Comfort Food 101: The Ultimate List to Brighten Up Your Day

Whether you are stressed at work, burned out at grad school, fuming because of your lover's spat or simply bitter because Valentine's day couples kept rubbing into your face that you will be forever alone, this post is made especially for you! Some people may call it stress eating, but screw them. Sometimes, it's just best for your sanity to throw all caution into the wind and indulge into that craving you've been suppressing since time immemorial.

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Feeling Tipsy or Staying Sober? Have it Your Way at Tipsy Beans!

I remember it was just early this year that my office mate and good friend, Sybil mentioned to me that she and her husband were planning to put up a coffee shop together with a few friends and their in-laws. No, this isn't your typical, generic and around the corner coffee shop. The main idea of Tipsy Beans can be summarized in two options: Tipsy or Sober? I was intrigued by the concept that I  committed to myself that I'd try dining there once it opened.

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Office Packed Lunch [Series]: Cheesy Tuna Pesto With Black Olives

Apologies for the erratic posting. I've been so negligent with trying to maintain regular blog posts lately, and it's not that I'm dead beat to do it, but because I've been favoring other activities like voracious reading and movie marathons. Baaaaaaaaaaad. Must make use of my paid domain name! :P

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Team Dinner Date @Pizza Hut

You probably must be muttering to yourself right now, "Pizza Hut again?!?". Well I can't blame you if you feel that way, but don't blame me for the repetition because Pizza Hut is one of the few pizza and pasta places I like going back to. Good cozy ambiance + good food, what's not to like?

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Joey Pepperoni Pizzeria [Embracing My Inner Italian Part II]

Count on me to always order dishes that aren't a restaurant's best sellers. Maybe half the time, that's the reason why I end up being disappointed after a pig out session. So, one time I mustered up enough self control and revisited Joey Pepperoni Pizzeria. Why? Two things: The service is A+ and the last time I went there, I didn't order any of their best sellers, I didn't even order a pizza. :P

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Joey Pepperoni Pizzeria

Pizza and Pasta places have been multiplying in numbers and with so many places to choose from, you just have to go for it some time and set out on a new adventure. I'm not really the type of person who heads to a restaurant straight up when it's just newly opened. Like other normal people, I wait for the hype, let it cool down a bit, and then pay a visit. :)

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Getting A Wee Bit Audacious With Greenwich

Meatball Spaghetti Supreme Meal

Php 99.00 or $ 2.24

When Greenwich comes to mind, my mind auto pilots towards their best sellers, dish staples that I'm sure a lot of people constantly order each and every time. On our last visit to Greenwich, I decided to steer clear of my staple orders and try something different, they do have expanded their menu to such a variety that seems worth trying.

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BFF Date at Pizza Hut Bistro

Olive Garden Salad

Php 159.00 or $ 3.64

A day before Batch goes back to Bicol, we decided to try the controversial Pizza Hut Lechon Pizza. This was the same week that I stayed at her apartment, Batch met up with a friend of hers that morning so I just followed after a few hours. I overslept, plus the traffic was horrendous from Makati to Mandaluyong, so when we caught up with each other, I was really famished not having to eat any breakfast yet for that day.

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Dinner At Don Henrico's

Summer Salad 

Php 240.00 or $ 5.44 

Last week, I met up and stayed at my BFF's apartment for almost a week. The first night I arrived with Joey, I was running on near empty energy because I only had brunch earlier, slept the afternoon away, met up with Joey before 7PM, commuted with my big Speedo gym bag (thanks dude for carrying it for me!), stopped by SM North to buy a wireless router for their apartment (which was really great because I only used my iPod Touch the whole stay and not bring my big HP dv5) and finally headed straight to the apartment.

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Heaven On Earth With Sbarro's Baked Ziti

1/2 Baked Ziti with Alfredo Sauce

Php 96.00 or $ 2.19

The name may fool you and think that it's one of those fancy schmancy pizza and pasta places but you are in for a treat because Sbarro is one of the few places left where you get the ultimate combination of great atmosphere + affordable prices + yummy food.

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Yellow Cab Pizza Co.

For people working in offices 8 hours or more daily, it's just common to get so caught up in their work that's why online food ordering and speedy delivery is heaven sent, or sometimes you just go craving just because you can't get that darn awesome pizza you had out of your mind, just a few days before, courtesy of your officemate's obligatory office birthday treat.

BF and I are specially fond of Yellow Cab's New York's Finest and Brooklyn's Pizza's White Pizza(whew! that's a lot of 's!!!) because the taste is superb and delivery time is on the dot each and every order, and somehow we missed all of that since we worked at home for almost a year for a software development company just starting up.

I keep on pestering BF from time to time to grab something from Yellow Cab and maybe even finally try their famous Charlie Chan Chicken Pasta which I keep reading good comments about. So one day, he finally gave in and even paid for everything. *grin*

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Greenwich: Big Time Lunch

Big Time Lunch C + French Fries

Php 129.00 or $ 2.93 (Big Time Lunch C)

Php 49.00 (Solo Fies) - Php 89.00 (Sharing) or $ 1.11 - $ 2.02

Greenwich has been my go to place when I wanted to satisfy my pizza and pasta cravings and stay within my budget, since it practically has a lot of branches nationwide which has made it very convenient for us customers and they happen to serve my favorite version of lasagna which I think, in my own humble opinion even surpasses Goldilocks' version of lasagna.

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A Veneto Pizzeria Ristorante

A few weeks ago, I met up with my BFF and stayed at her apartment for the weekend, we were supposed to renew our NBI Clearances come Monday morning and so we went to Makati Park Square. Having been on the run that weekend and running on not enough sleep, I was feeling really off earlier that Monday morning and begged my friend to hurry up withdrawing from her ATM. The ATM somehow sensed my ill feelings and didn't cooperate! I think I spent 15-20 minutes half standing and half trying to lean on the side of the ATM machine while my friend tried to withdraw cash.

Since I haven't tried dining in A Veneto Pizzeria Ristorante and my friend really raves about their food, so we mutually agreed to dine there. After ordering our drinks came first, mine was iced tea while my friend's choice was lemonade. After a few sips I felt really sick and like the liquid was rising up my throat, (eeew, I know, sorry for grossing anyone out), good thing I managed to reach the comfort room. After that little incident, I started feeling a wee bit better. Thank God because we had a jam-packed day ahead of us.

My friend wanted her greens and so she ordered their Chef's Salad. I tried to have some and boy, those green olives are sooo salty! The salad was average though.

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Brothers Burger

I met up with a friend a few weekends ago. It was late and we were both hungry, I literally had Burgoo in mind because I wanted to taste the Seafood Jambalaya, but what I said to my friend was that we dine in Brother's Burger. Hehe, stupid right?

My friend had this for her order. Come to think of it, I don't know what it's called. It's 3 mini cute burgers with some french fries on the side. Don't be fooled by the size because my friend only finished one mini burger and the fries.

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