By Cristina DC Pastor Philippine food curiously found its way into the heart of America: Baseball. For the week of February 21, Tsismis Restaurant catered Adobo, Sisig, and Pinakbet to the corporate officers and employees of Major League Baseball, the piquant aroma of ‘ginisa’ – sautéed onion and garlic – mildly floating throughout the corridors […]
By Cristina DC Pastor An established Filipino grocery store is closing down after 12 years in business. FilStop has announced it is closing its Clifton, N.J. location which opened only five months ago. Before that, it shut down its e-commerce site Filstop.com. Plans to continue operating its original store on Newark Avenue, Jersey City remain […]
By Cristina DC Pastor Maharlika, the restaurant that blew into the New York dining scene and planted the Filipino flag, has closed down after eight years. Jeepney, will remain open, said CEO Nicole Ponseca who owns and co-founded both restaurants. “It was time to move on,” she said in emailed comments to The FilAm. “I’m […]
By Dash Nye If you’ve shopped at H&M recently, you may have noticed that things are a little less…hairy than they used to be. That’s because the company said goodbye to mohair after PETA Asia showed executives the disturbing findings from its eyewitness investigation into the cruel industry. H&M immediately stopped sourcing the fiber after […]
By Cristina DC Pastor Homesickness drove Maricar Tangonan, a first-timer in New York in 2005, to food. Exploring restaurants for almost 15 years now has transformed her into a fervent food enthusiast. An Ilocana from Camiling, Tarlac, Maricar is a hardcore foodie. She eats out at least three times a week trying new restaurants and their […]
By Theo Capulong Ramar Foods, a leading Filipino food company in America, has reached its milestone 50th-year anniversary in 2019. As the company moves into its sixth decade, the third-generation owners are energized about maintaining their signature flavors while powering it all with the latest fuel cells from Bloom Energy (NYSE: BE). In a partnership […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]