Food City: Belucci's

It won’t come as a surprise to you when I say I am a die-hard “foody”. I go around the city in search for the next cool and quaint and sometimes weird places to eat at in my side of the town. And by town I mean the neighboring cities in manila (so as you can see, proximity is never really an issue when it comes to food). A gastronomic adventure won’t be complete without a full army of people who shares the same sentiments. In my case, I have Robee and AL - my cohorts in my appetizing expeditions. LOL.

Literally speaking, I live in between Manila and Quezon City. I even have trouble classifying myself if I am from one or the other. So anyway, I pass by Balete drive a few dozen times in a month. I happen to come across this tucked restaurant almost too small to see from my driving lane. So I stopped my car and tried to see if a restaurant does in fact exist there. Their signage that people can barely read doesn’t help either. It was right behind Secret Oven , a café I’ve been meaning to check out for so long. So in all “foody” fashion, I decided to dine there with Al. 

The place looks relatively new,although I would love for them to rethink their whole design for the place. All the chairs excluding the big couch, lacked character and looked like the chairs I would see in a fast food place. At this point, I was already kind of regretting why I came. The menu looked severely simple and you can actually feel the forced Italian veneer. We ordered the seafood pasta and the lots-of-meat pizza paired with red iced tea.

surprisingly, the food was OK. the seafood pasta was delicious although it was too dry and lacked color for my taste. it made us wonder if the other pasta options were a lot better. the pizza was good too, in it's own mediocre kind of way. for me,i 'd enjoy pizza as long as it's THIN CRUST. so there you go. we might go back soon to try their other options and maybe give them a second chance at life. LOL.

bottom line, if you want to be in seclusion with someone, this place may actually work for you. and it's CHEAP. sankapa! hahaha. the service was great as well that's why we gave them 2 and 1/2 stars over-all!