Dinner’s on Batch 27

Jude Bacalso 03/22/2016

THE REAL action was on the fourth floor, one up above the restaurant where we had gathered tonight. As Libia Chavez, Philippine School of Culinary Arts (PSCA) Executive Director herself escorts me to the kitchen, we were…

CEB at 20: Why I take Cebu Pacific personally

Jude Bacalso 03/08/2016

NO one has seen me in more incarnations than Lance Gokongwei. In the late 90s, I first met him in the boardrooms of JG Summit, the umbrella company of the Gokongwei group. I was always dressed in…

Of tennis virgins and flying balls

Jude Bacalso 02/16/2016

IN December of 2015, I sat through my very first tennis tournament. Well, not counting the one in high school when John Pages walked past in his tennis whites, those sinewy legs striding past confidently towards the…

Sugar, spice and everything nice

Jude Bacalso 02/16/2016

Mehl & Zucker makes everything from scratch “SO who are Mehl & Zucker?” I ask. If he wanted to laugh in my face, he kept it rather well. With the patience and precision of a baker, Antonius…

Shangri-La Mactan spoils you for choice

Jude Bacalso 02/02/2016

“OH nononono, these were made by the chef while waiting,” our server cheerily told us. We had suffered through horrible traffic from road closures in the city, and to make matters worse, the wind had descended determinedly…

What a weekend, eh?

Jude Bacalso 01/19/2016

FOR THOSE who have just been initiated into the phenomenon that is the Sinulog, the entire celebration is marked by Traslacion Friday (when the Holy Family is completed in a ritual that removed the real Patron Saint…

Where the boys are

Jude Bacalso 12/29/2015

WHEN I was 6, my milkshake brought all the boys to the yard. That, a game of jolen (marbles), contraband kakâ (spiders) fights and time on the monkey bars brought  us all out into the sun. One…

Delicious

Jude Bacalso 12/15/2015

Biggest H&M in the country opens in Cebu HUGE fashion news in photos. After all, what better way to showcase one of the world’s coveted fast fashion brands than imagery? I, for one, cannot wait for the…

#ConvertersEleague2015 champs celebrate at sea

Jude Bacalso 12/01/2015

BOUYED by saltwater and my arms around the outrigger, my head was raised at an angle to catch the rain that slid sweetly to wash away the brine on my face. Here we were, celebrating, and two…

Curiosity Got the Chef takes on Cebu!

Jude Bacalso 08/18/2015

For the entire month of August, Cebu takes centerstage as popular cooking show Curiosity Got the Chef (on Lifestyle Network, Channel 601 on SkyCable) does a foodtrip episode in our neck of the woods. I was honored…

Man and his meat

Jude Bacalso 08/18/2015

It’s mostly a male crowd on a Friday night at the Feria, huddled over a couple of glasses of wine and chunks of meat. And not just any other, Radisson Blu’s food outlet just upped the ante…

Panda pao-demonium!

Jude Bacalso 08/18/2015

Say all you can eat and the Cebuano is likely to say where? This time, the beeline extends to the island of Mactan and Shangri-La’s Tea of Spring. At only P888 for their dimsum specialties, this is…

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