Intercontinental Hotel Cafe Jeepney

For Pau's despedida, we went to Intercontinental's Cafe Jeepney for dinner, c/o her Ninang who gave her five discount vouchers (thank you ninang!!). If you're a yuppie, it's very much accessible: it's along Ayala Ave and beside SM Makati, a stone throw away from MRT Ayala Station.

me and Pau. I'll miss you :(

Buffet time according to Pau was 6:30 to 10:00, but we were the first in the place at 6 pm and were allowed to eat already.

A discount site said original price is around P1,600 and the voucher is at 50%.

Ambiance was very nice (well, it's a hotel). The buffet selection is not that extensive, though, and not as culturally diverse. There's grilled food (salmon, another fish, squid, chicken inasal, pork, a longganisa-like lamb) and main course station, a sushi bar (!), a bread station (the hotel-type breads, and one hand-made pizza), two salad stations, and one looong station of deserts! There's a choco fondue, halo-halo "sahog", crushed ice, lots of cakes, panacottas, diced fruits mix (with mangoes, kiwi, dragonfruit, watermelon), and shredded melon in milk (yummy!!).

The good thing about not-so-much food is that you can say you substantially tried all, and eat a lot of your buffet favorite.

'twas fancy, indeed ;P

Chicken and corn soup and Mushroom soup.
Tried both- just the right temperature Goldilocks would want.
The taste: amazing! especially the Mushroom soup (below)

this baby's really creamy and tasty, and just in the right consistency.

Want fancy? This baby's fancy.
That yellow one to the left is potato swimming in molten mozzarella cheese.  Just freaking su-weet!
Beside it is the sweet-sauced roast chicken barbeque. Good as well.

To the left is lamb, i forgot what it it's called, but it's one of the grilled courses in the buffet.
To the right is the chicken inasal, which after roasting seems to be swimming in butter. Tasty :)

From the bread station, the handmade pizza (lots of pork xP),
the soft roll (nice), the hard roll (didn't eat it all),
and bread with cheese inside (kinda Medieval style-thumbs up for me :D )

the usual.
but the sashimi (both tuna and salmon) are cut into thick cubes, so you can really taste the firmness and the freshness of the sashimi. Thumbs up!

having some more ;P

Medium rare roast beef (thumbs up),
beef in japanese sauce (forgot the name),
and tempuraa!!

the fruit mix: yes, I really picked out the kiwi and the dragon fruit.
There was also a mango platter and it was really really sweet :)

my second take of shredded melon: i added nata de coco (from the halo halo station) and added some kiwi and dragon fruit. Heaven!

My last pick: mango cheesecake.
Mango was sweet and cheesecake was not that overwhelming.

Overall, since this was for free, I'd say it's really sulit. Can't say about the real and discounted price though, but if you're after the deserts and the fancy ambiance I'd say go for it.


Here's us!

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chef d'angelo's buffet

For lunch we tried out Chef d'Angelo's pizza, pasta, soup, and salad buffet that costs P150 at Glorietta 5. Pay an additional of P125 for unlimited fried chicken.

I'll be blunt about it- it really wasn't worth I paid for. Pizza, which was really small, tasted very simple (wasn't expecting anything fancy anyway). Mushroom soup was really salty. But, the salad dressing was really nice- somewhat garlicky and not so sour. I don't like mayonnaise, so I'm very picky with the dressing's taste. As for the pasta, I actually didn't eat any, because my officemates didn't like it that much.

As for the chicken, the 125 price was ok, only if it could be a stand-alone option (it's really just an add-on). Tasted like the normal fried chicken.

The ambiance was a little emo for me (Rivermaya and the likes). Service was a little slow, since there wasn't much people anyway.

the salad part of the buffet

the salty mushroom soup

four-cheese pizza (cold due to waiting of customers, nyehehe)
and the salad which was unexpectedly good

i ate three big breast-part chicken. good enough for me :)

Overall, it's a 2.5/5 for me. The mozarella was a real lifesaver :)

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birthday buffet

What better to do on my birthday but to do something that will add the happy: eating. There was "nothing spectacular" for my birthday this year, only the usual: eat then movies, while eating- again. It's really our comfort activity; doesn't take much effort, and is fun in its own right.

I did not really used to capture the food we eat, but I guess from now on I will, so that I can look back on how much I've eaten, and to share as well (the pictures, that is, haha).

Destination: Yakimix Trinoma

Price: P595 (I think. Not sure actually, but it won't be far from there.)

I used to doubt the number of dishes they have as compared to Macapagal, but it turns out it's almost the same, and it's less cramped. Though bad timing would have it, there wasn't tuna sashimi, but the salmon was heavenly nonetheless, and was more than enough.

Note: picture was taken as a duplicate.

Clockwise from uppermost left:
Korean Spicy Beef- was heavenly, and really spicy
Some beef stuff- tasty, like smoked beef
Black pepper chicken- we preferred the beef. would eat something else, hehe
Peking Duck- uber delicious! tasted like holiday ham, only it's not pork!
potatoes- don't know why i took those haha
fishballs- tasty too, i kind of put some korean beef sauce in it to add flavor

Spinach stew: I was skeptical at first and was afraid to do a Popeye and pop something else, but it 
tasted like the usual Nido Soup, and looked like it. Works for me :)

Took a little of some, just to try them out. Nothing tasted weird. They were quite heavy though, 
so eat them at the latter part of your stay, than chowing them first.

One happy customer! Lotsa sushi!

The cuttlefish has always been a must cook for me; twas really tasty and easy to eat 

(compared to tia pusit)

And more sushi :)

The heavenly salmon sashimi! I can never get tired of this one. (and the tuna too!)

Yeah, we like our food Japanese ;P

Vanilla Ice Cream!! Me favorite! The sprinkes are amazing too ;)

Mango Ice Cream for Angelo. Dragon fruit tasted really nice! Not too sweet for anything, 
sort of like watermelon and cucumber combined, with lotsa eatable seeds.

Ah, dear food :D

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