Cafe Mary Grace

If not doing instagram and having dormant tweeter acct. would  mean living under a rock. Then I plead guilty, haha. No one cares anyway. I don't, haha. As I mentioned   here, I've started cleaning up my phone. Some more from my poor photo overloaded phone :

Looks like somewhere nice but not in a mall , right? It's Cafe Mary Grace at Southmall ( Las Pinas ).




Tables are quite interesting.. No, the letter was not from me.




Again I lost track of the date here, but I'm sure it was earlier this year, based on my hair, haha. I don't like the light here thu'. Not working well with my cam phone, my age is showing here, haha.




I had my favorite prawn salad with mango papaya vinaigrette ...

.. split with my date, older daughter.  We both love this salad. I could eat this everyday.

And a slice of mango bene which we shared. yum!

We only had those two and we were contented. We took home a box of brownies for the younger daughter at home. I love Cafe Mary Grace.

Cafe France: Couture Tray

I frequent Cafe France ( formerly named DeliFrance ) not to dine-in but to buy1/take1 pastry products nearing closing store hours.  My girls and I love their breads. Me especially if they are 50% off, haha. While in q to pay, I would see their food display with delicious looking salad, pasta, meat dishes and desserts. I would always make a mental note to try dining in the cafe but would find myself always coming back for the buy1/take1 and always rushing, haha.

Last weekend, we were at MOA as usual with jampacked restos when it was time to eat. Exiting F21, we saw Cafe France looking minimal in terms of nos. of table occupied. Us_ as you know hate heavily crowded dining place, found Cafe France just the place to eat this time. Funny that after 158 years we had to try it first in MOA, when a nearest branch to our home is just 5 minutes drive.

Anyway, I got to try the Pierre Tray Couture. Sounds like a high fashion brand huh? Ok I'll make it easy_ it's actually a set meal. A french gourmet tray of pasta & sandwich combi with soup, dessert, and a drink. Other trays couture named as Adelle, Marguerite, and Philippe.

 Pierre Tray Couture is a seafood set meal with seafood marinara pasta and seafood deluxe clubhouse sandwich as main dishes. I hadn't paid so much attention to the soup served in a shot glass and just had a bit of it using it as a dip for the bread sticks included in the meal.

I loved the seafood marinara so much so I finished it in a bit. I liked its marinara sauce with generous amount of shrimps. I thought the pasta serving was small thu'. But the sandwich I didn't finish. I still have to find suitable crab sandwich for myself and this is not the one.

While my rice meal baby ( older daughter ) had ordered a rice meal of course. She had a plate of Chicken French in Bechamel Sauce ( ala carte ). It was breaded chicken fillet in white sauce with white rice.



She didn't like it and just shared my set meal. She had it taken home for her sister. At home, younger daughter surprisingly had  liked it or was it only because she was so damn hungry already when we arrived home?

So there_ our 1st at Cafe France. I think we're going to come back to try their other tray couture, preferably at the nearest branch. And yes I would continue to be a loyal patron of their buy1take1, haha.

Banapple

Me and my girls are loving the new wing of Alabang Town Center. It got lots of restaurant outlets that are yet rarely found in the South, which most of them have already been around the metro for quite sometime. You know, #suburbs_ we're a tad late here. For this particular weekend, we had our eyes at Banapple. We had passed by it many times  and always jam packed inside. We're not  fans of queue and overcrowded diners, but we almost had tried every outlet there at the new wing and Banapple was still full. We decided to try it anyway and not bad in a minute we were offered a table.

The only table left was in the middle, which we hated..

The interior thu' limited in space, was nice with its homey-country design.

Younger daughter wasn't so happy about the long wait for the food we ordered.



So when the food came.. she quickly took the utensil and started her dish..haha.

chicken breast parmigiano. We were not yet familiar with the menu, and just ordered what initially took our fancy. This was my youngest's. I had a spoonful taste of it and it was yummy. The sauce was particularly tasty and I bet would be perfect to top on any pasta but quite well with the chicken and rice too. The buttered carrots were left untouched.

bacon fried chicken steaks with milk'sroom gravy. This plate was the older sister's. I also tasted it but by now have no recollection of it. I just remember, daughter hadn't finished it and seemed to have regret for choosing this dish.



asian sunshine salad. This was my plate. The dressing I didn't like. It was honey sesame oil. I don't know, some variants of sesame dressings are my favorites. Theirs_ not my type.

Ordinarily, a plate of green salad like this would be enough to fill me up on lunch or dinner. It's already a whole meal to me and would just indulge on desserts. But this particular salad plate failed me. I didn't finish it. Aside from the salad dressing I hated, I didn't like the wonton skin toppings. It ruined the freshness of the greens.



fudgymudgymud pie. Cos the name was so catchy, the girls ordered this but  failed to finish too. The slice was huge for this rich creamy pie to finish in one sitting..



cherry chocolate truffle cheesecake. I love anything with cherry and this I shared witht he girls but neither finished this too. Everything here was big serving for our preferred portion.



When cheese pie craving hits us next, maybe we'll go at Banapple to grab a slice or a box of their pastries, but maybe we'll skip their main dishes.