Cocktail Recipe 15 Halloween Cocktails Inspired by Filipino Horror Stories Get your sexy or scary costumes ready and welcome Halloween with boozy treats from the country’s top bartenders. From doppelgängers, demons, evil dwarves, halimaw sa banga, kapre, aswang, mambabarang, and white ladies, our local bartenders created fun recipe serves inspired by Filipino folklore and horror stories using local ingredients. Get inspired and you might get some ideas for your Halloween soiree. … Read More
Bar Find You’re Missing Out If You Haven’t Been to Agimat in Poblacion Location: 2/F 5972 Alfonso cor. Fermina Street, Poblacion Contact Number: +63917 530 2580 Operating Hours: 6 pm to 2 am Price per head: Php900+ per person for food and drink Signature drinks: Ritual ng Agimat, Perlas ng Silanganan, Anting anting ni Malvar, Sumpa ng Kagandahan, and the degustation menu with drinks highlighting langka as the main ingredient. If you frequent Poblacion, … Read More
Brand News Who will be crowned the first Glenfiddich’s Most Experimental Bartender in the Philippines? Glenfiddich’s World’s Most Experimental Bartender competition was a much-anticipated event that gives importance to surprising innovations and new collaborations using Glenfiddich 12. Fans of the brand and the bartenders, as well as members of the beverage industry and whisky enthusiasts, flocked to CCM Events Center at Century City Mall last September 3 to witness the semi-finals of the competition. Related … Read More
Bar Find Gallery by Chele: Local Flavors, Local Love Gallery by Chele, the newly opened restaurant of Manila-based Spanish chef Chele Gonzalez, has a warm and beautiful space complete with a bar, lounge, and restaurant. Touted as the next evolution of Gallery VASK, the internationally renowned restaurant that had opened in 2013, Gallery by Chele embraces its tropical Filipino and Southeast Asian milieu in presenting the region’s multifaceted flavors … Read More
Behind The Bar 2017 Diageo Reserve World Class Philippine Champion Royce Pua Competes in the World Class Global Final in Mexico For the last five years, Filipino bartenders have competed on the world stage for the Diageo Reserve World Class Bartender of the Year Competition. In 2015, Philippine champion Kenneth Bandivas (ABV) was named the winner of the “Around the World” challenge during the global finals with his Ampalaya Marula and Zacapa cocktail. Last year’s contender Michael Tubiera (Rambla) brought a … Read More
Cocktail Tapa Old Fashioned A classic Old Fashioned with a meaty twist. This sweet and savory cocktail might put off vegetarians, but for those who partake of meat, the use of tapa fat wash with Jack Daniel’s adds a different dimension to the usual beverage. It’s what you expect a good Old Fashioned to be, with the added layers of flavor. Definitely worth a … Read More
Bar Find Hawaiian Song-Inspired Cocktails at Papa Loa Location: 109, Shoppes at Forbeswoods Heights, Rizal Dr, Taguig, Metro Manila Operating Hours: 5 p.m. to 2 a.m. Price per head: P400 and above Signature drinks: Little Grass Skirt, Lost Twang, Around the Asian Seas, and Woozy Waters Bowl There are a lot of new speakeasy bars and posh restobars popping up in BGC, but you have to try so many cocktails before you … Read More
Behind The Bar Tammy Tavera: Head bartender at The Bonbon Club Head bartender The Bonbon Club G/F 16 Tropical Palms, Gallardo Street, Legaspi Village, Makati City, 1229 Metro Manila Like a lot of bartenders, Tammy began working behind the bar in college. He was drawn to bartending because of his interest in the history of spirits and how they are made. He eventually became part of the team of Moët Hennessy, … Read More
Cocktail Miles Negroni Recipe by Tammy Tavera, Head bartender The Bonbon Club G/F 16 Tropical Palms, Gallardo Street, Legaspi Village, Makati City, 1229 Metro Manila Named because it took years and lots of walking while thinking to get to this version of this drink, it is straightforward and bitter (it is a Negroni, after all) with a hint of vanilla and mint (from … Read More
Behind The Bar Lennon Aguilar: Head Bartender at 1824 Whisky and Cigar Bar Head Bartender and Operations Supervisor of Food and Beverage 1824 Whisky and Cigar Bar, Discovery Primea 6749 Ayala Avenue, Makati City 1226 Metro Manila Avid Beatles fan Ildefonso ‘Lennon’ Aguilar acquired his nickname when he was in a Beatles cover band in college. He started in the beverage industry as a barista for a major coffee shop. After a few … Read More