Another resto that will surely awaken your taste buds. Lucky for me its location is just a few walks from my office. My colleague invited me to Brew-Kus for lunch. She learned about it on Twitter, thanks to Click The City (and so I started following @ctctweets, too).
(Apologies for the photos, I didn’t have the chance to bring a good cam)
Brew-Kus is a new restaurant in Makati that started just in December 2011. It’s new in the business and I’m pretty sure it’s gonna go really far. As early as now, I’m looking forward to their next branches, hopefully somewhere near home so I can bring the whole family.
First try — great! Everything was exquisite. Here’s what we had for that Friday lunch.
Looking through the menu, we noticed a thumbs-up icon on some of the choices and we assumed it would be great to try at least one of those. And our first choice:
Wild Mushroom Pasta
A spaghetti pasta dressed in white sauce with mushrooms cut into little cubes. The taste was fantastic — I’d say it’s one of the best-tasting pasta I have tried. The ingredients were blended well and the taste go perfectly with every single strand of that spaghetti pasta. I enjoyed every munch of those little cut mushrooms.
Omelettes are not only best for breakfast. We also tried one called Nicoise at Php190.
It’s a tuna omelette with small cuts of fresh tomatoes, potatoes and baguio beans, and my favorite baked potato wedges on the side. I’ve tried a lot of potato wedges. I think I’ve mastered the taste already, but believe me, this one’s different — it has an extra flavor, an extra taste, something that’s more than the typical baked potato wedge. The saltiness was laid on perfectly with other spices.
Another pasta we tried was Pumpkin cream pasta.
It’s another great choice. This was the first time we tried pumpkin sauce on pasta, and it was good (my colleague is actually planning to do her own recipe of pumpkin sauce pasta at home). Aside from its I-can’t-get-enough-of-it taste, the chicken strips on top of it was cooked really perfect — very soft and the yumminess was just everywhere in that chicken, the greatness comes out of every bite. And it also has several strips of sweet onions called caramelized onions. Pastas are priced at Php250. It’s a pretty big serving.
(burp!)
We won’t go without the dessert. We had a Banana Foster — yeah!
As you can see, it’s a slice bread. But don’t be fooled because you might end up with a very big, heavy tummy after your meal. The bread is not the normal-sized sliced bread. The four of us were able to get quite a good amount, just right after a heavy pasta meal in just a single order of Banana Foster. So if you’re going to try the whole dessert for yourself, good luck on that. What I loved more about it — my favorite potato wedges on the side.
The Peach tea
I love tea and that’s what I ordered — a medium-sized cup of cold peach tea at Php70. It tastes like flower. Well, I haven’t tasted a flower (not yet), but the smell of a fragrant flower is similar to that peach tea that I didn’t need to try a real flower just to conclude that it tasted like one. One of my colleagues, Sam, actually said she remembers the church when she took a sip of it. Funny but I agreed.
You know what’s good about Brew-Kus? At first sight, you would notice the good presentation of food, it’s catchy, it looks really good. But as soon as you taste it, you’ll remember the taste more than the presentation, I guarantee that. Their cook must be good at placing the best amount of spices. It’s very impressive — just like a mommy’s specialty for the family.
For the four of us, our Php1200 was a great full meal complete with dessert and drinks.
That’s it. I’ll be back here for sure and will blog about “Brew-Kus — the breakfast edition,” so stay tuned.
The only time to eat diet food is while you’re waiting for the steak to cook. —Julia Child
Trips & Spices by Elaine Garcia 