Beers vs. Cupcakes

Guess which won?

Went out with the girls last night…first time in years since we had our girls' night out.  We got together around 10PM and headed over to Beers Paradise.  It's a haven for beer lovers and they boast of having 100 imported beers (draft beers, fruit beers, amber beers, pale pilsens and their famous Monk Trappist beers) not normally found in our local stores.  What was ironic was despite all those beer listings, our initial choices were all "unavailable".  So my friends settled for Cassis (blackcurrant beer), grisette (apple beer), some sort of cherry beer and a Trappist bestseller…Chimay Rogue.  I had a Stella Artois…same beer B bought in the US.

 Beers Paradise along Polaris St., Bel-Air Village, Makati City (next to Alba's Restaurant).

 entrance of Beers Paradise.

 bar of Beers Paradise.

  their menu.

   our beers.

 their spaghetti.  Unfortunately since their chicken fingers was so sparse…we devoured them in 2 minutes.

Surprisingly the place was near empty.  When we arrived, there were 3 groups in the non-smoking area and the smoking area had a group of high school looking kids.  After 10 minutes there, while we were ordering…everyone else left except for the couple seated on the next couch.  And it stayed that way during our entire stay.  The beers were expensive to say the least but then we were there for the experience.  The spaghetti was delicious…surprising for a beer place.  Their chicken fingers on the other hand was laughably poor…poor in the sense that there were only 4 pieces of really thin chicken fingers and a handful of fries.  Each beer cost us roughly the same as per order of food somewhere around 200 bucks or so.  Our bill totaled to around Php1,400.  Since we were paying that much, my friend opted to take home all the bottles of beers we consumed and the bartender was nice enough to throw in a couple other bottles into the bag.  As souvenirs, we also took a couple of the coasters that were generously displayed on the tables (additions to my growing collection).

Like I said, we were after the experience and I must say after this, you won't see us back at Beers Paradise.  It's too much of a "happening" place (pardon the pun hehehe).

So to satisfy our craving for something to do, we headed over to Serendra and had Cupcakes by Sonja.  As I am not a cupcake person, this was again a purely "for experience" time for me.  I ordered the Red Velvet Vixen cupcake (Php65) for me and took home a Chocolate Surprise (Php 62) for B.  My cupcake was surprisingly so-so;  the icing topped on the cupcake was the saving grace…it was Belgian cream cheese and that I'm a fan of.  The cupcake itself was a bit dry and hard.  I had a bit of a taste of the Chocolate Surprise and it was too sweet for me.  I like their packaging though (I think I'm paying more for it than the cupcake itself).  This is one trend I'm not following for sure.

So back to the question…who won?  Beers Paradise and Cupcakes by Sonja, who else???  After all with all the hype about them, we ended up spending a chunk of money just to test them out.