Floral concoctions
A Japanese burger joint, a flower shop and new watering holes join the idiosyncratic northern experience
Flower Ranch Café
Beacon Place, Shaw Blvd., Mandaluyong instagram.com/flowerranch.cafe
A neighborhood flower shop doesn’t need that big of a space. After all, it’s a room of transience: You go in, choose some flowers, wait for the arrangement to be done, pay and leave with a bouquet in hand. But Flower Ranch Café would like you to stay in its self-described “very tiny space” first for its quaintness and then for coffee from its brief menu. Stay. That is, if you chance upon its two wooden stools and two wooden benches unoccupied.
Hey Brew Eatery + Bar
F&B 02, Greenhills Theatre Mall, San Juan instagram.com/heybrewgh
Hey Brew is the newest brainchild of chef Niño Laus and mixologist Kalel Demetrio, the same masterminds behind Poblacion’s Alamat and Agimat. As they bring their collaboration to the north of the city, Laus continues to do what he does best: fusion. Here, you will find chicken and waffles made with dashi. Meanwhile, Demetrio has put together an eclectic beverage menu that consists of both cocktails and non-spirited concoctions, including milkshakes.