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Bacolod Food Chronicles: Cafe Bob's

Before heading to Bacolod, I was told of the places/restaurants that I should visit. Cafe Bob's was somewhere on the top of the list.

Cafe Bob's is along Lacson St. and it's this wonderful glass establishment that takes advantage of the sunlight. Their interior was cute - it was like one of those small cute cafes except it was big. Troll.


My eating companion, Cafaye
Sweets

Sweets

Red Velvet Cake
Their food was meh there was nothing new, interesting and highly exciting about it. Especially the frappe that I ordered. If I remember it right, it's a coffee-based drink with Oreos blended into it. I took a sip and no Oreos in it. If only I knew that they meant Oreos will be used to garnish the drink, I would have ordered something else.

It wasn't all that bad though, their Red Velvet cake was good. Although I'm still on the look out for that perfect Red Velvet, this can be a basis for when I taste other Red Velvet cupcakes or cakes. The prices though were a bit cheaper than it would be in Manila but compared to other cafes in Bacolod, Cafe Bob's would be on the slightly expensive side. It was worth a try. I would definitely go back and try their other pastries and pizzas.

Bacolod, wait for me! lol
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Happiness in a cup

Last June 7, 2012, I was invited to the Coffee Academy event over at the Center for Culinary Arts-Manila. It was like a graduation and launch all rolled into one. The Coffee Academy will start to offer short courses on Coffee, Espresso Making, Barista Skills, etc. by July. Before they open these short courses to the public, they gathered up 20 professionals in the field of culinary and trained them. They would later on be the trainers of Coffee Academy, Philippines.

Since the event was all about coffee, there was unlimited supply of coffee for two hours. If only hyperacidity did not get the best of me, I would have drank more. :)




Cappuccino
The Coffee Academy tied up with Boyd's Coffee - for their equipment and coffee beans. They used Midnight Blend for all the coffee and I must say, I like this mix. It's probably how they extracted the caffeine out of the ground beans but it was sweet enough to drink alone. Or maybe it was just me and my liking for things on the slightly bitter side.

Of course coffee needs to go with food. Hahaha. So Cravings provided the guests with a finger food.

Kani Salad + Chicken Empanada

Tuna Pesto Pasta w/ Roasted Veggies

Brownie + Revel Bar + Cream Puff
It was quite an odd selection of food since not all of it went with coffee. The kani salad and chicken empanada were good and tolerable with coffee. Then came the weirdest food - the pasta. I don't know if  the dish turned cold because it took the waiters a long time to serve it or it is supposed to be cold. Nonetheless, it was horrible. I had a bow tie or two then left it on the table. Afterwards came the pastries~~

Latte Macchiato with pastries
My last cup of coffee, a latte macchiato which I intended to eat with those pastries but the moment I took a bite of the brownie, I regretted helping myself with these. Maybe it's just me but I found these pastries too dry and it barely went well with my coffee. -_- How sad could that be, no good food with coffee. :(

Well, the food wasn't the highlight of the event so I guess CCA and William Angliss did a spledid job with the launch! :) I'm quite excited for the Coffee Academy to open, I will definitely enroll myself in a course. mihihihi
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Coffee, cake and popularity

I recently went to Bacolod to visit my dad. I was told that there are a lot of pastry shops, coffee shops, restaurants and what nots in Bacolod. When I got there, it was true. There was A LOT.

I'll be posting more about it later with photos for the mean time, I came across the Starbucks in Shangri-la.

This sort of makes me excited, Starbucks is getting a new look! I wonder if they'll be going for a hospital themed cafe.
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Coffee, tea and happiness

I'm quite a big fan of tea. I love my tea plain and hot, iced or with milk pearls and sugar. FOr some reason, tea is one of my happy drinks - these are drinks that up the mood whenever I feel down or meh.

It's been months since Hollys Coffee opened and I barely try their coffee there - I guess it's because I'm always on a tight budget. Hollys Coffee's drinks are different from the Starbucks beverages that I have been accustomed to. So far, I've only tried five of their drinks. In all fairness, their prices are alright knowing the quality of their coffee.

My first favorite drink is their REAL BELGIAN CAFE MOCHA. This was simply amazing! I'm a huge fan of Cafe Mocha and I'm very particular with how it is made and the moment I took a sip, I fell in love. It was like the Belgian chocolate was making love to my taste buds. :3

Another favorite drink of mine is their GREEN TEA and PEPPERMINT TEA


Peppermint Tea
Though I really wanted to buy a box of tea, they didn't sell any. :(

Their green tea is different from the other green teas that I've tasted, most of the green teas I've had had this nutty flavor to it but theirs was somehow smooth~

On the other hand, their peppermint tea is nothing really special, Mint Teas are one of my favorites and this one was just alright, it wasn't anything that really stood out. :)

I shall wait for that shipment of tea from Korea! Hihihi :3
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Coffee and make up

I love my Mocha. I don't drink plain coffee but I love drinks with coffee in it. So far, my favorite mocha is the one of Starbucks' because my taste buds don't find anything weird when I take a sip - unless the barista got my drink wrong.


Last week, I went to Serendra to meet up with Guia for a free make up workshop that I happened to stumble upon on Boy Kuripot's blog ( I love how he posts contests and workshops! ). While waiting for Guia and for the time, I went around Serendra looking for a coffee shop that I know not of - I didn't want to go to Starbucks, Seattle's Best or Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf since I always go to these places. Then, I came across Echo Cafe:


Echo Cafe

Mocha P85
The place was cute, they had a small cafe inside a small shop. I sat down in the middle of organic products and it felt quite peaceful since it was a small place, there wasn't much noise. I ordered myself a cup of their mocha and when it arrived, I thought that it was cute, with the artsy fartsy presentation of their drink. I took my first sip and.. boy was I disappointed. I thought that there was a thin layer or foam so that the barista would be able to doodle on it but NO. My cup of mocha was composed of almost 1/2 foam and the other half mocha - this made it difficult for me to drink my mocha. I was not happy at all with my mocha but it was alright, at least I had the chance to chill in a quite place.


After I finished my drink, I went to meet Guia for our free workshop.


Free Make Up workshop in Pure Beauty by MUD

Guia♥  
The workshop ran for an hour and Reiva Cruz - a make up artist from NY, was amazing! I love the way she gave the workshop because she was just really chill. I should really invest more on make up and practice on my face. Hahaha
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