There was a holiday last week, I forgot what day, basta, Oyen and I went on a culinary adventure in Laguna and Quezon. We joined Corporate Travel’s day tour on a very luxurious bus called Luxe.
Oh, it was on August 13, wednesday.
Pick-up time was at 6:30 but we arrived at 6:40 am. But there’s another person who came 10 minutes after we did.
After a half-hour delay due to C5 heavy traffic, we picked up a few more people from another gas station in SLEX. It was also a weewee break for some. Oyen and I stayed in our comfortable seats.
The bus was like being in the plane’s business class. They had two cabin crew a la stewardess. The seats were plush leather, each with touch screen tv, with choices of movies at your fingertips.
Drinks were bottomless. There was even a demonstration of the safety features of the bus. The crew has memorized her lines very well.
It was a very comfortable ride to Laguna, I didn’t even notice that we were already at the entrance of SULYAP Gallery Cafe & Restaurant because I was engrossed watching a movie. Ni hindi ko napansin kung saan kami dumaan. I didn’t even want to get off the bus because I haven’t finished the movie.
Sulyap was where we had our native Filipino breakfast.
There were 24 of us, including the owners and staff of Corporate Travel and Tours.
I was pleasantly surprised with Sulyap’s theme. I didn’t even know that there’s such a nice restaurant to go just off Manila.
Malapit lang ito if you bring your own car kasi diretso lang and kung walang bwisit na traffic, of course.
Our breakfast was pre-fixed and was served on the second floor of this well-preserved 100 year old Spanish era house.
The owner of Sulyap, Architect Roy was the one who prepared our breakfasts. He also graciously answered questions about his passion for old things.
He told me he found this house in Quezon. Abandoned and taken for granted because the owners were already settled in the US. He bought it for P40,000 but spent a total of P1,200,000 to uproot it from Quezon, transfer to San Pablo, and rebuilt it piece by piece, wood by wood which took a whole of eight months to finish.
The expense was all worth it. It’s so pretty and authentic.
I love the bentanilyas, and open wide windows.
Internet is annoyingly slow. It’s taking forever to load photos. I’ll continue later.
