I went to IHOP in Araneta to have dinner with office friends then went to The Perfect Pint in BGC to have a round of drinks with more office friends. Traveled from Cubao to Taguig during the Thursday night rush hour and I did not mind it at all!
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| Why do I have the feeling we have the same things on our plates? |
Why did I start it all off with dinner at IHOP Araneta, you ask? I work there. I spent half a day working before kicking off my weekend vacation. Don't call me a workaholic as my officemates will tell you that I absolutely am not. Leaves are just scarce at work nowadays.
We love pancakes and I also love IHOP's hash brown (or at least did) so it was a consensus from the group that we eat here. The almost utmost similarity among the orders was not.
The sausages tasted like something you can buy from the grocery, same goes for the small piece of ham, and the hash brown I had so loved just a month ago has changed. It was not the generous amount of julienned potatoes cooked with a copious amount of butter. It was not very thin pieces of potatoes that tasted like they were not cleaned well before cooking. They also tasted pretty bland. But I didn't particularly mind as I was having a good, lighthearted moment with my peers.
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| Not a food stylist and that's why. |
At least the buttermilk pancakes still tasted the same. I started off dousing it with the strawberry syrup then worked all the other three (blueberry, butter pecan, and old fashioned) into the mix. I got a very sweet treat but it all just looked weird.
And so then (a few hours later) I found myself in a cab, semi-stuck in EDSA traffic. Needless to say I was the last to arrive in Perfect Pint and my companions have already sent a couple of messages asking me where I was.
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| They already started once I finally got here |
The Perfect Pint shows the spotlight on the products of local craft beer brewers along with the culinary chops of an all-Filipino kitchen staff. The place has all the makings of a sports bar, including TV screens showing Basketball stuff, but the ladies still like having their nights in here. On our table alone I was with two professional women who relented to my request that we all have a break from our normal lives.
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| Started my night off with this Joe's Brew Fish Rider Pale Ale |
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| And ended it with this Pivo Praha Weizen |
It was exhilarating being able to talk light topics with people you're used to talk to everyday about work-related stuff everyday. It's a way to remember that you're just normal everyday people who just want to have fun, eat good food, and drink awesome beer.
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| The Freshly Baked Caramel Brownie Smores with Rhum Raisin Ice Cream would like to wish you a good day. |
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