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Art exhibit opens July 13 at Karenderya Nyack
Karenderya, one of Esquire Magazine’s Top 20 new restaurants in America, will serve up food-for-thought with a new exhibition “Fil-Am Road,” featuring photography and paintings by Gloria and Vina Cacho Orden, and selected works from the collective, Baguio Group of Artists. It will be on view from July 13 to October 13, 2019. The restaurant […]
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On Global Filipinos: When in Chicago, check out Billy Dec’s Sunda
By Loida Nicolas Lewis Dr. Angie Cruz and myself were in Chicago recently to visit our friend, immigration lawyer Maricar Madrid-Crost. She invited us to lunch at this upscale Filipino American place called Sunda New Asian Restaurant located in 110 West Illinois Street in the River North District. Sunda, named after a Southeast Asian Island, […]
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At TSISMIS where casual bites go deliciously well with juicy small talk
On June 7th, TSISMIS (chis’mis) NYC, a Filipino American restaurant, opened on famed Orchard Street. TSISMIS is derived from the Spanish word “chisme,” meaning gossip, which the owners selected with the idea of introducing a casual gathering place to bring people, food and drinks together. The owners are husband and wife Stephen Young and Reggie […]
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Let’s eat!
…A call to a culinary alliance as the 2019 Filipino Restaurant Week unfurled from May 13 to 26 across seven states, including New York, New Jersey, and Washington D.C. Two dozen eating places – from sit-down diners with a waitstaff to food court counters and coffee shops – participated. They presented their unique versions of […]
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The comeback of Michelle Hugo: Using her voice to speak for women
By Cristina DC Pastor It has been over a year since the closing of the Park Avenue modern French brasserie, Maison Hugo, owned by the culinary couple Michelle and Florian V. Hugo. Michelle is finally opening up, ready to address the curious questions. How the business – and a nearly 20-year relationship — went down […]
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The day PAFCOM served up Filipino food at a soup kitchen
On February 18, which was Presidents Day, sisters Krismarie and Marykirsten Taino woke up early to help out at the Let’s Celebrate Soup Kitchen on Fairview Avenue in Jersey City. The teens, together with their mother Maricar Taino, were among the dozen volunteers from the Philippine American Friendship Community, Inc. (PAFCOM) who served breakfast and […]
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Revisiting NYC and finding Filipinos that inspire and radiate
By Angelito Cabigao There some things you can’t just find anywhere. For example, it’s tough to beat a hot fresh pizza slice from Prince Street Pizza in New York City, a freshly baked bagel loaded with cream cheese from Bagels Abroad in Clifton, New Jersey, and a fresh ripe yellow mango shake from the Philippines. […]
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Cooking while cruising with Chef Nilo Palma
By Wendell Gaa On most ship cruises around the globe, Filipinos almost always constitute a sizeable portion — around 30%-50% — of the cabin crew. They can be the cooks, waiters, customer service representatives, engineers, janitors, and onboard doctors and masseuses. The fact that we are English-speaking, industrious and adaptable to any regional culture is […]
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Nicole Ponseca publishes a cookbook, her ‘manifesto of identity’
By Cristina DC Pastor “I Am a Filipino” is best remembered as Carlos P. Romulo’s patriotic anthem. Where I went to school back in the day, we were required to memorize it and declaim it in front of the class, complete with knowing when to pause and when to enunciate the dramatic phrases. More than […]