Something's strangely delicious awaits you at Nobu Restaurant

As soon as I entered the Nobu Restaurant, my senses were competing against one another. My eyes kept wandering as they try to devour the unique interiors and fixtures that adorned every corner of the hotel restaurant. My sense of smell was trying to search for the aromatic feast. As I heard the wait staff briskly walking in an out of the kitchen doors.

My taste buds felt like it wanted to jump out and everything made me feel its going to be a great start of the day. The one breakfast dish that caught my attention was the Champorado Nobu Style with Bacon furikake. It had me on its thick chocolatey cocoa flavor with bacon's slight crunchy saltiness on top, it was heavenly good, I tell you, I finished one and ordered another bowl. I highly recommend this on top of their other breakfast signature dishes.

Nobu Restaurant is a contemporary fine dining venue which accommodates 335 dining guests. It has a two private dining rooms; a sushi bar; floating water cabanas; two tepanyaki tables and a Chef's Table. I got to experience Nobu's Breakfast Specialties and its delectable and mouth watering buffet last June 6 with selected bloggers. We were greeted at the restaurant lobby by the General Manager of Nobu Hotel Manila, Mr. Marlon Hirsh, we had pleasantries about the restaurant's interior, breakfast specialties and its signature dishes. He toured us on the hotel rooms, spa and gym after a hearty breakfast.

 We were served the best Breakfast Minis, all the food served tasted and cooked the way I liked my breakfast should be. It concludes of the following;

French toast

Shioyaki (Chef's Daily Grilled Protein Selection)

Champorado Nobu Style (Chocolate Rice Porridge with Bacon Furikake)

Samplers from the buffet table

Silken Tofu Hotpot

City of Dreams Manila  consists of 6 hotel towers which include the famous Nobu Hotel and the world's most recognized restaurant Nobu Restaurant.   Chef Nobuyuki "Nobu" Matsuhisa takes pride on its fusion cuisine blending traditional Japanese dishes with South American ingredients. 

The buffet table boasts of sumptuous and delectable menus for those who want to start their day right. Their Breakfast Specialties are,  Yuzu Soba Pancakes; Green Tea Waffles; Eggs Matsuhisa; Bagel and Lox; Breakfast Tobanyaki; Salmon and Egg Donburi.

Their Signature Dishes includesToro Tartar with Caviar; Yellowtail Sashimi with Jalapeno; Whitefish firadito Style; Salmon New Style; Rock Shrimp Creamy Spicy; Squid Pasta; Black Cod Miso; Beef Tobanyaki; Bento Box Dessert.

Signature Cocktails available are  Matsuhisa Martini; Pins Martini; Mango Passion; Mia Margarita; Yamasaki Sidecar, Lychee Martini; Champagne 95.

Chef Nobu Matsuhisa’s culinary empire spans through 36 restaurants, in 28 cities and five continents. Guests at the Nobu Hotel City of Dreams Manila will be able to savor his signature contemporary artistic fusion and mouthwatering cuisine.


Nobu Restaurant is located at Level 1 of the Pool Deck, Nobu Hotel. It is open from 6:00AM to 10:00AM  on weekdays, until 11:00AM on weekends 6:00PM -11:00PM.
Executive Chef:  Zachary Hillberry
Restaurant Manager:  Casper Khamphouy

Nobu Lounge is a chic, modern, Japanese-inspired lobby lounge exuding a relaxed but sophisticated atmosphere which can seat 50 guests.  Baristas and tea tenders take guests on a “taste and sense” adventure as they offer an extensive tea menu, premium coffees and homemade cakes, pastries and chocolates. Operating hours is from 7:00AM to 12MN. High Tea is from 2:00PM to 5:00PM

Pandesuelo and long forgotten pinoy breads at Kamuning Bakery

I celebrate my Independence Day together with selected bloggers, being a patriotic foodie at the famous Kamuning Bakery Cafe, where all the politicians /celebrities from yesteryears and today has dined in including the late Pres. Cory Aquino. It was nostalgic as well, as I had to taste my favorite filipino pastries like the pandesuelo (its a freshly pugon baked pandesal, which is sweet and filling and best served hot)   and ogled at the bakery racks for their pandecocos, panderosas, meringues and other Kamuning Bakery's delicacies.  The best part was when the  owner, Wilson Lee Flores, toured us at his bakery and showed us the 76th year old giant "pugon" oven, where all the traditional breads, cookies and cakes "preservatives free" are baked.

With fellow bloggers at the big "pugon" site

The Kamuning Bakery Cafe offers the best filipino-inspired pastas that I have tasted,  I liked their chicken sisig pasta, tawilis pasta, and the longganisa pasta. They also served the best selling Kamuning Chicken Basket with pandesuelos which is juicy, delicious and tasty the way I liked my chicken, home fried and its best to partner with garlic rice.  Inside the restaurant /cafe is the  imported Italian coffee maker machine which they used for making the best  Benguet province Arabica coffee beans brewed into latte or cappuccino or other drinks and native chocolate tablea drinks.

Despite the rise of bakery chains, groceries with gas or electric ovens and industrial bakeries or multinational giants, 76-year-old Kamuning Bakery still continues to serve loyal clientele and its niche market with its artisanal, high-quality and pugon-style baked products.

chicken sisig pasta

tawilis pasta

longganisa pasta

coffee maker

On its 76th year and seeking to still be relevant in the 21st century, Quezon City’s first bakery the revived Kamuning Bakery has restored its old café to serve all-day breakfast meals of diverse pasta choices, rice meals or sandwiches with Third Wave or artisanal coffee, tea, juices, chocolate tablea.

Tuna clubhouse sandwich

The artisanal and pugon-style bakery still opens daily at 5 a.m., while its restored and now air-conditioned Kamuning Bakery Café is open from 7 a.m. to 12 midnight daily in the same address since 1939: No. 43 Judge Jimenez Street corner K-1st Street, Kamuning, Quezon City (near Caltex of Kamuning Road).

It has also revived a lot of its old traditional breads, cookies and cakes, plus adding modern cakes of all kinds baked in its antique pugon or wood-fired brick oven, such as birthday or wedding cakes, and many others. The No. 1 bestseller is still the pugon-baked Pan de Suelo breads. Since 1939, a lot of showbiz and political celebrities, writers, musicians, artists and people from all walks of life patronize Kamuning Bakery.

Kamuning Chicken Basket

Pandesuelos with Ice Cream

To differentiate it from many foreign cafes and bakeries coming to the Philippines from the West and Asia, Kamuning Bakery’s new owner and writer Wilson Lee Flores introduced Filipino-inspired innovations like chicken sisig pasta, tawilis pasta, longganisa pasta, Kamuning iced tea, Kamuning chicken basket (traditional fried chicken),

Strawberry Cake 

Hot Chocolate

Jonel Uy and Wilson Lee Flores

Short history

Kamuning Bakery opened in late 1939 as the first bakery in the newly-established Quezon City upon the invitation of President Manuel L. Quezon’s friend and adviser the newspaper tycoon Don Alejandro Roces. It opened in what is now called Barangay Kamuning, the city’s oldest community and once planted with flowering kamuning trees. Kamuning Bakery founders were Atty. Leticia “Letty” Bonifacio Javier (whose parents Miguel and Jovita operated pre-war Manila’s renown Los Baños Bakery in Singalong) and her husband Marcelo Javier Sr.

Letty’s father, husband and a brother-in-law were military officers who became World War II heroes, they died fighting the Japanese military invaders. Letty raised three small kids on her own by running the bakery with integrity, good service and excellent breads.  She passed away two decades ago and the bakery still operated despite the rise of many modern and bigger competitors.

Revival and innovations

Realty entrepreneur, 3-time Palanca award-winning writer & 12-time CMMA award-winning columnist, foodie and history enthusiast Wilson Lee Flores first read about Kamuning Bakery from newspaper columns of his Ateneo college paper Guidon’s moderator the late top food critic Dr. Doreen G. Fernandez. He also read about it in other publications, including the Palayok coffeetable book of Dr. Doreen Fernandez. He loves the traditional pugon-baked, no-preservatives and no-additives breads of Kamuning Bakery.

Wilson Lee Flores wanted to save Kamuning Bakery from obsolescence, so he invested in and revived the bakery in December 2013. He spent 2014 rehabilitating the bakery, and Quezon City honored the revived Kamuning Bakery on October 12, 2014 with its highest “Manuel L. Quezon Gawad Parangal Award” at the Araneta Coliseum.

He asked an old tenant to cut short their lease contract of the bakery’s former old café which was then a dental clinic already, so he restored and reopened it as Kamuning Bakery Cafe  on March 20, 2015.

At another space the old owners used to lease out to a printing shop, Wilson Lee Flores also asked that the lease contract be cut short, so he’s planning another casual restaurant to soon open there beside Kamuning Bakery as a pugon chicken & pugon pizza resto utilizing the rehabilitated second pugon oven. All pugon chicken customers shall get free pugon-baked pandesal breads.


Kamuning Bakery makes artisanal breads, cookies and cakes based on recipes and practices passed on from generation to generation. Built in late 1939, the same wood-fired brick oven (more known as “pugon”) continues to bake traditional bestsellers, two of which are the pan de sal and pan de suelo (a registered trademark of the bakery).

Kamuning Bakery Cafe is more than just a bakery. It is a cherished and well-preserved tradition. It is history made alive with quality products and sincere friendly service.


Contact details
Kamuning Bakery Cafe
No. 43 Judge Jimenez Street corner K-1st Street, near Kamuning Road, Quezon City, Metro Manila, The Philippines
Telephone numbers: 7945045, 9292216
Office Tels: 4112311, 3326066, 4151692, 4126685   Telefax: 4126685

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Powermac Center unveils the latest lifestyle accesories at PH Fashion Week

Power Mac Center partners for the first time with The Philippine Fashion Week last June 12, at the SM Aura in staging digital tech vibe collaborated with six fashion-forward lifestyle accessories brands making their way to the local runways—Beats by Dr. Dre, Happy Plugs, Casemate, Moshi, Gosh!, and Knomo London. With top designers, Mixy Dy, Lyle Ibanez, Sidney Perez Sio, Jian Lasala, Boyet Dysangco, Anthony Nocom and Audie Ae.

As the Official Technology Retail Partner of the country’s grandest fashion extravaganza, Power Mac Center takes inspiration in bringing together technology and style to glam up the experience of Manila’s fashion glitterati for three days filled with fashion, lifestyle and beauty.

Power Mac Center’s debut on the Philippine Fashion Week runways turns the spotlight on mobile accessories, showcasing global lifestyle brands that serve up mobile accessories as fashion statement pieces and must-haves in the digital era.

“This has been one of the most exciting ventures for Power Mac Center, and we are delighted to work together with Philippine Fashion Week. Our synergy is a reflection of fashion and technology crossing paths to bring about stylish mobile accessories that deliver a visual feast of style, color and texture,” said Power Mac Center Marketing Director Joey Alvarez.

“in joining Philippine Fashion Week, Power Mac Center sets a footprint in the fashion circuits as well as push the boundaries for creativeness and versatility in the digital lifestyle realm,” added Mr. Alvarez.

Becoming sleek additions to the Philippine Fashion Week are Power Mac Center brand ambassadors and their mobile accessories brands: Jeron Teng for Beats by Dr. Dre; Gretchen Ho for Happy Plugs; Daniel Matsunaga for Moshi; Mari Jasmine for Case- Mate; Rovilson Fernandez for Goshl; and Vanessa Matsunaga for Knomo London.

*photo credits:  PH Fashion Week