Starbucks Drive Thru is a DREAM COME TRUE for someone like me who love Starbucks Coffee!!!
I’ve wished for this lots of times in the past and having the first drive thru Starbucks building near my office is such a wonderful gift. Whoever thought of this, THANK YOU!
Brewing starts on Wednesday, November 24, 2010
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For my close friends and family, it’s not a news that I super love coffee. In the past three months, I’ve had great times with these people with three different coffee/coffee shops.
In no particular order, I’m sharing these moments that made my coffee experience both joyful and memorable.
Starbucks Coffee: Breakfast Blend and Decaf House Blend
Mornings aren’t complete without coffee. For me this is the ultimate alarm clock. Not having coffee in the morning is like brushing my teeth without toothpaste, like a fish out of water. My Mom happens to be staying away from caffeine due to a heart condition so she enjoys the decaffeinated stuff. Batangueños like me, from the Southern Tagalog region popular for Kapeng Batangas or Kapeng Barako, a cup of coffee a day is next to breathing air.
I like Starbucks coffee, but their branches are most of the time full of people either smoking outside or customers surfing the net for almost half a day… taking most of the seats inside. That’s why brewing my own cup at home allows me to have a taste of their coffee.
Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf: A Relaxing Office Break
Break times at CBTL is an oasis in the dessert, a refresh button in a frozen internet browser as I describe it. The branches in Piazza and Burgos Circles are like my pit stop when hustles and pressures of work start getting into my bones. The aroma of tea and coffee is just refreshing. A wide selection of All-day breakfast and pasta are also available to go with my hot cup (I seldom order cold drinks).
Another thing I like about their shop aside from the aroma in the air is space. The aisle spaces allow a certain privacy from the next customer. Even if the place is full, it’s not suffocating. But of course, 15 to max of 30 minutes is all I got so… back to work 
Bo’s Coffee Club: Spending a Night Out with Friends
Chilling out with some close friends in Bo’s Coffee Club, Bonifacio High Street is just best way to cap the work week after bottomless Margarita in Agave, a Mexican resto within the area. BCC boasts of freshly roasted coffee beans. Knowing that I have “freshness” (an ABC channel 5 word- ‘ka-freshness’) in my cup is a good thing. Means that I’m assured of the potency of my coffee. The aroma is just as fresh. Of course we all know that the sense of taste is connected to the sense of smell. Apart from that, spending time with my dear friends makes it more ‘masarap’ (translate: delicious). As I always tell them when we’re undecided where to eat or hang out, “just anywhere as long as we’re together (naks, hehe).” Spending the time in Bo’s just makes it more special.
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There is a new branch of UCC Park Cafe in Burgos Circle of Bonifacio Global City. Together with my friend Abigail, who ordered Seafood Penne Au Gratin and Blueberry with Banana smoothie, I ordered for my all-time favotite – Japanese Seafood Spaghetti Soup and of course, Coke.
There were also coffee bean and ground coffee selections by the door entrance, which are interesting. The place was cozy and was decorated in good taste. Will definitely be back one of these days to try out some of their other dishes and coffees.
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One of the first food establishments in Forbes Town Center in 26th Street of the Bonifacio Global City is UCC Cafe Terrace. UCC is UESHIMA COFFEE CO., LTD (UCC) is a Japanese company in the coffee and related businesses.
UCC Cafe Terrace has an extensive menu just about right for anytime of the day, be it breakfast, lunch, dinner, or whenever there is a feel to indulge and enjoy japananes fusion with a cup of UCC coffee. They also have wifi in the area and a choice of airconditioned area or the open terrace area (hence the name ‘Terrace’).
One of the popular past dish they have is the Japanese Seafood Spaghetti Soup (my fave is in tomato sauce). To start the day right, an enjoyable plate of garlic rice, veggie salad, red egg salad, spicy spanish style bangus (milkfish), and a cup of coffee is a good choice.
UCC Spanish Style Bangus Breakfast Meal
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When stressed, down, or feeling a need to pamper myself a little, one thing comes into my mind… COFFEE. Yeah, okay I admit I am an addict, a COFFEE ADDICT that is. Instant coffee, brewed, freshly brewed, branded or not as long as it is the caffeine rich drink that smells like mornings in a far away paradise, I’ll take it.
Same as this one morning when I was stressing myself of some entrepreneurial tasks and had to take a break. Good heavens, there is Figaro *sound effects here, special effect: eyes glowing alà animé* My mind is crazily imagining an oasis in a desert. They have a coffee shop at the 2nd floor of The Medical City Strip along Ortigas Ext.
With a long list of choices, my sudden lack of creativity had me ordering a latte (coffee and milk) and Pasta Arabiatta (pasta with a spicy sauce). I said lack of creativity because I’d usually order the house specialty. If there is one more ingredient in my Figaro coffee that is making it taste wonderful is the company’s commitment to making the Barako coffee alive.
This Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) program should make every Filipino proud that there is a company that aside from selling and growing their coffee, they continue a legacy, a story of the Filipino coffee.
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One cold rainy morning I, together with some bloggers, had a chance to meet Steve Benitez, CEO of Bo’s Coffee, in Bonifacio High Street (BHS). He was roasting some coffee beans from Guatemala not for a coffee drink but for a coffee art. You will not miss this (very expensive) coffee roaster by the counter as you enter BHS branch.
Yes, coffee art, he roasted in different shades of brown in what is to be an artist’s unique palette of brown monochromatic material instead of the usual paint, water color or pencil. His object of art is the bean itself. He just knows when the beans would start to crackle, when the beans would start to drop temperature in the roaster, and a lot more details. So much passion for coffee, yes? I agree.
What differentiates Bo’s Coffee Club is that a cup of coffee is assured of freshness. As Steve explained, roasted coffee beans are best grounded not right after roasting but about three days later and so the deliveries to a Bo’s Coffee Club are assured also of coffee aroma and taste right in its peak.
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Seminar Schedules in Kape Isla, Home of Philippine Coffee
We’re building a sustainable lifestyle community! Join us this October to celebrate Coffee Month with the Philippine Coffee Board. Members of the Philippine Coffee Board, Inc, coffee experts and coffee farming advocates will treat you to a whole month of learning and doing this October!
Come to Kape Isla at the Serendra and learn more about the world’s most popular beverage, and the second most traded commodity in the world. From farming to brewing, The Coffee Board has concocted a seminar for every need, for every area of interest.
Call 0915-576 7886 or 901.3485 for reservations.
Seats are limited so please hurry!
Email philcoffeeboard@gmail.com for inquiries.
DESSERT COFFEE
Wednesday, October 15, 1 – 4 PM
Coffee is not just a drink but a dessert, too. Chris Domingo, barista and coffee dessert expert shows how coffee drinks can be desserts with the use of flavored syrups from Torani. Learn how to make espresso and brewed coffee as bases for real desserts! This course is great for home entertainers and restaurants and cafes wanting to offer more interesting dessert drinks.
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Who would have thought that aside from the revolutionary commercialization of bottled drinking water, that coffee boutiques and cafés will hit the market and will be mushrooming the streets of Metro Manila?
Most of them are even expensive as compared to an instant coffee that has been the number one favorite in households for a long while. Well, a lot of the coffee beans were imported and features the flavors of the world.
In Tiendesitas in Pasig, Philippine Mountain Coffee Company, a coffee boutique that has our very own charcoal roasted coffee beans from Kalinga, Tagaytay, Sagada, Malaybalay, Kanlaon.
For non-coffee drinkers, a must try is their hot chocolate, available classic and sugar free flavors.
This place, Tiendesitas, has captivated not diverse markets who enjoy spending time with their buddies with live, music, food, and great finds not just over buckets of beer but also for those who simply like to have a chat over coffee.
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