Hotel staycation cost, dishes and drinks to splurge on this Valentine’s Day!
hotel’s special Valentine’s Day fourcourse set menu with a flute of Champagne at Old Manila for P4,600 on February 14. No à la carte menu will be served on this day from 6:30 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. The menu is also available on February 13, 15, 16, and 17 with limited à la carte service. You may also avail of the Valentine Brunch with free-flowing Champagne at Escolta for P4,300, the Valentine’s Afternoon Tea Set at The Lobby for P1,250, or an à la carte menu at Spices for a minimum spend of P1,300. Ladies who will dine at these establishments on February 14, will receive a Peninsula long-stemmed red rose.
Discovery Suites
Bring your romantic dinner up a notch with a 360-view of the Ortigas skyline. That’s possible with Discovery Suites’Valentine Dinner Date package. The hotel will open the doors to their helipad where you will enjoy a fourcourse meal, a bottle of wine and a cheese platter, plus complimentary passes to “Drink. Play. Love,” an openbar event at the sky garden. The package, available on February 14 and 15, costs P15,000. For P20,000, the package will include a one-night stay in a one-bedroom suite with breakfast for two.
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This Valentine season, restaurants and establishments will surely have their celebratory menus and packages at the ready. And those who have the extra money, and want to keep away from the Valentine crowd, will not think twice spending on these dishes and drinks...even if they cost five digi t s.
Antonio’s
This flagship restaurant by acclaimed cravings at this restaurant in City of Dreams, Parañaque, which offers 500g of charcoal-grilled Japanese beef sirloin steak at P17,500. If a bottle of wine is neither your nor your partner’s fancy, down the premium Wagyu beef with a bottle of Yamazaki Suntory whisky 12 years that costs P31,000. You can also order per 45ml glass for P2,200.
Passi on
This Cantonese restaurant inside Maxims Hotel in Pasay City serves premium dishes worth your buck. Start your intimate dinner with the bird’s nest soup with coconut milk and rock sugar at P2,900 per person.
Choose from savory entrées of roasted crispy suckling pig with jelly fish (P9,080), braised whole abalone in premium oyster sauce (P3,100), or the live Tiger lobster served two ways (P6,200 for 500g).
Canton Road
A Chinese restaurant may seem an unlikely place to go for wine, but Shangri-La at the Fort’s establishment named after an iconic luxury shopping destination in Hong Kong has an extensive wine list for patrons with a discerning palate. Red wine connoisseurs are spoiled for choice among bottles of the Chateau Lafite Rothschild Pauillac 2011 (P62,950),