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Tue 20 September 2016 Adobo is a go-go Photo:Lasa We first got a hankering for Filipino cuisine with the opening of 2nd City, a ‘Filipino taqueria’ in New York’s West Village. It’s a fast-casual eatery specialising in Filipino flavours in Mexican form. There’s everything from Adobo-rito, a soy-braised chicken burrito, to tamarind ‘slurry’ (starch) ‘bi-curious tacos’. On the refreshments side, it’s all about the calamansi (Filipino citrus fruit) margaritas. But it’s in LA that Filipino food has really hit the trendscape, with a handful of second generation Filipinos doing their take on their home-grown cuisine. Standouts include Eggslut’s Alvin Cailan, who, earlier this year, set up Amboy (Tagalog slang for American born Filipino), a straightforward takeaway window serving no-fuss grilled meats, adobo vegetables and steamed rice atop a banana leaf. Now, he’s partnered with Filipino-American brothers, Chef Chad Valencia and Chase Valencia in their new venture, LASA, which champions modern Filipino food via a seasonal, four-course prix fixe menu. For something simpler, try Ricebar, by Charles Olalia (of fine dining Patana), serving a range of traditional rice bowls made from heirloom grains imported from the Philippines. Now London has gotten a taste of the Southeast Asian cuisine, too, first with pop up Luzon and their Brit take on Filipino cuisine – Longganisa (pork sausage) scotch eggs and inasal wings (chicken wings marinated in lemongrass and calamanasi) — and now at Hawksmoor. Until October 13, head to the steak house for ‘The Filipino Burger’: a grilled pork patty topped with their take on traditional pork adobo, buffalo mozzarella and banana ketchup. BY CS Calendar Picks This Week’s Picks EAT DRINK DO SEE In-N-Out Burger in London. At Estancia Brasil Steak House. September 21. 11am-3pm. 117 Finchley Road, NW3 6HY. The Line up at Town Hall Hotel: Australian Edition. Sept 21. Patriot Square, E2 9NF. £130pp L’Eden. The world’s first bio-responsive garden by Bompas & Parr and Perrier-Jouët. September 15-September 25. 147 Wardour Street, W1F 8WD John Wesley at Waddington Custot Galleries. Sept 16-Oct 22. 11 Cork Street, W1S 3LT LIKE SHARE FORWARD PREVIOUS EDITION (c) 2016 Urban Junkies. All rights reserved. Reproductions of any portion of this website only with our express permission. Urban Junkies is a free weekly mailer. All listings and features are editorial: We do not receive any payment from venues, artists or promoters. Every effort has been made to ensure accuracy of information listed but we cannot accept responsibility for errors or omissions.

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