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Jalapeño Cantina Mexicana review

By On September 1, 2011 · Leave a Comment

if you’re craving for authentic Mexican food, I think this is the closest you are going to get here in the Manila area. Don’t get me wrong, it’s nothing compared to the hole in the wall joints California but it’s definitely not your fast food “Mexican” food place.

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Wing Hub reviewed

By On August 10, 2011 · 2 Comments

I am not one to say no to an invitation offering chicken wings and beer. So, last night when my boyfriend suggested we try Wing Hub in Metrowalk, he didn’t get any objections from me.

I think the joint just opened recently. It’s really clean. Being a Sunday night, most of the patrons were with [...]

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Handuraw Pizza

Handuraw Pizza In Eastwood reviewed

By On August 1, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Our family loves deals on group buying sites. And so far, we have not had any bad experiences. Yesterday, we tried our Handuraw Pizza voucher

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Starbucks now accepting mobile payments

By On January 19, 2011 · Leave a Comment

BGR reported that all Starbucks outlets in the United States are now accepting mobile payments via an iOS app or a Blackberry app.

Just tap “touch to pay” in the app, hold it up to the scanner at the register and you’re off and running. Or slowly reconsidering ordering a 31oz blended [...]

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Domino’s pizza makes 1 million pounds off iPhone app in 3 months

By On January 6, 2011 · 1 Comment

The Next Web published a most interesting article. Dominos Pizza in the UK made 1 million pounds in just three months.

All thanks to its iPhone app.

The company’s website and app account for 35.9 percent of UK sales.

Demonstrating the power of smartphone apps and the ability to add [...]

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McDonald’s ($MCD) to get make over

By On October 21, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Fast Company says McDonald’s will have a makeover next year:

next phase, McDonald’s execs say, depends on design. “People eat with their eyes first,” says president and COO Don Thompson. “If you have a restaurant that is appealing, contemporary, and relevant both from the street and interior, the food tastes better.”

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Eat. Write. Love.

By On October 18, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Friends from Writers’ Block PH had a talk on Eating, Writing, and Loving— a food writing workshop. Dessert Comes First blog, published a photo essay of their meeting.

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A coder’s guide to coffee

By On September 2, 2010 · Leave a Comment


Tom Moertel wrote:

First things first. Mainstream coffee sucks, and specialty coffee mostly sucks. Mainstream coffee is primarily stale, low-quality, high-yield beans, many times cheap robustas, foisted on a largely unknowing public in supermarkets nationwide. Specialty coffee isn’t so much coffee as it is flavorings, sweeteners, and milk; what coffee [...]

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