Millie's Cookies

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Definitely one of my favorite cookies in London. After the whole day One Filipino event, I met up for brunch with a good friend of mine from High school who was in town for the event. We went at Westfield and ended up at Millie's cookies.

I like them because they're soft and sweet, just how I like them. I'm used to eating Millie's cookies because someone always brings them to meetings at the embassy. Since I was trying not to eat too much chocolate, I tried the Oatmeal & Raisin and Raspberry & White cookies. If I had to choose chocolate, I would pick White Chocolate and Milk Chocolate cookies.

To top off my sweet tooth craving, I ordered a Vanilla Milkshake. Yum!

Millie's cookies at Westfield London, White City, also has a nice sit down area, to enjoy all of Millie's cookies goodness!

Genie's Restaurant (restaurant)

Mostly the food served here is Thai. But we get served something off the menu. Chicken barbeque is one of my favorites they serve for us. They also served pansit (noodles) and fried rice. Always good and filling. Sarap! I remember celebrating my mom's birthday here in 2010 I think. It was a tuesday so it was just us and a few good close friends. Good times....

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The spiral staircase is really a nice touch to this restaurant. There is a big enough space in between steps so as to be careful when going up and down. The upstairs can be reserved for special occasions, like we once did for a Kapihan. One sunday, there was a dialogue among Filipino community leaders in regards to migration and Filipino diaspora. We were served coffee and porridge, or Arroz Caldo as we Filipinos like it.

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It's a really cozy place where a lot of locals go to. Neighbours come here to catch up for dinner and a glass of wine. There's also a piano here, not sure if you can recognise it from the picture. But if I remember correctly, there's a jazz pianist on the evenings of Friday's and Saturday's, which locals sing along to and dance along to as well. 

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As you can see, the bar is full of different kinds of drinks. So you can find definitely something to suit your taste. 

For a Filipino-owned restaurant in London, this is definitely one that I enjoy going back to. Though they don't serve Filipino food, the  ambiance and food are still worth a visit.

Genie's Restaurant,

6 Portland Road,

Holland Park,
London,W11 4LA

Restaurant blues

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Aside from wanting to eat where food is great, another thing to consider is the ambiance of the restaurant. Just like this Thai restaurant in Imperial Wharf, where the place seems so fancy and the waiting staff were just so accommodating. I enjoy that about restaurants, plus we spend more time talking than actually eating sometimes. Lol.

Here in the Philippines, you'll find a lot of good restaurants here with a nice ambiance. I'm just gonna take it one restaurant at a time.

Chinatown, London

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Chinese New Year in Chinatown, 2012. I definitely spent a lot of dinners here. Not because I'm chinese, but because it was close enough to the Philippine Embassy and most of my Filipino friends craved for rice and cheap dinner, thus here we were!

I remember Crispy Duck, Wong Kei, Hung's, Kung's, Yung's, Cafe C & R, Golden Pagoda, Golden Jade, Mr Wu, Loong Fung Restaurant, Leong's Legends I & II, Harbor City.

There were also Japanese restaurants (Misato), Korean, Vietnamese (the Vietnamese restaurant) and obviously the Oriental 'fusion' restaurants.

The stand outs were the pubs, Costa, Pizza Express and the other Italian restaurant, which I never went in to eat.

Definitely a lot of good moments here, and I'd definitely be back for dinner one day.