Celebrating our 3rd yr Wedding Anniversary

Yesterday marked the 3rd year of wedding bliss.

I initially had planned for an overnight stay in Tagaytay on Fri-Sat since I felt I needed to relax after all the recent travels. I did cancelled our reservation for One Tagaytay Place and opted to have dinner in a nice restaurant here in Manila instead.

The day didn't exactly started right. Sean fell of the bed around 3 am. We didn't had any bed frame anymore since Sophia fell off the bed a few months ago. We thought he's fine but in the morning, his eyelid is somehow sore and he had a lump/swell near the ears. With the fear that it might get complicated (heard of horror stories for babies falling off the bed), I rushed him to the hospital. After a thorough check, the doctor said he should be fine but we should observe him for any other signs like vomitting and blackening of the lump.

At around 1030am, I got an SMS from my colleague saying I got flowers. I was indeed surprised and thrilled. That's the reason why Che kept on calling me and asking me whether I will still report to work. I arrived office around noon and saw this...

I initially thought it will be peach roses which is what I have always wanted back in College. But this was just perfect as it reminded me of our wedding with pink and green motiff.

Che asked me to choose the restaurant. I was craving for a good salad, steak and anything with foie gras and so I had the following in mind:

• Lolo Dad's - along Quirino hi-way which I pass by always and have heard this is really one of the best restaurants in town
• Spiral at Sofitel - mainly because it is an easy choice and my favorite place for buffet
• Highlands Steakhouse - because they serve really good steak!
• Duo - at Serendra and heard good reviews about this place as well

Given that I wanted to try something new, Spiral and Highlands Steakhouse were taken out of the list. I called up Lolo Dad's and although I expected this to be an expensive place, I don't think I was prepared to dine with Php 2700++ price tag per person for a complete course meal. Maybe some other time! Haha.

And so Duo it is!

I went to pick-up Che in Makati so we can just use one car and then we headed off to The Fort. I heard good reviews about Duo and the price tag seems reasonable so I was pretty excited.

We got the following:

Tessie Tomas Salad (Large) - costs about P790 shared for 2

This is a bed of greens with salmon, roasted prawn, shitake mushroom with some balsamic dressing. It's yummy! I think some salad tastes the same but what makes it special are the combination of prawns, mushroom and salmon.

Then we had..

French Onion Soup - Didn't quite like it. Not the best French Onion Soup i've tried

For main course, we opted to go for Steak DUO combinations.

I had Steak and Duck Foie Gras while Che had Surf and Turf. I was too excited to eat it and thus failed to take a picture :)

The steak (around 120g) was good. The Foie Gras as usual is good but there is a guilt feeling every bite you take. I didn't really enjoy the potato gratin and the vegetable siding.

We were supposed to get dessert but we were quite full already. Maybe next time I'll try the DUO combination also which includes chocolate decadence, cheesecake, panacotta and tiramisu!

Overall, we did enjoyed it. Total price tag of P2700 which was not that bad.

Then we grabbed some take out desserts (French Apple Pie and Bananalicious) from Conti's which was right next to DUO. I will eat my Bananalicious today! :)