Davao Delicious

The area in Davao City called Barrio Obrero is fast becoming commercialized, what with its proximity to Victoria Plaza Mall, and a university right in the middle of it. I’ve been noticing that a lot of different types of businesses have been opening up in Obrero — Internet cafés, massage clinics or spas (on one [...]

A few pizzerias have opened up in Davao since last year, and I’ve tried them all, but I’m afraid to say that none of them have made the grade, so to speak. When I ate pizza at those new places, I felt like I should’ve gone to Pizza Hut instead… But there’s one, which opened [...]

A number of coffee shops have opened in Davao this year, but none that have truly caught my attention as Fagioli Coffee Club has. On the way to the Waterfront Insular Hotel one night, I noticed the new, big yellow sign along J.P. Laurel avenue, and the huge glass panels of the café. Good, I [...]

All of us have friends whom we look to as gods or goddesses of the kitchen. I’m lucky to have several. But the person whose cooking my friends and I adore is Bamba. Too bad that she doesn’t cook as much as before anymore, but on special occasions, we the Bamba’s-cooking-crazy friends can still count [...]

I thought that it would be fitting to have Basti’s Brew as my first feature here, this coffee shop being my favorite and my usual haunt. In fact I’m right there while I blog this. As I’ve written before over at Ang Dabawenyo, Basti’s Brew Coffee Station at Victoria Plaza is probably one of the [...]