L&S Spotted along Rue Bourbon Passing a Good Time!

Lettuce Says,

When couples go on a staycation within Makati City, one panics for searching a great place for dinner. In the case of Lettuce and Sunrise, that one's me! (Always!) After scourging google, I came up with Rue Bourbon Bar and Restaurant in Salcedo Village.

Rue des Bourbon, French for Bourbon Street is the main inspiration of this bar and restaurant owned by celebrity Jodi Sta. Maria. I love "The Originals" tv series which is in a mardi gras setting of New Orleans. This is one of the major tourist destination in Louisiana where the bars and pubs lined at Bourbon Street snoozed in daytime and came to life by sunset to an all night drinking and partying through great music and southern food.

Yours truly being a part of Makati's workforce, I very well know how to abuse our bodies and minds during the daytime, then long for some alcohol fuel after office hours. Sometimes, you just got to grab a beer and quietly chat with your colleagues and friends away from the hustle and bustle of the metro. Little did I know there is someplace like this within the city! 

We went to Rue Bourbon on a Saturday night. The surroundings were quiet and only a few tables were occupied with mostly foreigners. The warm lights greeted us as we go over their menu. 

They have a second floor with lounge chairs and tables great for groups.

Chandelier Love

Their extensive list includes steaks, ribs, cajun sea bass, blackened fish which instantly piqued our interest. They also have pasta, burgers, and sandwiches. And of course, they have a wild array of cocktails and beers. Finally, we decided to load on meat and sample their bestsellers.

Bourbon Barbeque Ribs (Solo PhP295)

Hickory barbeque glazed tender pork ribs with choice of dirty mashed potato or jambalaya rice. 

The sauce was great and flavorful but the meat itself was quite dry and tough. Hope they can improve this to a fall-of-the-bone version.

The mashed potato deserves a close up photo. This was very chunky which I liked which didn't need a lot of gravy.

Rue's Roasted Angus Beef (PhP420)

A special Angus Beef belly cooked to perfection served with hash brown and buttered veggies.

At this point, we came to realized that the ribs and roast beef shared the same sweet demi glazed sauce. The hickory sauce certainly blended well with this than the pork ribs. The beef had a strip of fat and tender ligaments that I enjoyed to my preference.

To accompany our meats, I ordered this hard ass...

Caramel Big Ass Beer

This bad boy received a lot of mixed reviews online, but for me a liter of this caramel flavored beer made me soo happy that night. I love how the slight bitterness of the beer was tamed by the sweetness of the caramel. Girls would definitely love this! I will drag the peeps at work just for this golden fluid and to try some some of their wild exploding fireworks cocktails and gunpowder drinks. Hmm got you interested, right? :)

How Big Was Thee Beer?

Ze Sleepy Husband Who Drank 3 Gulps and Left Everything to Ze Wife

Lettuce and Sunrise successfully emptied Rue Bourbon's plates and big ass mug!

It's your turn to try Rue Bourbon guys and tag us with your empty plates as #myemptyplates it is that simple! :)

My Empty PLates

Remember Rule No. 1: No Leftovers

Rue Bourbon Salcedo Village
@ruebourbonph
Ground Floor Aguirre Bldg.
108 HV Dela Costa cor. Tordesillas St., Salcedo Village, Makati City
Opening Hours: 11am-2pm; 5pm-2am (Mon-Thurs), 6pm-2am (Fri-Sat), Closed on Sundays
PhP 500 per pax

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Don Henrico’s @ Festival Mall

Hall of Famer – Pizza Haven

Dec09

Lettuce Says,

Sunrise and I went to Festival Mall Alabang for some last minute Christmas shopping rush. And after much walking, searching and thankfully ended up buying all gifts for our loved ones, our aching feet led us to Don Henrico’s.

Don Henrico’s 10 inch Supreme Pizza (P280)

Clap clap clap! I’ve found the perfect pizza! (so far, for me)

Stringy mozzarella – check

Fresh Veggies – check check check (everything tasted fresh even the olives!)

Meaty Goodness – check

Crust – big check!

Why big check for the crust? I’m not really into crusts of pizza because it’s really just bread for me, but this is just the right crust that I love!

Baked Ziti in Three Cheeses (P280)

We ordered baked ziti in share serving and here we go again, just like with the Angus Pizza of Sbarro, this is heavy! The pasta was baked to perfection with beef and mushroom. The mozzarella is still stringy (messy but fun!) when I ate it. I hope they would have potpourri herbs too in the future. The fresh garlic bread is so yummy as well.

Oven Baked Ribs with Fries and Buttered Corn and Carrots (P195)

We know that Don Henrico’s is known for their pizza and pasta, so it’s a gamble for us to have tried this. The meat is too dry, stringy, and bland for me but the barbeque sauce is an instant hit.

We are so wickedly full by finding another Hall of Famer and found ourselves eating half of the pizza when we got home and still saying ahh uhmm yumyum...

Sunrise Says,

When the plate of baked ziti arrived at our table I was already hungry, but the eyes always eats first.  I was looking for some color, yet it was served plain and straightforward that the chopped green basils are noticeably few. It was overwhelming in meat and mushroom though, and for a fact that I love cheese, it was already a feast for me. I kept on craving for more herbs to add flavor to it, but O.K., they served it with good garlic bread. It’s a heavy meal.

A common Filipino would order a cup of rice with an entrée but good thing I did not order one for this Oven Baked Ribs with Fries and Buttered Corn and Carrots. It was too bland and dry, but it was cooked well that you can easily cut through the stringy fibers of meat. I mean, how could I think of rice on this entry, it really won’t match at all! ;)

I know that you should always give options to your customers.  I know that because I have worked in a customer oriented environment, and if I was given that option on how this entrée should have been cooked, I would have it cooked with that sauce that was paired with it. It was a nice, flavorful sauce, which they can really boast of. Anyway, as for standards sake, maybe it was really meant to be served that way.

Hail to the fries and buttered corn and carrot! I hope they serve more, as a side. We’ll it was just a siding, but still, I hope they served more.

There are only few pizza makers in the Philippines that I know that serve excellent pizzas. Well, this one, is just exceptional! The flavor was like a mixed, cultured way of representing the Filipino-Italian taste.

It was like home baked straight from your mom’s oven, prepared with love and gusto. The vegetables were fresh and chunks of meat and mushroom were grand. Luckily, more cheesy surprise for me! On this pizza, complementing the crunchy texture of its crust, was that the tomato sauce and stringy mozzarella. Wow, pizza to perfection!  …and it was still perfect when we ate the leftovers at home.

Verdict - Hall of Famer – Pizza Haven


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