For every celebrations, we can't help but treat our loved ones to something special. With a lot of restaurants catering different types of cuisines for pechant taste buds, it is still a shock that often we can't find seats on our favorite restaurants. It seemed that fellow foodies seemed to have linked minds and dine at a specific retsaurant at the same time.

Booking tables, specially on well known restaurants have been a headache. Good thing there's Eat out Manila app which takes care of this dilemma.


Eat out Manila is a booking/reservation app which helps you book tables at different retaurants all over the Metro. It was my first time being invited by Eat out Manila. The venue was at The Itlaian Market, Resorts World Manila. The Italian Market is one of the new restaurants who accepts table reserviations via Eat out Manila app.

The Italian Market is affliated with its sister company Murrays New Orleans. They offer heartful and savory Italian cuisine made by their Italian chefs. They are known for their brick oven pizza, which is a common way to cook pizzas in Italy


The store was big and had the al fresco feel despitebeing located inside Newport Mall. It resembles of that cafes and quaint restaurants you'll find in Italy. I'm more excited to try Italian pasta and pizza that night that my tummy is already doing backflips!. Here's some of the dishes served to us that night:

Pampanga is known as the Culinary Capital of the Philippines where you get to try the best and delicious home cooked dishes that we truly are proud of. So if a kapampangan restaurant decides to conquer the unsatiable appetite of the foodies here in the bustling Makati City, Who can resist it?

Apag Marangle is a paluto restaurant originating in Bacolor, Pampanga. What makes the restaurant quite famous is their farm to dining table concept. Basically, all ingredients were harvested fresh, cooked and served within the day. They were featured as top restaurant to try by one of the biggest lifestyle show in one of the leading networks. Their main branch is in Bacolor within a real-life palaisdaan while their second branch is situated at Marquee Mall Pampanga.


Apag Marangle recently spread their wings and braved the stiff competition here in the big Metro. They opened their third branch and practically first branch in Metro Manila. We were invited to dine and have a taste of what Kapampangan dishes are proud of.

Here's a feast of some of the dishes yo can try at Apag Marangle. (WARNING: Restrain yourself from drooling and licking the screen. ):

One thing you love about Japan is how there are a lot of cute cafes sprawled accross the city, enticing you to come in and take your time adoring their dainty cakes that goes well with their selected handcrafted coffee and teas.

It's that time of the year where all my favorite (tried-and-tested) products are on sale. Who wouldn't want to get their hands on everyday products that are half their price?

Nivea is one brand that had been close to my heart since my puberty days. It kinda had been my default must-have whenever I'm not into trying new skincare products.

The good news is from May 1 to May 9, all Nivea products are 50% off!! Yay!


And I didn't let that good deal pass. I rushed to SM Makati and checked out which products are on hand. Here are some of the products I bought:

Cooking has been a favorite hobby of mine. I remember those days when I try to read as much home cooking/recipe blogs on my free time, scout the cheapest and available ingredients and try to re-create dishes in my mini kitchen. You can check how this struggling home cook wannabe fared and how I was trying to improve and hone these skills as you browse through the archives of my blog.


With the rise of new technologies, cooking now has been a breeze. Take a cue from Samsung's newest appliances which caters to the busy young professionals. I was invited to Samsung's Cooking Workshop at the Gala Stars Culinary School. With the help of Chef Ernest Gala, chef-wannabes like me will have a hands on workshop with him to re-create three easy dishes with the aid of Samsung's newest appliance innovation, the Smart Oven.


Chef Ernest Gala welcomed us into his humble culinary school, Gala Stars Culinary Institute, to test drive what Samsung's Smart Oven can do. He prepared three different types of recipes that are so easy, even your kids can cook it themselves (of course, with proper parental guidance).