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Owl City live in Manila

March 10th, 2010

Owl City Manila

Venue: Owl City Live in Manila
Location: Trinoma Mall, north parking roof deck
Show Date: Sunday, March 14, 2010
Starting: 8:00pm
Tickets: Prices are PhP 1796 (Gold, standing) & PhP 3696 (VIP, standing), for more information call 910-3000 or 632-7762 – 634-8238 and you can also reserve here
Website:

Owl City is a new pop and new age rock band with big hits “Fireflies”, “Vanilla Twilight”, and “Hello Seattle”, so if you have freetime this coming Sunday night then you should checkout this hot new rising band!

You can see the Owl City official website at http://owlcitymusic.com/home.aspx

If you go to the show, please send us your pictures!!! We will post ours too

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California Pizza Kitchen

March 9th, 2010

California Pizza Kitchen Glorietta 3
Open Daily 11:00am to 12:00am midnight every day
Website: http://www.cpk.com.ph
Call: Glorietta 3 (893-9898 / 893-9999), Alabang Town Center (850-5771 / 850-5782), Shangri-la Plaza Mall (687-7841 to 42), Greenhills Promenade (725-7377), Trinoma (901-3881 to 82), Rockwell (895-3447 / 895-5250) and Greenbelt 5 (401-7160 / 572-5965).
Address: Glorietta III, Phase II-A, North Mall, Ayala Center Makati City 1200 (there are 7 locations in various areas around Manila and central Luzon, see the locations here)

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California Pizza Kitchen

The Menu: They have lots of various appetizers, soups, salads, great pizzas, they have my personal favorite pizza in the Philippines! They have Neapolitan pizza, and rare pizza like Thai Chicken, Adobo Chicken Pizza, and more specialties, pastas, focaccia sandwiches, desserts, lots of thai dishes too, smoothes, and many more beverages
What I Ate: I enjoyed the regular pepperoni pizza VERY much, it’s my favorite pizza in the Philippines
The Staff: They were all smiles, very nice and friendly. The office-in-charge at the Glorietta 3 CPK is Danilo M. Balaysoche I, restaurant manager, can email him at dbalaysoche |@| cpk.com.ph
The Bathroom: Clean and properly upkept

Conclusion:

Extras: Have wifi available

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Harbor View Restaurant

March 9th, 2010

Harbor View Restaurant
Open Daily 11:00am to 12:00am midnight every day
Website: http://www.harborview-manila.com
Call: 02-524-1532
Address: South Gate A, Rizal Park, Manila, Philippines

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Harbor View Restaurant is a wonderful seafood restaurant and grill restaurant located near baywalk, with a great veiw of Manila Bay Sunset, Harbor, and Roxas Blvd. Shoreline. The food is great and the atmosphere is the best you can find for an evening out with friends, wife, girlfriend, or family. Harbor View is famous, and you’ll see when you first walk in a ton of pictures of famous actors, athletes, presidents both foreign and local.

The Menu: They have lots of filipino and international foods, and specializing in seafoods and charcoal grilled entrees. They have a wonderful choice of foods. Some of their famous dishes are Sugpo Sa Taba Ng Talangka, king prawns cooked in crab roe, Nilasing Na Hipon, deep fried drunken shrimps, Steamed Lapu-lapu, live grouper steamed Chinese style, Live Crab cooked with spices, and many more
What I Ate: I had the tuna gyoza, they were big and pretty good. My main entree was the grilled salmon and it was probably the best grilled pink salmon I’ve ever had in Manila, I’ll definately order it again!
The Staff: A+ for friendliness
The Bathroom: The CR here is very nice, big, and clean

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Bedrock Bar and Grill

January 7th, 2010

Bedrock
Open Daily 6pm – 3/4pm (depending if customers or not)
Website: NA
Call: (632) 522 – 7278
Address: 1782 M. Adriatico St., Malate Manila, Philippines (The address on my credit card receipt says Cart Noodle Restaurant 546 Remedios Street Malate, Manila

Bedrock Bar and Grill Malate, Manila is a great place to go hangout on any night of the week. They have live bands every night playing lots of the new hits of today, drinking some San Migs, eating some sisig and peanuts while chilling with your friends, it’s a great time!

The Menu: They have tons of bar foods, french fries, and mostly filipino dishes like sisig, pancit, and many more
What I Ate: I always eat their sizzling pork sisig, and it’s delicious, I love it! Oh, and always with ice cold buckets of San Mig Light
The Staff: The staff at Bedrock Bar, is always really great with us, very friendly, light your cigarettes, but lots of time they’ll hope/expect a tip at the end of the night
The Bathroom: The comfort room at Bedrock is kind of dirty, they have bathroom attendants waiting for you to give you mini bathroom massages and give you warm towels too, don’t take any of that unless you willing to dish out a little tip, I usually do, since I’m a fan of the CR-massages haha

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Chefs’ Quarter

January 6th, 2010

Chefs Quarter Brasserie & Wine Bar
Open Daily NA
Website:
Call: 02-381-3449 /02-381-7716
Address: Level 1 Midtown Wing, Robinsons Place Manila, Adriatico cor. Pedro Gil St. Malate, Manila Philippines

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Chefs’ Quarter

The Menu:
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The Staff: The staff at Chefs Quarter were super dooper friendly
The Bathroom:

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Extras:

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Duck Inn Bar & Hotel

January 6th, 2010

Duck Inn Bar and Hotel
Open 24hrs
website: http://www.duckinnmanila.com
Call: (632) 523-3995
Address: 1207 M.H. Del Pilar Street, Ermita, Metro Manila, Philippines

The Duck Inn Hotel was established in 2002 by Australians David Thomson and Douglas Green. It features polished wooden floors, a Western sports bar , restaurant with billiard tables and multiple channels of satellite sports and news, all is open 24 hours/day everyday. The hotels reception bar and restaurant is situated on the ground floor with the accommodation on the 1st and 2nd floors. The 13 rooms are all equipped with queen size bed, cable TV, air conditioning, mini bar and safety vault. The rooms are all very cheap, at only 1300 – 1600 php per night.

Location:I actually like this location, it’s right across the street from the Hobbit House (a famous restaurant/bar with all little midgets working as waitresses), and it’s in the heart of Malate, lots of 7-11’s, bars, Korean and Japanese restaurants, and tons of little sorry-sorry shops.
Facilities: Duck Inn has some decent accommodations, with Queen size beds, cable TV, safety deposit box, air conditioning, and free wifi internet in every room
The Staff: The staff was fun and friendly, we had great conversation and a few laughs
The Room: The room was not bad, the tv was up high in the air on a stand and the bed was decent, BUT there were tons of cockroaches
Extras: Free wifi internet in the rooms
Tip:
Negatives: My room had tons of cockroaches, I watched as 1 of them went onto my toothbrush

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Makati Palace Hotel

January 6th, 2010

Makati Palace Hotel
“Your Royal Address”
Open 24hrs
website: http://www.makatipalacehotel.com.ph
Call: (632) 899-0344
Address: 5011 P. Burgos Corner Caceres St., Makati City, Philippines

Makati Palace hotel is located with the Makati Central Business District, places it at the center of leisure, dining, entertainment venues, international business centers, upscale specialty shops, and convention centers. Makati Palace Hotel is the modern businessman’s (note: MAN/MENS) address in spectacular cosmopolitan Makati (walking distance to Rockwell Center and Power Plant Mall). Their elegant, fully furnished guestrooms are designed to give comfort, convenience and style.

Location: Makati Palace is in a great location if you are in a mood for lots of eating, drinking, and bar hopping to girly bars, gentlemens clubs, it’s located right on Paul Burgos St. which is famous for it’s great nightlife and girly bars.
Facilities: They have a business center, Caesar’s Coffeeshop with wifi, Formosa Spa, Beniya Authentic Japanese Restaurant, Club Nyx KTV Bar, swimming pool (closes too early, at 7pm) and the Palace Gym, foreign currency exchange, safety deposit boxes, room service, and they have just about anything you’ll need for business or holiday
The Staff: The Makati Palace Hotel staff has always been nice, but I’ve heard of stories of them assuming and treating the girl dates, or girlfriends, wives all as bargirls
The Room: I stayed in the Superior room, it was pretty disappointing, the aircon sucked and the room just looked ugly and dark, old. It had an empty fridge, good because I go 7/11 across the road and load up on cheap drinks, waters, and such. The thing is, if you buy from agoda.com you can get that room for cheap, only $47 usd
Extras: On the 2nd floor of Makati Palace hotel is the delightful Formosa Massage & Spa. It’s an open 24 hours spa, massage, jacuzzi and sauna, for reservactions call 02-483-9469. Please note, you can NOT sign your charges to your room, you must pay on the spot
Tip: Do NOT stay in Makati Palace if you are looking for a quiet night in Manila/Makati. If you’d like to relax and watch dvds, you can rent the dvd player for 500 pesos
Negatives: Using the wifi there is expensive, and if you are staying at a high floor, they have dialup only available, yes, dialup is still around I guess LOL, I highly suggest investing in Smart Bro or Globe Tattoo. Also, it’s great they have bathtubs, but the water doesn’t get very hot, so, taking a luke warm bath doesn’t really feel to great.

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New Solanie Hotel

January 6th, 2010

New Solanie Hotel
Open 24hrs
website: none
Call: (632) 524-8641
Address: 1811 Leon Guinto St. Malate, Manila 1004 Philippines

The New Solanie Hotel, Malate Manila, is located in the center of the district of Malate where there are many bars and restaurants. The hotel is accessible to all major transportation routes (but I find it difficult to get a taxi sometimes). This hotel has few facilities and services and medium sized rooms that are simply decorated and practical. The New Solanie Hotel is a good choice for budget travellers.

Location:
Facilities: They have 24hr room service and laundry service.
The Staff:
The Room: The room is best described as “good enough” there is a bed, a tv and a bathroom, the shower didn’t have much hot water and I’ve seen a few bugs in the rooms too but nothing serious.
Extras: Free wifi internet in the lobby / restaurant area
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Stargate Pensionne

December 14th, 2009

Stargate Pensionne
Open 24hrs
website: http://www.stargatepensionne.com
Call: (632) 303-6572
Address: 1711 M.Adriatico St., Malate Manila, Philippines 1004

Stargate Pensionne is a nice little place for staying a couple nights, rates are decent from 988 – 2488 php per night, they supposedly have WIFI in all rooms but the night I was there, or the room I was in, did NOT have internet, I was very disappointed about that. It was nice to walk down to the bars everynight, the Malate nightlife is right outside the door.

Location: Stargate is nice location walking distance to many great korean and japanese restaurants, Robinsons Mall, a casino, and lots of nightlife too, Bedrock and lots more bars nearby walking distance
Facilities: Stargate doesn’t have much for facilities, they have an internet station in the lobby and a small restaurant/bar
The Staff: The staff gets the job done, and are friendly usually
The Room: The room is just a room with a bed, nothing special at all, my room didn’t even have any windows hehe
Extras: No extras that I noticed here
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Filling Station Burgos

November 8th, 2009

Filling Station Bar Burgos Street
Good food, drinks and music, billiards pool hall
Open Daily 24hours/day
Website: http://royalbellagio.com/resto.html
Call: (02) 897-2053 or 899-5555
Address: 5012 P Burgos St. Poblacion Makati City, Philippines

The Filling Station is a nice Maidrite-style restaurant, it’s old fashioned like a diner, with lots of old rock n roll pictures on the wall, and some fake old telephones and gas station things. The food is great, my favorite are their french toast for breakfast, and their mini tacos, my friend (a filipina) says her absolute favorite sinigang is from FS. Also you can play some billiards, or watch the action on Burgos street from upstairs window if you’re sitting in the booths. And I love how when you’re eating, if anything you need, more sauces, or if you want the check, just push a button and they come give you service, brilliant!!!!

The Menu: The Filling Station menu is amazing, they have everything from delicious pizza’s, to cheeseburgers, soups, sandwiches of all kinds, pasta, grilled fishes, tons of filipino dishes and even a TON of desserts! They have just about everything you can think of!
What I Ate: I was there today, I ordered the french toast which was VERY good, and also I had the corned beef hash with sunny-side-up eggs and toast, all was very good.
The Staff: They are nice, friendly, wearing some cute little gas station style uniforms, and sometimes on weekends the girl waitresses will do a cool little dance near your table
The Bathroom: They comfort room here is decent, very small, but is always stocked with tissue and toilet paper

Conclusion:

Extras: They have pool tables in the back, and also they are connected to the nice theme hotel the Royal Bellagio Hotel and also to The Bronx Disco Bar (open LATE til 7am). Also they have happy hour from 2-7pm every day of the week, it is 50% OFF on selected drinks