Decdember of last year, I got invited by Sun Cellular to fly to Cebu to cover and experience the annual #CebuFoodCrawl! I love Cebu and I love eating, so I said yes in a heartbeat. Even if I was just there a month before. Haha. I will never say no to a free trip & free food. Bonus pa that I was going with my gf Anagon! :) It was a fun 3 days of gastronomic adventure and making friends. Here are photos of all the food we consumed and all the restaurants we visited. Try not to drool! :)
With unobstructed views of the skies above, the cool ocean breeze and a fine selection of cocktails and tipples, Azure Beach Club is an epic adventure from start to finish. Their outdoor seats enables you to enjoy nearby aquatic activities, and the finest combination of pick-me-ups that bring the tropics right to your glass. Take a seat in their cozy leather sofas and take in amazing live performances by fire-poi entertainers or simply lounge around and witness the DJ rounding up beats all throughout the evening.
The venue offers more than just breathtaking views but an experience on its own with the architecture carefully developed to embrace the natural beauty and charm of the beachfront location with its open concept design. The place features an Asian Grill restaurant with day and night menus, beach lounge area and a rock bar by the cliff for a perfect sundown cocktail and night cap.
Azure Beach Club serves a variety of flavors with its modern selection for lunch, dinner and everything in between. Get selection of fresh and light specialties for lunch including pizza, pasta, wraps and salads for lunch. For dinner indulge in hearty seafood and premium cuts. From classic and time tested cocktails, new mixes and original creations Azure brings to the bar a varied selection of liquid mixes.
Experience authentic Cebuano cuisine and relish their house specialties such as Lansyaw – stewed bull’s gonads, Ginabut – light battered internal organs – pork intestine, liver and pork heart, deep-fried and served with native sauce, Sutukil – fresh seafood cooked in three ways – sugba, tinola and kilaw, and many more! Kan-anan offers an array of Cebuano specialty dishes from North to South of Cebu without taking a single step!
Located at the 4th floor of the Cebu Parklane International Hotel, with a spectacular view of the city, Kan-anan is the best place in which you can spend a night catching up with good old friends, spending quality time with your family or taking a night off to de-stress with your loved one over amazing Cebuano food.
The Detox Bar was put up by Studio 108 Fitness & Wellness Center. It features homegrown fresh organic vegetable and fruit juices as well as diet-friendly menu at low-cost. The Detox Bar offers: Plant-based Meal Delivery + Pre-order Ala Carte Meals + Detox Programs for Weightloss and Healing + Refreshing Health Drinks. If you want to start eating healthy, they could help you achieve that goal!
This small health bar cafe used to be inside the defunct Studio108 Fitness & Wellness Center—the very studio that Anne Dala created out of her advocacy to offer holistic regimen.
10 Dove Street is a quaint cafe and pastry shop that serves comfort food and delectable home-baked and preservative-free cakes and pastries. It aims to make everyone that comes into its doors have a feel of what it means to be home.
“Uma”, a vibrant all-day dining café located at the 7/F lobby, offers comfort food that highlights the fresh selection and tastes of Southeast Asian specialties. Radiating a modern and contemporary ambiance, the café also features a healthy-option menu that caters to guests with specific dietary preferences.
• Weekday Lunch assortments from Soup, Salad, Cold Meat & Cheese /Sushi Sashimi and Sandwich buffet
• Weekend Brunch buffet includes lunch cooking demonstration for local and Asian Cuisine
• Weekend Dinner – Exceptional meat “Carvery Buffet”
At Rico's they serve their lechon with precision and roasted/served to perfection. The original Rico's Lechon, which is located in Highway 77, Talamban Cebu City has been in business for almost 13 years now. They serve their lechon with ingredients (only garlic & leeks!) which penetrates the deepest part of one's taste buds!
Mr. Enrico V. Dionson, proprietor of Rico's Lechon, invented the FIRST Rico's "SPICY" lechon. Wow! Thank you sir! Hehe. They also spearheaded the pack-and-ship lechon service. That's why it's the #1 lechon place in Cebu!
Sushisake is a 21-seater Japanese restaurant located in a corner of the lobby of Radisson Blu Cebu. This modern Japanese restaurant serves traditional sashimi, nigiri, makis, aburi & sakes! The food are prepared by the hotel's sushi & sashimi specialty chef, Mr. Jeff Yalung.
Cardinal Coffea is a specialty coffee shop and roasterie. Beans from all over the Philippines are roasted and brewed right at the cafe. So cool!
The Pyramid Cebu is a casual wine and dine restaurant that gives its patrons a perfect place to get together. Exuding a unique homey-chic ambiance, The Pyramid offers affordable and delectable food and wine choices that will keep you coming back for more. I cold attest to that! :)
#CebuInstaFiesta was created by the Cebu Bloggers Society in partnership with Ayala Center Cebu! Aside from sumptuous display by participating restaurants, there were also mentorship sessions by some of Cebu’s esteemed bloggers as they talk about the ins-and-outs of food blogging and photography. Fun!
Upon arrival in Cebu, we checked in at Quest Hotel first and rested for a bit before heading to our first stop...
Back at my favorite-- QUEST HOTEL!
Mirrorfie as usual while waiting for Ana!
Hello, Cebu!
Dress: Pinklemonwear, Sneakers: Primadonna
First Stop: AZURE Beach Club at Crimson Resort & Spa
With unobstructed views of the skies above, the cool ocean breeze and a fine selection of cocktails and tipples, Azure Beach Club is an epic adventure from start to finish. Their outdoor seats enables you to enjoy nearby aquatic activities, and the finest combination of pick-me-ups that bring the tropics right to your glass. Take a seat in their cozy leather sofas and take in amazing live performances by fire-poi entertainers or simply lounge around and witness the DJ rounding up beats all throughout the evening.
The venue offers more than just breathtaking views but an experience on its own with the architecture carefully developed to embrace the natural beauty and charm of the beachfront location with its open concept design. The place features an Asian Grill restaurant with day and night menus, beach lounge area and a rock bar by the cliff for a perfect sundown cocktail and night cap.
Mojito and mojito jelly! So good!
Sangria
Ana enjoying her drink!
Wasn't able to get the name of the food they served but they're delicious!
Enjoying our mojito!
Azure Beach Club
Crimson Resort & Spa, Mactan
Seascapes Resort Town
Soong, Lapu-Lapu City, Mactan Island
Cebu 6015, Philippines
Tel: +63 32 401 9980
Email: mactan.azurebeachclub@crimsonhotel.com
2nd Stop: Kan-Anan at Cebu Parklane
Experience authentic Cebuano cuisine and relish their house specialties such as Lansyaw – stewed bull’s gonads, Ginabut – light battered internal organs – pork intestine, liver and pork heart, deep-fried and served with native sauce, Sutukil – fresh seafood cooked in three ways – sugba, tinola and kilaw, and many more! Kan-anan offers an array of Cebuano specialty dishes from North to South of Cebu without taking a single step!
Our long table!
Dessert table! Super sarap lahat!
Pungko-pungko is a popular term for food stalls with low benches along the streets of Cebu which sells assorted fried food.
Fried pork, liver and lumpia!
Tuslo Buwa sa Pasil corner! Tuslo Buwa is an exotic dish made of pork brain & liver with spices eaten with puso
(rice boiled in coconut fronds)
Siomai sa Tisa! Love how the resto showcased different specialties of different places in Cebu.
Chicken Proven sa Lahug! One of my faves that night. I went back mga 3x ata to refill my platito. Haha. This dish is made of a chicken's proventriculus (wow big word haha) , dipped in cornstarch, and deep-fried.
Kwek-Kwek and Fishball! Nommm
Chef explaining each dish
Just 1/4 of what they served. NOMMM
Kan-anan also offers Cebuano Buffet which features mouth-watering and delectable fresh from the grill dishes and a whole array of Cebuano cuisine for only Php399 net every Sunday to Thursday! What’s more, you could also get to enjoy live entertainment from Monday to Saturday while enjoying fresh air and city lights!
3rd Stop: DETOX BAR
The Detox Bar was put up by Studio 108 Fitness & Wellness Center. It features homegrown fresh organic vegetable and fruit juices as well as diet-friendly menu at low-cost. The Detox Bar offers: Plant-based Meal Delivery + Pre-order Ala Carte Meals + Detox Programs for Weightloss and Healing + Refreshing Health Drinks. If you want to start eating healthy, they could help you achieve that goal!
So homey!
Their mission is to offer simple, fresh and good food!
This small health bar cafe used to be inside the defunct Studio108 Fitness & Wellness Center—the very studio that Anne Dala created out of her advocacy to offer holistic regimen.
They served us Kare-Kare with bagoong (all veggies!), pasta, burger, etc! They're all made of veggies but they're super tasty and good.
MENU that day:
1. Sesame crusted tofu (vegan)
2. Cucumber canapes (vegetarian)
3. Black rice
4. Buckwheat noodles (carrots, sayote, lettuce, sesame dressing, nori strips)
5. Vegan sisig (soy protein, veggie meat with sayote, liquid aminos, vegetarian stir fry sauce, kalamansi)
6. Kare-kare (eggplant, stringbeans, squash, okra, spinach) with bagoong (made of vegetarian barbecue sauce with tomatoes and sili espada)
7. Vegan burger (patty is made of carrots and squash, whole wheat burger bun) + soya milk for the sauce called vegan mayo
Founded by Ms. Anna Dala in 2015!
4th Stop: 10 Dove Street Confectionary
Cute Christmas decors inside!
Cakes & pastries galore
We were served cupcakes, cakes, fruit cake, shakes, etc!
My favorite is their Mango cake!
So festive!
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5th Stop: UMA at Maayo Hotel
Uma offers the following gastronomic feasts from 6am to 2am:
• Weekday Lunch assortments from Soup, Salad, Cold Meat & Cheese /Sushi Sashimi and Sandwich buffet
• Weekend Brunch buffet includes lunch cooking demonstration for local and Asian Cuisine
• Weekend Dinner – Exceptional meat “Carvery Buffet”
Group pic!:)
Quick meet-up with readers! Thank you love you!
6th Stop: Rico's Lechon at Mactan Promenade
At Rico's they serve their lechon with precision and roasted/served to perfection. The original Rico's Lechon, which is located in Highway 77, Talamban Cebu City has been in business for almost 13 years now. They serve their lechon with ingredients (only garlic & leeks!) which penetrates the deepest part of one's taste buds!
Time to eat!
Loved the backed scallops and lechon sisig & sinigang. Okay, everything!
Mr. Enrico V. Dionson, proprietor of Rico's Lechon, invented the FIRST Rico's "SPICY" lechon. Wow! Thank you sir! Hehe. They also spearheaded the pack-and-ship lechon service. That's why it's the #1 lechon place in Cebu!
7th Stop: Sushisake at Radisson Blu Cebu
Sushisake is a 21-seater Japanese restaurant located in a corner of the lobby of Radisson Blu Cebu. This modern Japanese restaurant serves traditional sashimi, nigiri, makis, aburi & sakes! The food are prepared by the hotel's sushi & sashimi specialty chef, Mr. Jeff Yalung.
sake!
I just died and went to Sushi & Maki heaven!!! They served their signature Dynamite Roll, Spicy Crab, Surf & Turf & Special California.
Spicy Crab! Nommm
Winner this Chef's Special Set!!! (Sashimi, Nigiri & Spicy Maki)
Cutie ni Ana! Hehe
Fruits for dessert
Radisson Blu Cebu, Serging Osmeña Blvd., corner Juan Luna Ave.
6000 Cebu City
Phone (032) 402 9900
Mon - Sun: 6:00 pm - 11:00 pm
8th Stop: Montebello Villa Hotel
Christmas tree lighting event at Montebello!
Such a pretty tree
They have a game room and inavail namin ni Ana! So fun! Haha
This sweetie serenaded us. So cute!
Cheers!
Dinner time at La Terraza! It was Spanish Night--wine, tapas & paella!
OMG paella yaassss
Callos, lengua, etc!
Squid ink or black paella. YASSS.
9th Stop: CARDINAL COFFEA
You should try their famous cheese cake, special ensaymada and yema cake!
Sinful but worth it! Hokkaido cheesecake was the crowd favorite!
Chicken quiche!
Cor. Don Jose Avila St and Don Gil Garcia St
Cebu City
IG: @cardinalcoffea
Call (032) 888 7658
10th Stop: The Pyramid
Top from Basico PH!:)
Love the interiors! So IG worthy! The whole place is just super photogenic.
Aura pa more!
Wine room
Time to eat!!!
Rainbow cake anyone?
Macarons for lifeeee
Forgot what this is called but it's super good!!! It's fluffy and perfect with the cream.
Lunch is served! Guys, try out their pan fried salmon-- ang saraaaap!
West Geonzon Road Lahug, Cebu City
IG: @thepyramidcebu
Call: (032) 516 0254
11th Stop: Ayala Center Cebu for #CebuInstaFiesta Event
Our flight back to Manila was later that afternoon so we skipped this na. Next time will join! :) Thank you again to Cebu Bloggers Society & Sun Cellular for this amazing experience! The matakaw me was so happy. Haha. Can't wait for the next one!:)
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