongst all of these are Pier One, Dencio’s, and Gerry’s grill, which offer mouth-watering food with reasonable prices, and turn each dining experience into a pleasant one.

PIER ONE
 

With their authentic shipping-container-vans-remodeled-as-restaurants piled up in the metro, to their experience-by-the-beach branches in Subic and Boracay, Pier One indeed offers fine dining in a casual atmosphere, inevitably enjoyed by families and friends. Their menu is a mix of traditional Filipino, Asian and International recipes prepared using the freshest ingredients. They have also adopted centralized outsourcing to ensure the quality of food they serve, and also to deliver the genuine Pier One experience in all of its branches.

The foods to die for are their Sinigang Na Hipon, Crispy Pata, Kare-kare and Sisig. New dishes such as Oriental Prawns, Chicken Rolls, Chicken Carbonara, Oyster Platter, Spicy Shrimp Cocktail, Bacon Asparagus, Sushi, Sashimi are also hits among customers. A specialized menu for kids is available so that children can also have and enjoy the Pier One experience .

Pier One now has 10 branches all over the metro. It has also a branch at the Ayala IT Park in Cebu. With a budget of Php150 to Php250 you can stir up your appetite and say “All Aboard!”

DENCIO'S GRILL
 

“Bringing the BARRIO to the Metropolis” is what Dencio’s grill is for. The Filipinos’ natural fondness to eating out and socializing gave birth to this unique and distinct restaurant concept founded by Dennis Mariano and Dennis Nakpil. With this, the restaurant started to serve Filipino dishes in a more comfortable set-up with a “barrio-like” ambiance in garden-inspired dining areas.

Even the name of the restaurant is truly Filipino. Dencio is the traditional Filipino counterpart of Dennis, the common name of the restaurant’s founders.

Their first branch was opened in 1991 in Katipunan, Quezon City, and has since boomed to 25 outlets conveniently located all over Luzon. Dencio’s is now managed and owned by Pancake House, a 100% Filipino owned publicly listed restaurant chain.

Like other resto bars and grills, Dencio’s offers food that will surely tickle the tastebuds of its Filipino customers. With food ranging from the usual Kare-kare to the more exotic Kalderetang Kambing, each dining experience becomes a unique one.

So if you have at least Php200 to spare, head on to the nearest branch of Dencio’s and prepare yourself for a meal where you can readily utter, “Rapsa!”

GERRY'S GRILL


Passion is where Gerry’s Grill started. The fondness for food of restaurateur Gerry Apolinario led to the birth of this homey restaurant with a fun, fresh and wholesome atmosphere.

Advocating good food and an entirely relaxing experience, every Gerry’s outlet looks and feels reminiscent of a tropical beach rest house--- natural, restful and unimposing. Each branch has touches of tree trunks for pillars, driftwood and bamboo for fences, wrought iron and wicker for furniture, and foliage, ponds and waterfalls for added ambiance.

Gerry’s Grill's first restaurant was born on Febuary 14, 1997 in Tomas Morato in Quezon City. To date, Gerry’s already has 32 outlets nationwide, plus two more in Union City and Artesia in the USA.

Two hundred to Php300 is enough to bring you pleasure and tranquility. Anyhow, “You’d STILL rather be at Gerry’s.”

From the three resto-bar and grills, “sufficiency” is not just the bottom line, rather it’s “satisfaction,”---satisfaction from great food, cool ambiance, and excellent dining. So forget everything about your bad day, and indulge yourself to pleasing and enlightening your palate.■

  

 


 

 
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