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Filipino pop-up dinner coming to Cambridge’s Bambara Kitchen
Next week, Pinoy Heritage, a Filipino popup run by husband and wife team, chef Francis and Dian Ang and chef partner Danica Aviles, is coming to Bambara Kitchen in Cambridge. For two nights, Bostonians can head across the river for a night of Filipino food and fun.
Pinoy Heritage aims to showcase the best of the Filipino cuisine. These pop-up dinners are not shying away from the fact that this may be an adventurous experience for many guests by filling the menu with new twists on Filipino classics.
Tickets are $60 per person and include a welcome cocktail, passed hors d’oeuvres and a four-course Filipino dinner with some courses served family-style. There will also be an option for wine pairings and additional cocktail purchases.
Chef Francis Ang of Pinoy Heritage and chef Baz Bazirgan of Bambara worked together at the Fifth Floor Restaurant in San Francisco. There Francis was named Food and Wine Magazine’s “People’s Best Pastry Chef” for the West Coast. After that, he and chef Bazirgan worked together once again at Dirty Habit, another highend eatery in San Francisco.
“We’re excited to be cooking alongside chef Baz once again,” says chef partner Ang. “He’s my longtime mentor and a major force behind the birth of our popup, Pinoy Heritage. Coming back from a devastating typhoon in the Philippines, chef Baz encouraged us to
organize a fundraiser for those impacted by the typhoon. We created an all Filipino menu that turned into a huge success. It opened our eyes about the possibility of cooking our own food.”
The menu for the pop-up nights will feature Filipino dishes like: Grilled Longanisa, Stone Fruit Atchara, Halibut Kinilaw, Maine Lobster Lumpia, Lamb Adobo, Pinakurat and Roast Suckling Pig.
Chef partner Ang adds, “Here we are in year three, and hoping to open a restaurant soon. We’ll be bringing the crowd favorite, our Lamb Adobo Empanada, which recently won us the Lamb Jam National Championship title, to Boston.”
The team hopes that by giving Bostonians a chance to experience the flavors of Filipino cuisine, people will get to understand that not only is it delicious, but it is also built around family — meals are meant to be shared with all your loved ones.
Aviles, chef partner at Pinoy Heritage, said, “Graduating fresh out of culinary school, chef Baz took a chance when he brought me into his kitchen at the Fifth Floor, and I am so excited to once again be cooking alongside him. I hope that this won’t be the last time we visit Boston since chef Baz is not only a mentor, but family to our little pop-up.” Space is limited.
For more information, visit www.eventbrite.com/e/ west-meets-east-pop-updinner-tickets-66293314087 or call Bambara at 617-8684444.