Beginning Oct. 1, there’s more reason to find an available table at this restaurant-du-jour What’s new is the Seafood Tower piled high with king crab legs and claws, Boston lobster, chilled Australian oysters, mussels, poached clams, tiger prawns, and more. It’s pretty new in Manila, Gordon Ramsay Bar & Grill, and many have yet to try it because it has been quite a challenge to book an available table, whether for lunch or dinner, since it opened on Aug.
31 on the second floor of the grand wing of Newport World Resorts in Pasay City. The food scene is still abuzz with the news, first announced by Newport World Resorts chair Kevin Tan just weeks before it opened, housed in a 400-square-meter space imbued with a cool Britannia vibe, thanks to its darkwood panels accented with cherry reds and forest greens, and casually elegant or elegantly casual with its Spanish tiles, brick accents, and bespoke Philippine-made furniture. The restaurant, which traces its roots to the chichi Chelsea and Mayfair neighborhood at the heart of London, is a study in approachable luxury, divided into three sections, the main dining hall to the left with its open kitchen, two private rooms that can each seat up to 10 to the right, and in the middle, right at the entrance, is a black polished Spanish-marble centerpiece bar gleaming against navy-blue tiles with gold-accented shelves.
An al fresco area encased in a glasshouse is in the works. Indeed, foodies are still agog about the just-opened din.
