The Cordillera is a mountainous region filled with fresh vegetation and wild animals. These precious resources are the main ingredients for a very special and well-created meal for the Café. Let your imaginations come out from your mind because this is the place where it all began! It is the Café by the ruins. The human ingenuity of the people of the Cordillera has sculpted this magnificent cafe into a work of art. How? Mainly because it’s not just your ordinary restaurant that has a wall made of concrete and a solid roof. No, these masters have come up of a way to make the ordinary, extraordinary. I would think of ways on how to describe the Café but I’d rather not, It would rather be better if I show you some images that would make your imaginations feel tingly inside…
In the Café, you would really feel that it really isn’t an ordinary place to eat, it’s really like you’re in the Ruins of the Cordilleras eating its native delicacies. That is what the Café would want you to feel because in this ever changing world, you would see structures that are really constructed in its peak form, made with the exact of exacts and the best of the best. Yes, engineer-wise, it is the best of the best but this little café can attract more attention than these structures primarily because it is created by the Natives' own hands, blood, sweat and time. It might not be the best of the best but it is made with the people’s hearts, it is something that you would not see in any structure that was built with a help of a machine. You would really see the creative efforts that the people have given to this Café. The structural materials used in the place are all from the environment. Walls are made of Philippine bamboo called the kawayan and the roof is partly made of Nipa or anahaw leaves which are also used to create the very well-known Nipa hut. The flooring is made of stones and also the Café’s borders. The lighting system is not primarily needed because the sun’s natural light can easily light up the Café but when it’s night, they would open up some lanterns that are hand-crafted by the natives and also light up some candles, if you would go to this restaurant, you would feel that nothing else matters other than the ambiance of the Café and the meal that you are delicately eating.
Now for the food, there are so many mouth-watering meals that the Café has to offer but I would like to generalize its menu. They serve freshly baked breads like basil and kamote bread. They serve it with their home-made dips like the fish roe pate and the native strawberry jams and butter of Benguet. The very popular cheese salad is made of fresh carabao's cheese. Oh yeah, and for your information, all that the Café is creating are home- made, there are no artificial ingredients and the ingredients they use are all native, which makes it more flavorful, and all these are fresh. That’s for the appetizers, now for the main menu, their rice is from the Mountains of Benguet, their slow cooked foods are really cooked with the utmost care, the native chicken with its fresh herbs and spices, the fish will taste like it just came from the sea with its mild salty flavor and the smoky aroma of the charcoal, they use wild mushrooms and fresh chilies to add flavor to their meals. The broth of their soup is made of the meat and bones of the native chicken. The pasta sauce like the Carbonara is made of fresh carabao’s milk, the very special Ruin’s pasta is made of fresh fish roe, the Pesto are made of freshly chopped basils and the tomato sauce are really fresh from the juice of the tomato. For the deserts, they only use the freshest of the freshest of ingredients, fresh carabao’s milk, and fresh fruits in season, harvested wild honey, muscovado sugar and so much more. The drinks are really Cordilleran, I can promise you that, the coffee has that special aroma of the Cordillera that I really cannot explain, and their iced tea is boiled from the leaves of the Natives' harvest, served with wild honey with a pandan leaf and to top it all of, the top of the glass is drizzled with a sweet and partly sour sugar that makes it a very Innovative drink. It is really an experience that you would never forget and it is a restaurant that you would always compare it with. This is just a brief overview of the Café and I hope that you viewers enjoyed this mouth-watering blog that would leave you wanting to crave for the meals and ambiance of Café by the Ruins!Sources of the Pictures:
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