I went to this intimate food fest with our fellow foodie bloggers and
marketing people from Seafood Island and Marciano’s few weeks ago and its about
their official opening of both resto in SM Southmall. We know already that they
opened up few months ago and I didn’t know that from those months they are still
on their soft opening stage, I guess they already perfected the food and service
that’s why they decided to have a simultaneous launch in the same day. I travel
to SM Southmall coming from my home here in Cavite, and I didn’t expected that
the traffic here in Cavite is much worse than the traffic in Las Pinas, instead
of having a 45 minute travel time, I experience a 1 1/2 travel time coming from
Cavite.
But all the traffic pain was gone when this food from Seafood
Island greeted me, it’s a Tali beach boodle meal from Seafood Island and it’s
one of the most favorite boodle food ordered by diners.
Here’s
the Tali beach boodle food from Seafood Island, I just grabbed this photo from
their Facebook page, it’s the complete food meal with lots of sea food and
meat.
But
I arrive 2 hours late that day and here’s the Tali beach that greeted me..
ahhahaha
it says “ you are late!! the foodies ate here first” lol
But
that’s okay, when I logged in to their table, all I can hear is a foodie field
report from Fitz, Don and Iris and also from Ms. Xchosa (marketing girl of the
resto) that they devour the Tali beach inch by inch and they even used their
hands and no spoon and fork in eating, so I was there looks like a kawawang
puppy waiting for the next foodie meal hahaha.
Blackbeard’s
Seafood Island in SM Southmall
I’m
glad that Ms. Xchosa prepared something from me, it’s the same Tali beach, minus
the boodle set up, I ate it with my own style, but it was meter by meter
hahahahah.
There’s
the tilapia fish, grilled eggplant, mussels, squid, shrimps.
and
some more…
The most favorite food here is the squid, I like the why it
was grilled and the softness of the squid is perfect, I just don’t like too
munch biting and munching whenever I eat squid, but its just perfect and I want
to eat more of their grilled squid. The grilled eggplant is the most hated food
for me, but the Seafood Island version makes it more yummy when I dipped it to a
special bagoong sauce and that sauce coming from another food with veggies, I
forgot on what it is called. I ate the eggplant last after all seafood are gone
in my plate hahahah.
Seafood Island specializes sea food in big platter
serving, for a price of around P1,299 good for 5-6 person, or a price of P965
for a group of 3-4 person. That’s the pricing range of the food there at Seafood
Island. Also I tried the Boracay Feast and Dapitan’s Pride boodle meal and it’s
the best too! Both meals are around a price range of P700 good for 3-4 persons.
So if you want to organize yourself a one good food fest with your
family and friends, try it here in Seafood Island
Here’s
the foodie bloggerss - ME, Iris Pulga, Fitz Villafuerte and Don
Trivino
After
Seafood Island, we went to its neighbor restaurant, our next foodie adventure
awaits here in Marciano’s Pizza Pasta and Steak restaurant, its just located on
the opposite side of the wall of Seafood Island, they are both operated under
one food group of company.
The dining area is a little small,but its quite okay for 4-5
person per table, there are lots of tables at the al fresco dining area and its
one of the perfect dining venue at night and since they have musicians playing
outside at night and sometimes they have a cartoon artist that you can hire to
draw you a portrait on the spot. It’s a nice resto that gives a little taste on
what you can experience in Italy.
That day we encounter this eat all you can pizza for only
P399. I’m not sure if it’s a special offer for Thanksgiving day, but I hope that
they can offer this in a seasonal basis, like for example they can have a 2013
new year eat all you can pizza. I want to try it because I love the taste of
their brick oven thin crust pizza and also their creamy pasta.
The resto has a wine bar and you can order a red wine or
sparkling wine to your pasta, pizza or steak. I haven’t tried their steak yet,
but I included that already in my must try food here in SM Southmall. I’ll visit
them next time.
I’m
ready to eat!
Here’s
a photo with Chef Giorgio Buciarelli, the Italian chef and food consultant for
the Red Crab group of resto company
Iris Pulga and husband / spotted also the owners of
Marciano’s resto
The
awesome encounter here is with the Italian Chef Giorgio Buciarelli, he told us
that he worked before in some restos that we know and I can say that the pizza
style he created looks like from the other resto, but the difference here is
that the pizza here in Marciano’s are much delicious. He told me that pizzas
here in Manila are not 100 percent original, he also mentioned that our style
here can’t match the pizza style in Italy, when he started to teach on how to
make pizza in some resto, he is surprised that some of the cook and chef didn’t
know how to make pizza, so he started to be a consultant to other restos and now
he is a mainstain here at Marciano’s, he lives here in our country for almost 18
years and the only joke that he got me was…. “I’m Giorgio….if there’s Giorgio
Armani…then I am Giorgio no money!” hahahahh
Chef
Giorgio Buciarelli treated us with a nice Adam Sandler Four Cheese pizza, it’s
the heaviest pizza for me, it falls in my tummy so quickly and we surrender
after one bite, I ate the rest of the 2 pcs of pizza, so yummy and I didn’t top
it with catsup or hot sauce, the cheese it the flavor and it’s the life of the
pizza. Thanks Chef!
The launching of the resto is celebrated with lots of guests,
celebrities, media and bloggers, they have a live singing act at the al fresco
dining, performing bossa nova tunes.
Its
great that their pizza making area is located at the back of the resto, there’s
no special wall or glass divider, you can watch your pizza here created on the
spot for you. Kids will love to watch their pizza being prepared and it will
serve as an educational activity for them to see on how pizza are
created.
Here’s
the pizza maker adding tomato sauce on the pizza dough
shape
like a Pac-man character hahahah
I’m
not sure why he didn’t added more tomato sauce, then he placed lots of cheese on
that corner and spread it all over like magic.
I
salivated when I saw this..so I turn away and get a better view of the
pizza
freshly
hand pick and prepared by the pizza master
Then
the pizza was cooked inside a brick oven that was customized by Chef Giorgio
Here’s
the Four Cheese pizza! yummy!!! (obviously it’s a different photo from the one
was prepared in the photo earlier ) this is our pizza that Chef Giorgio treated
us.
Congrats to Seafood Island and Marciano’s!
You may visit
them at SM Southmall, Food Street area.
Visit their Facebook channels
:
http://www.facebook.com/marcianosph
http://www.facebook.com/Blackbeards.Seafood.Island