Celebrating 18 years and National Pizza Day, California Pizza Kitchen offered buy 1 take 1 pizzas this August 14-15.
Just order any of their regular pizzas and you get to choose one free pizza from these flavors: Caprese, Hawaiian Pepperoni, Salami + Bacon, Italian Sausage and Pepper, and Traditional Cheese. Plus, if you are one of the first 10 customers, you get a free shirt!
Farmer's Choice
Their Pizzawars winning pizza, the Farmer's Choice pizza, makes their debut. It has a roasted pumpkin base instead of tomato sauce.
A generous amount of mozzarella cheese serves as the next layer . And for toppings, it has zucchini, eggplant, and cherry tomatoes instead of meat. Desiccated coconut is sprinkled on the pizza too.
Fresh from the oven, the aroma of pumpkin filled the air. The pumpkin was sweet and creamy and it matches the gooey cheese well. Really, it was a tasty vegetable pizza. This pizza can be characterized by its natural sweetness from the pumpkin and coconut. It is different take on pizza that's usually on the savory side.
Free Pizza
For our free pizza, we ordered Salami + Bacon pizza to go. Two meats embody the savory pizza we are all familiar with.
Shirt!
Here's photo right before we finished the Farmer's Pizza.
Branch visited located at Entertainment Mall, SM Mall of Asia, Pasay City
Nipa Hut / Motoyori restaurant in Pasig is a place where you can get Filipino food (and Japanese food). Being at an elevated place, the winds are a tiny bit colder. The entrance and a part of the restaurant resembles a Nipa Hut which also serves as the no smoking area.
Outside, there is also a dining area for those who want more of the breeze and view while eating. The view offers a nearby look at the city (and houses) with a backdrop of the tall buildings along with a sight of some mountains. This place could have an awesome view at night when the buildings and houses are all lit up.
Here we ordered two Filipino food set meals that we got for a discounted price thanks to another online discount voucher.
Banana heart is not something I eat often. But I am glad that this Kilawin Puso ng Saging was good. “Kilawin” implied that it had vinegar. I was expecting something very sour but the dish is also pleasantly sweet. The brownish color hinted it had something along the lines of soy sauce, and the sweetness meant it also had some sort of sugar to balance the taste. There were also tiny bits of pork mixed in it.
Bulalo is a soup known to have a rich beef flavor along with rich beefy oils. It may also have marrow or tendons. This version’s meat was tender and the soup had a beef taste.
This crispy pata has the crispy skin lined with fat and tender pork.
Here we have Chicharon bulaklak. It is a variation of chicharon made from the fat along the pig’s intestine.
For seafood, we had sizzling bangus (milk fish), topped with mixed vegetables. The fish was seasoned and buttered.
Also included in the two set meals are Pork BBQ and Lumpia.
We visited this place earlier and tried a different set meal, also using a discount voucher. Here are the dishes we had.
I liked the kare-kare with their generous amount of the pumpkin and peanut mixture. It is like pumpkin soup but better because of the peanut taste, pork, and vegetables in it.
We also had inihaw na pla-pla with atchara, tomatoes and chopped green mango on the side, and sisig for something grilled and sizzled.
Below are the three set meals we had:
Set 1: Kare Kare, Inihaw na Pla Pla, Crispy Sisig (previous visit)
Set 2: Bulalo Soup, Sizzling Boneless Bangus, 3pcs BBQ, Chicharon Bulaklak
Set 3: Whole Crispy Pata, 15 Pcs. Lumpiang Shanghai, Kilawin Puso ng Saging
My personal favorites are the Kilawin Puso ng Saging, Kare-kare and Bulalo.
Overall, the meat in their food was tender, the ingredients they used tasted fresh and the food was not overpoweringly seasoned. The breezy view is a plus too.
End of school year food trip celebration at Ginza Bairin, UP Town Center last March 2014.
Mixed Set A: Hire, Prawn, RosuVegetable Kushi Katsu Set
Katsu cravings satisfied. With crispy katsu plus unlimited servings of side dish and rice, you are sure to get a full, satisfied stomach. We ordered a Mixed Katsu Set (Prawn, Hire, Rosu) and a Vegetable Katsu Set (veggies and quail eggs on skeweres with katsu breading)
Freebie! Black sesame Ice cream
Want dessert? They had an ongoing promo at that time. All you need is to upload a photo of your Ginza Bairin dining experience and post it on your social media account (we posted on instagram) and you get a free ice cream of your chosen flavor. We chose black sesame since it was the most unusual among the three choices.
*This is a backlog post. Food expedition was made more than a month prior to publishing of this post.
