COFFEE is as much a staple in some Filipino homes as rice. However, the minute a Pinoy steps out of the house, there’s hardly any way to get the taste of home — instead we’re inundated with every other cosmopolitan caffeine fix out there. KapeTayo Coffee then, gets the way a Filipino mom likes her coffee, and offers it to the rest of the country.

ON March 17, 2018, the annual Festival de la Paella Gigante brought together chefs from many of the metro’sa hotels, restaurants, and culinary academies to pool their skills in creating, as the event’s title clearly stated, a giant paella. It was a night of smoke and music, dance and wine, and, of course, good paella.

QUICK: when you hear a wine is Cabernet, do you automatically think cabernet sauvignon? Of course you do. It’s the world’s most widely planted red grape, noted for big, rich, power-packed wines you can swoon over and even invest in.

RESTAURANT rating guide Michelin said on Tuesday that it will launch a publication for California in early June, expanding its current coverage for eateries in San Francisco and the surrounding wine-producing regions of Napa and Sonoma.

WHEN preparing a pork dish, it’s important to choose the right cut of meat to go with it, but with so many different cuts available, it’s easy to get overwhelmed. Robina Farms Premium Fresh Meat has come up with a guide on which cut is best for what kind of dish, plus a few suggestions on how to get creative.

THE producers of the national tour of M. Butterfly have announced that they are cutting the tour short, with the final performances to be in Cebu from March 14-17.

Marriott Café now offers a hearty buffet spread on Sundays which is a meat overload feast, with unlimited slabs of steak, ribs, and seafood for P2,800 nett from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. For reservations call 988-9999.

“PHILIPPINE art history is never static. It remains in constant flux,” remarked Salcedo Auctions director Richie Lerma, speaking about the emergence of three works by classic Filipino artists.

FOR its fifth year, the biennial Manila Improv Festival will feature 58 improv acts from all over the world, performing from March 27 to March 31 at the Philippine Educational Theater Association (PETA) Theater Center in Quezon City.

THE Philippines’ first full-length opera, National Artists Guillermo Tolentino and Felipe Padilla De Leon’s 1957 opera, Noli Me Tangere (Huwag Mo Salangin/Touch Me Not) returns to the Cultural Center of the Philippines’ (CCP) Main Theater from March 8 to 10.

STEVEN SPIELBERG is taking on Netflix, Inc.

WITH KIDS’ TV in a ratings slump, Nickelodeon is looking to increase its presence on the stage.