Recommendations for Finest Dining Places in Cebu, Places for Great Dates

[friedrich]

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@ejram: thanks for the info...

[aleyson]

1.golden cowrie
2. cafe george, krua thai, la tegola, kagura and 10 dove st.
3. shangri-la, waterfront, marriot

[friedrich]

bros, ask lng ko for more info about sa location sa moon cafe...
asa jd ni xa dapita sa guadalupe, daplin ra ni xa sa main road sa going to guadalupe church
or sudlonon pa ni xa?....
pls. give me some landmarks going there...

thanks in advance!

[Orange77]

My suggestions:

1. Reasonably priced: Arranos (Guadalupe) Spanish Restaurant


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[Orange77]

Sorry...did a booboo on my other post. anyway, to continue...

My suggestions for date places are:

1. Reasonably priced:  Arranos (Spanish Restaurant) in Guadalupe, Qstick also in Guadalupe (try the ribs, P85 only)
2. Medyo Mahal:          La Tegola Banilad
3. Expensive: Romantic Rendezvous package at Plantation bay wherein you can dine in any of their romantic spots...you have a special table just for you and your special someone (no other diners within 50 feet of you), excellent set dinner with wine and Champagne, served by your own personal butler, there's a boquet of roses for the lady and a serenader. spots include a table by the beach, a table inside the gazebo which is surrounded by their lagoon or a table on top of their waterfalls and you can have live sidetable cooking.

[marc_b]

carlitos way steak house sa as fortuna,ok ra ang price nya mingaw

[spookey]

Guys, do you know a school or learning centers that teaches fine dining? Seeing a table with knives, spoons and forks of all sizes is quite overwhelming. As we climb to the corporate ladder, I believe it would be a good idea to know such things so that we won't get embarrassed in front of the big people of our company.

[Ms.Beau]

hmmmm interesting interest

i think most image/personality development centers offer courses on this. and perhaps culinary schools too. just not sure. will research on this.

[tolstoi]

you don't have to enroll in a formal lessons just to know the simple dining etiquette..you can ask google.

http://www.cuisinenet.com/digest/cus..._setting.shtml

http://www.cuisinenet.com/digest/cus...ger_food.shtml

http://www.cuisinenet.com/digest/cus...pitfalls.shtml

http://www.cuisinenet.com/digest/cus...in_howto.shtml

http://www.cuisinenet.com/digest/cus...il_howto.shtml
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Here's a great tip

The first part of the meal comes: the appetizers. But what utensil should you use? You can find the answer in…

GENERAL TIP #3: Use your utensils from the outside in

The fork furthest to the outside is the one you should use for the appetizer. When the next part of the meal comes, use the next outermost fork, and so on. Same deal goes for the spoons and knives. If you're in a fancy restaurant or a party at Buckingham Palace, you might be lucky enough to have waiters who will remove any utensils you won't need. But even if you do not have this luxury, we still implore: use your brains! You won't use a knife to eat your soup. You won't use a spoon to eat your salad. But let's say that you lose track of your utensils and get lost. Then, proceed to…

GENERAL TIP #4: If you're not sure what to do, wait and see what your neighbor does. If that offers no clue, then just fake it :mrgreen:

Chances are, nobody's watching you closely enough to see that you're using your dinner fork instead of the salad fork (the salad fork is the smaller one). Don't draw attention to yourself. Don't make a big deal of it. Just take a guess and eat. If you used the wrong utensil, the waiter will bring you a replacement.

Here is the proper technique for using a fork and knife. Assuming you are right-handed, hold the fork in your left hand and knife in your right. With the tines facing downward (curving towards you), hold down an end-piece of whatever you are cutting (let's assume it's meat). Do not hold the knife or fork like a dagger, but rather, place your index finger along the top of each utensil, holding each at the end. This gives you greater control without looking like you're hacking into the poor dead animal. Gently, using a sawing motion, cut the meat near the tines of the fork, so that you have one bite-sized piece. Then, lay the knife down (without allowing it to touch the table), and switch the fork (complete with pierced meat) to your right hand. Bring it up to your mouth, chew quietly, and swallow when the meat is sufficiently masticated. This is called the American (or Zig-Zag) method of cutting food. The Continental (or European) method consists of not switching hands, and using the left hand for all fork-related activities.

Before we move on, remember the thing we said about not letting the knife touch the table? That's because…

GENERAL TIP #5: You should never let any utensils, once used, EVER touch the table again

This includes leaning a fork onto the plate, or using a knife and putting it back in its original place. The original reason is because the utensil could dirty the tablecloth (a major faux pas) and result in a cleaning bill for the host. So once a utensil is used, it's lifespan is over. Get over it, and leave it on the plate at all times.

One last note should be made about soup. Many people do not know how to correctly use a soup spoon, so we will supply you with…

GENERAL TIP #6: Do not put the entire soup spoon in your mouth

Instead, fill a soup spoon about 75% with soup, bring it up to your mouth, and sip it from the side with as little slurping as possible. When your soup runs low, it's acceptable to tip your bowl away from you so that you can capture the last bits of soup, but don't do that more than twice. And remember to lower your spoon into your soup gently so that it doesn't bang the bottom of the bowl. Imagine 20 people eating soup and banging their bowl bottoms.

http://www.soyouwanna.com/site/syws/...emanners2.html

[Ms.Beau]

sir tolstoi, basi dili siya ang visual learner nga type....if kinesthetic learner siya then he'd appreciate workshops more. but the links are good preliminary readings also. :mrgreen: