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Quezon City healthy food haven Hillside Café is best known for its air-fried organic roast chicken and its delicious smoothies and juices.
But we get a feeling, people will be swinging by Hillside for other things besides.
Apart from Ugu Bigyan’s and Lanelle Abueva’s beautiful pottery, the 34-seater café is located inside the urban plant farm Cedarhills Garden Center. How refreshing and different is that?
But there’s more. Hillside Cafe just teamed up with the demigod chef of Katipunan favorite Ninyo Fusion Cuisine for a menu upgrade.
Starting July, the menu of Hillside Café will feature six creations by Chef Niño Laus — yes, he is the demigod chef. It rides on the same theme: healthy, organic, good-for-you, yum.
According to PJ Lanot, one of the Café’s owners, the six new dishes is just the beginning of their partnership with Chef Niño. Come October, Hillside will feature another half a dozen new offerings from Chef Niño.
But that’s getting ahead of the story. Look at the photos of the new 6 dishes and salivate.
Hillside Cafe. 57 Mother Ignacia Ave., Quezon City. +63 2 3741117. 11:30am-9pm
Pesto-crusted Chicken Parmagiana (PHP395). Comes with chickpeas, edemame and sweet corn, or zucchini aglio e olio
Corned Grass-fed Beef Short Ribs (PHP415). Comes with polenta and buttered vegetables
Roasted Potato and Eggplant (PHP195). Miso-glazed, fried bean curd, and arugula
Pan-seared Grass-fed Hanging Tender Steak (PHP495). Comes with organic fried rice, pumpking sour cream sauce, and miso-roasted vegetables
Oat and Rye Crusted Local Halibut (PHP465). Comes with mussels, Spanish chorizo, and aglio e olio pasta
Roasted Organic Chicken (PHP365). Comes with mashed sweet potato and roasted vegetables
