Sweet Deals: 1837 TWG Tea Salon & Boutique Promo: 50% off on French Macaron

It's almost tea time. If you love pairing pastry with your tea, try the tea infused French Macarons in 1837 TWG Tea Salon & Boutique that some foodies has been raving about. So delish with a good amount of warm "Weekend in Shanghai" tea. Good news is they are selling it at 50% off, instead of P 60.00 per piece get your choice of Macaron at P 30.00 only. The bad news is the promo has been running for several days now and it ends today. They offer new flavors that are exclusive for this particular promo. I got some tea infused goodies last night, box of 12 for only P 360.00 instead of P 720.00 . Good buy, eh?

12 pieces of happiness in a box

Singapore Surprise-Promo Exclusive

Bain de Roses

Hazelnut Macaron

Sakura Macaron

TWG Tea Salon & Boutique
Shangri-La Plaza East Wing, Unit 2340
Mid-level 02-03, EDSA corner Shaw Boulevard,
Mandaluyong City, Philippines
Tel: +632 654 1421, +632 654 2557

Opening Hours:
Monday to Sunday 10am - 12am

TWG Tea Salon & Boutique
R2, 2nd Floor, Archaeology Gallery
Power Plant Mall, Rockwell Center,
Makati City, 1200 Philippines
Tel: +632 478 6136, +632 478 2782

Opening Hours:
Monday to Thursday 11am to 9pm
Friday and Saturday 11am to 10pm
Sunday 10am to 9pm

TWG Tea Salon & Boutique
Greenbelt 5 Mall, Level 1-049, Level 1
Legaspi Village, Makati City 1226
Philippines
Tel: +632 720 8665, +632 720 8667

Operating Hours:
Monday to Thursday 11am - 9pm
Friday and Saturday 11am - 10pm
Sunday 10 am - 9pm

TWG Tea Salon & Boutique
Century City Mall, L119B1-L119B2 & L127,
Kalayaan Avenue, Barangay Poblacion
Makati City, Philippines
Tel: +63 2 403 7776 (Salon) or
+63 2 403 9821 (Boutique)

Opening Hours:
Monday to Sunday: 10am - 9pm

TWG Tea Salon & Boutique
Resorts World Manila,
Ground Floor, Shop 17B Newport Mall, 100 Andrews Avenue, Newport Cyber Tourism Zone,
Pasay City, Philippines
Tel: +632 551 0696, +632 551 0925

Operating Hours:
Monday to Thursday 11am to 12am
Friday to Sunday 11am to 1am

 Source: http://www.twgtea.com/ourlocations.html

Caffeine Talk: Starbucks Macchiato Monday

Hey! Today is Macchiato Monday! Starbucks is treating everyone with a 'Buy one Caramel Macchiato, Get one free' promo.

source: https://www.facebook.com/StarbucksPhilippines

Apparently, Team Caramel won in the coffee competition against Team Hazelnut with a whopping 2,800+ difference in number of votes. Personally, I love the new Hazelnut infused espresso drink in their core line up. The nuttiness compliments the richness and aroma of their Espresso Roast. I always find Caramel Macchiato sweet (but you know all their drinks are exceptionally sweet that's why I get mine in non-fat. Ha!).

It's only for today, March 17, 2014 so get your Caramel Macchiato now and enjoy it warm or iced with a friend. :)

Starbucks Downhill

My mom has been frequenting Tagaytay the past year, well, technically it's Batangas she's after, but she drops by Tagaytay often to shop and eat whenever she brings us or her friends. These are all because my father, decided after a long term devotion to his career as a Seaman, to now command a vessel that only sails within Asia. Mama visits him during their scheduled route to Philippines which means he does not have to wait long to see Mama, or me, or ate or his apos (he loves his apos too much you know), he just have to order his crew to sail to the Philippines and duct in Batangas shores (if that's how it works, lol). Anyway, back to our past trips, I somehow witnessed the construction progress of the new Starbucks along Calamba road. It looked really big and conveniently positioned to have the best view of Taal Volcano, or so I thought. 

Last weekend, we went to visit Tagaytay to give a mini tour to our guest, ate Yonyon. She is our relative from Canada who came home to Bohol for a vacation and squeezed in a quick sojourn with us in Manila before flying back to Canada. By afternoon it was coffee time! Mama was convinced that we should try out this new branch downhill.

 Starbucks Facade facing Calamba Road

The Parking lot is impressive, it has a very steep entrance though.

Parking Lot

It was a little cloudy when we got there but a nice calm weather kind of cloudy. The interior could probably accommodate an entire village, but the design is consistent with all other SB stores in the Philippines; variety of comfy couches in different sizes, wooden chairs and tables under hanging dappled lights (nice for studying), floor to ceiling glass windows, etc,. I thought it was passe so I took a shot of the back facade of the building leading to a viewing deck instead.

Back view

I love the idea of a viewing area apart from the ones at the balcony, and the little extra details that came with it like the lights between steps considering the guests going in and out of the viewing area at night time. 

We snatched my uber kaduper childhood friend, Mae on the way. Hehe! You can see her admiring the obstructed view of Taal Volcano. Seriously, there is no sign of the volcano anywhere you turn. There are two or three story town houses standing a little lower, adjacent to the viewing deck. Perhaps the location was not elevated enough, but the entire scenery is not that bad. If  you really want to hang out, get coffee or tea in Tagaytay and enjoy a good view of Taal Volcano, I suggest you go to the old branch near Rotunda or get a nice seat in the second floor balcony of this branch (that we were not able to take a good look at the time), you might get lucky.

Uber Kaduper Childhood Friend and the not-so-bad scenery

The feeling and looking touristas: Mama and ate Yonyon so busy tabiing (talking) with each other. We got a pretty large table at the far end of the outdoor patio, and enjoyed a little privacy in a busy coffee shop.

Mama and ate Yonton, Outdoor Patio Seat

You think my young at heart mother would take a rain check on the opportunity to get a jump shot beside the largest Starbucks signage in the Philippines yet? Nevaaaah. It might always look like she is standing in one foot in all her jump shots but she will not let anything pass. XD

Lookie: ate Yonyon and Mama's Jump shot. Oha! Oha!

You want to see it for yourself?

Starbucks Calamba Road, Tagaytay         

Barangay San Jose, Calamba Road

Tagaytay, Cavite                        

(046)512-0124
Operating hours:

Monday to Thurday    8:00am - 1:00am

Friday                      8:00am - 2:00am

Saturday                  6:30am - 2:30am

Sunday                    6:30am - 1:30am

Cake of Opportunity: Cake2go!

It's my sister's birthday! (the eldest: Ate Ann) Went out for lunch and she's paying! But mom and I decided we can't just go empty handed so a newly opened branch of Cake2Go in Pearl Drive, North Fairview (in the internet it says Don Antonio branch for whatever reason) saved us. I have heard about the pastry shop, their mini cakes, delivery services and how they are expanding but I have not tried it once. Their branches before were far and I have so many pastry shops in mind to explore. But hey, it's a cake of opportunity!

Few cake selections but I was not surprised. The space in the shop is a little narrow and manned by a single courteous employee. They could have been more artistic with the cake but they have sugar-free selections (bottom row), that's a big YES!

I might try their cookies next time. Partially empty humongous jars convinced me! 

In search for the cake of opportunity for my thoughtful sister, I drooled over these:

But their featured cake won us over, the Mango Meringue Cake. The taste quite frankly, reminds me of Mango Bravo of Conti's in a homey and petite style. 

My sister and the folks seemed to enjoy it after a sumptuous meal. Happy birthday ate Ann!

Cake2Go is gradually expanding, going big on delivery services as their road to the market, a certain factor that consumers in this generation consider and some pastry shops oftentimes ignore. Way to go!

Sucky camera settings. Sorry. Not sorry. :) Toodles!