Eats Delicious!: coffee shops along taft

Duke's coffee place or palace? I often get confused as the previous is too straightforward yet the latter can be a good way to describe the place. It's quite a big coffee shop with second floor landing and it's well-decorated. But as it turns out, the name of this coffee shop is as direct as it can be. Yes, Duke's Coffee Place.

It was irritatingly jam-packed to Taft. So to ease the annoyance a bit, tried the beckoning coffee place.

A bit grand it was inside. These lights were like fireflies enlarged. It was relaxing.

The only thing I enjoyed

Carbonara at Php 150 was my choice to fill me up paired with Lemonade at Php 130. The pasta was creamy but too milky. The complimentary bread wasn't even toasted. The lemonade, yes should be healthy but too sour.

Swimming carbonara

Why you gotta be so sour?

I guess I'm paying for the ambiance. Not a place I'd chill again.

Rating: 2.5

Coffee Place is located at:

C1 G/F, The Grand Towers,

Pablo Ocampo St,

Malate, Manila

Thursday, December 03, 2015

Cafe Travel: what an intriguing name! More than the want for some caffeine, it's the curiosity that got the better of us. So one nippy night, our feet brought us to this cafe along Taft.

Welcome to Cafe Travel!

Annyeonghaseyo!

At the entrance, we were greeted by columns of pictures- a must when travelling. Then at a nook, an Eiffel Tower greets plus post and mailbox, an old telephone, jars of trinkets, a big panda and sticky notes on the wall. At some point we don't know how these relate to travel already (maybe the Korean owners traveled far o put up a cafe?) but nevertheless, all these little detail to the cozy ambiance.

Panda x Eiffel

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Call me baby!

Picture Tree

At a glance, it looks like Noriter, even the seats (but with pillows)! And much brighter and cleaner.

Happy place!

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Food for three!

We traveled to eat so we munched all sweets! Tried Travel Special's Java Chip at Php 180 and Oreo Cookies Cake at Php 170. The drink was good, the Oreo cake was a blast!

Oreo Cookies Cake

Travel Java Chip

They tried New York Cheesecake (Blueberry) at Php 190 and Dark Chocolate Cake at Php 170. The latter was not that dark, in fact it's sweet. But hats down to the former. Their NY Cheesecake was oh so good and compact! All were expensive but it's definitely a sweet-tooth-craving-satisfied-kinda-day.