(Chicago) – I heard some good feedbacks from my friends about the food at Sola. When I saw this place available in restaurant.com, I quickly bought a $25 gift certificate for a cheaper price. However, these coupons have a lot of restrictions. For instance, it can only be used during weekdays, excluding Fridays, which is perfect for me; I prefer that. I hate it when my food experience is affected by annoying crowd and long wait times just to get a table. So it is a slow Wednesday summer night, I am off to Sola to validate what I heard through the grapevine. The ambiance is neat and classy. Not…
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Coobah, Latino-Filipino Fusion
(Chicago) – It is fairly typical nowadays to find restaurants offering fusion cuisines with Asian dishes. But the word “Asian”, in most cases, refers only to Chinese, Japanese, Thai or Vietnamese. There are very few attempts to fuse with Filipino food. Coobah is one of those bold restaurants in Chi-town that presents Latino dishes with distinct Filipino flair. To see traces of Philippine gastronomic terms, like “lumpia” and “Bicol” in their menu, thrills me highly and at same time, arouses my curiosity on how creative the chef is, in incorporating Filipino taste in their Latino-packaged dishes.
