I know most of us here are familiar with some of Chateau 1771’s restaurants, cafes and bars. Chateau 1771 is a group of restaurants, bars and cafe composed of Chateau 1771, Cafe 1771, Sentro 1771, Wine Bar 1771, Side Bar and 1771 Elpueblo. Chef Vicky Pacheco, the Chief Operating Officer and Executive Chef of Chateau 1771 will be demonstrating this August 31, Saturday, 9am-1pm at the Maya Kitchen. She will be demonstrating signature dishes of each of the restaurant concept in the group. Lemon Chicken is crisp fried organic chicken leg nuggets coated with honey-lemon sauce from Chateau Salbacho...

Chef Jessie will be demonstrating some of her light and healthy food recipes at the Maya Kitchen on January 26 from 9 in the morning till 1 in the afternoon. If one of your new years resolution is to stay fit and healthy, you must first have to learn on how to prepare and cook light and healthy recipes for your self and even for your family. About the Chef: Chef Jessie is an honest to goodness ‘discovery’ of The Maya Kitchen. Josefina Cruz Sincioco, then a novice baker, won the grand prize in the baking category of the Great Maya Cookfest way back in 1983. She credits this as the start of her career...

This month of November, Sandy Daza will be at The Maya Kitchen! Sandy Daza will be demonstrating and teaching some techniques in cooking some HOME COOKED MEALS. Sandy is a very well known chef in the Philippines and he is also the son of a very well known cooking book author “Nora Daza”. My mom has a collection of her cookbooks at home as she always use it when she cooks new dish. During the late 80s, my mom and I loves watching cooking show of the Dazas. There I first saw Chef Sandy Daza, co-hosting cooking with the Dazas. Anyway, Chef Sandy graduated from New York’s Cornell University...

Do you like eating in Thai restaurants? If you, have you already tried Jatujak (cha-tu-chak) restaurant? If yes and you actually enjoyed the food there, then you’re not alone because Jatujak is one of my favorite Thai cuisine dining places as well. And now, I learned that there’s a way for you to know the Jatujak food secrets and get tips on how to make their signature dishes. Chef Tum is the Executive chef of Jatujak. In 1986, she started the popular “Taste of Thailand” at Makati’s Mile Long Center. She then also dabbled with private catering, until she opened Thai Ming...

June is very popular month for weddings and wedding list wont be complete with out wedding cakes. I never attended a wedding party or commonly known as wedding reception that didn’t served beautifully made cakes. One of the most common practice during wedding reception is the cake slicing of the newlywed and since it’s a very rare opportunity, couples usually buy fully decorated beautifully done cakes! Giving beautiful cakes as a gift is a brilliant idea for the newlyweds. Just inform then that you plan to give a cake for their wedding so that they can plan and arrange things. Cakes are...