Lunch at Earth Cafe

At one end of Silangan Gardens, a small café sits in a corner, with white garden chairs strewn around the area. The place is Earth Café, owned and managed by husband and wife team, Ricci and Irene Gurango. In case Chef Ricci’s name is familiar, he was one of the members of the band Mojofly. They used to run a personal dining place, Laya. Last year, they decided to close down Laya and moved it here in Pinto Art Museum.

Laya is a private kitchen offering exclusive and intimate dining on weekends only. But for lunch and afternoon snacks, there’s the in-house all day Earth Cafe serving meals that changes every week.

The culminating part of my Pinto experience is lunch with my friend Maritess. We chose to sit down at a table at the end of one of the galleries.

For starters, we had the lemon grass and ginger cooler, refreshing, soothing and not too sweet.

I wanted a light lunch and opted for the Thai Tomato Basil soup. It was light, perfectly seasoned with basil… While Tess frowned on the bits of tomato skin, I love the texture it gives on the soup.

For the next course, I had the free-range chicken in Tarragon cream sandwich. It came with a side salad of greens and sliced carrots. Tess chose the free-range chicken and mushroom patty sandwich. Tess and I seldom see each other and when we do, we forget other things except talk. That’s why I can’t say much about our sandwiches. J but I enjoyed what I ordered. It’s something that I would make a point to look for the recipe and try at home

the bill came in small wooden chest. :)

We didn’t have desserts. A sweet tooth and dessert person that I am, I chose not to have one because it was already time for us to go on with our appointments – Tess to fetch her apo from school while I need to go back to Valley Golf to pick up M. Dessert would make a nice excuse for me to go back to Pinto Gallery soon.