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Celebration Salads! // An Appetite Magazine Exclusive

Posted by Arlu on Mar 10, 2012 in Featured, Food, Published, Thought Bubbles | 0 comments

Calling fans of all things green, crisp and crunchy! Happy to share our latest Resto6 column for Appetite Magazine, where we focused on bringing you the best salads in town. Hope you’re hungry!

On the Road with Jaded Pinkett Smith

Posted by Arlu on Sep 17, 2011 in Featured, Food, Travel | 6 comments

There is a magical time during a road trip when the entire vehicle falls silent, as its occupants simultaneously reach S.O., or Sightseeing Overload. In our case, it happened THE MOMENT we got to Tagaytay, as Anthony and I both noticed that Dug the Pug, in particular, had withdrawn into an icy silence. For Anthony, this meant one thing, and one thing only… “BURRITO TIME!”

Pageants and Pineapples // A Road Trip with Dug the Pug

Posted by Arlu on Sep 15, 2011 in Featured, Thought Bubbles, Travel | 2 comments

First of all, we wish to open this blog post with clapping — a full minute of it — as Anthony and I congratulate our very own Shamcey Supsup for a stellar showing at this year’s Miss Universe pageant, held two days ago in Sao Paolo, Brazil. Though I must admit that I used to be a bigger follower of pageants in my younger years — For some reason I feel the pageants of late seem to get less and less sophisticated — I know that in my heart of hearts, I will always derive a sense of excitement from the spectacle and color of it all.

Not-So Buon Giorno

Posted by Hello Balloon on Jun 10, 2011 in Food, Thought Bubbles | 2 comments

Last Saturday, Anthony and I, joined by my mom and Cristina, walked over to the Rockwell Business Center for a quick brunch. I almost settled for some hash browns at McDonald’s, until Cristina spotted Buon Giorno, an Italian restaurant which initially came with a lot of promise but, as you will see later, didn’t quite live up to its name, which, incidentally, means “Good day!”