Earth Kitchen, a New Healthy Dining Place in Q.C.

                    Driving along White Plains, Katipunan Ave. on a thursday night. We saw this unique façade of a restaurant, nothing fancy, the place is covered with lots of green leaves and a huge square of wood in the middle, which I thought was a gate, but it was actually their main door. It was already late then, so we decided to return on a Sunday, for lunch instead. We arrived at around 1pm. The restaurant was almost full; glad they still have available seats for us. The place is cozy; wooden tables and chairs, very simple design on the walls and windows, with hanging plants from the ceiling. It was a relaxing and comfy garden-like ambiance. The restaurant is a joint project of Got Heart Foundation and Hizon’s Catering.

                  We ordered “Calamari” for starter; unlike the normal crunchy golden brown rings that we love, it was color white and soft in texture,. Furthermore, my husband said the dip doesn’t complement the appetizer. And yes, that purple flower is edible, taste just like any other green salad leaf.

  

                           The salad nonetheless, was amazingly delicious! It was the “Beef and Citrus Salad” – boneless beef ribs, raw papaya, cilantro, herbs and greens with muscovado vinaigrette. The dressing goes very well with the generous serving of crispy salad veggies; which was also seasoned perfectly, and then topped with some soft and tasteful beef slices. We love the sweet and tangy flavor of their muscovado vinaigrette, just like Asian dressing. But I hope they’ll be able to offer variety of dressings in the future.

                   There was only one main course available at that time, which was also beef. Just the same with our previously selected item, so we ordered pasta instead. “4 Mushrooms and Egg,” their version of Carbonara with an organic egg. I just wish it has bacon, as it was described on the menu, cause I didn’t find any.

                   Our 4-year old son didn’t eat that much, so we got some ice cream for him. Since cookies and cream flavor is his all-time favorite I ordered for “Tablea flavor with cookie crumble” too bad I didn’t read the description, it was served with choco chip cookies not the oreo one. This made him more dissatisfied, my bad! The ice cream was made from Carabao’s milk and Tablea. On a lighter note, we also tried the “Goat’s Cheese,” frozen cheesecake ice cream; it has honey, dried figs and cashew nuts.  It was so creamy and yummy. Two thumbs up for me!

                    I really enjoyed Earth Kitchen’s high quality salad and we’ll probably come back to try their main course. Nevertheless, we are not bringing the children next time, because this place don’t serve kid’s food, like spaghetti, mashed potato, chicken strips, not even a toast of bread. And they don’t have high chairs.

              Good thing there was a group of people at the backyard, trying to set-up a kid’s birthday event. And our son had been busy taking photos of the party stuff. He just ate elsewhere afterwards.