Chuckie's Pizza

A former colleague when I was teaching announced that he was opening a pizza place. I told my nephew who was into food. He said he was wary about small pizza joints because they tended to not so satisfactory. He grew up liking Sjhakey's pizzas and that was his barometer.. He said he could do better than most of those local pizzas. Actually, for some of those pizzas, I would agree with him.

 Anyways, he finally agreed to pick up a sample. It would be a good excuse to bring out his bike. He decided to go for the Napoletana and the Bacon flavoured pizzas. He mentioned other flavours like the 3 Cheese (which his cousin might like because this one loved cheese) and a Shrimp Wasabe.

Okay so we got a pitcher of tea and sat down to eat. The comments.

"This better than [those other pizzas]"
"Cheese is good"
"Crust is chewy"

And some other nice things were said about the flavour. But we had one major complaint.

"How come he did not have a box for take out?"

Oh yes, Chuckie, considering you have a small space, expect to hand out a lot of take outs. Get those boxes printed!

 

Chuckie's Pizza can be found at The Square Magiting, 51 Magiting Street, UP Village, Diliman, Quezon City. 

Luk for Foo(d)

I went to a dinner meeting last night, actually an overdue meeting but we couldn't schedule it during the Holy Week.

Anyway, we had been talking about it but there had been no venue for weeks.  Finally, yesterday morning, our coordinator Raymond announced that we would have at this place called Luk Foo at the Puregold building in Cubao.  That was convenient for me so I volunteered to be the advance party.

When I got there before 5pm, the place was almost empty.  It turns out they were quite new, just over a month old.  Besides it was too early for dinner and too late for snacks.  So I told the girl Amy that I was reserving for a party of 12 and that we would be arriving at 6:30.  She pointed out an area near the back.

She also asked if I was ordering and she showed me their menu sets for 10.  She insisted that the meal was big enough for 12.  Well, I could not order because I wasn't in charge of that.  Still, it was too early so I went off and did my own thing.

Amy prevailed.  When the others arrived, we chose one of the sets.  It turns out we had a small doggie bag when we left.

The food was great.  There was just too much of it for our group.  And yes, all 12 of us had full stomachs when we left.