{"id":85143,"date":"2017-01-15T16:16:27","date_gmt":"2017-01-15T21:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=85143"},"modified":"2017-01-15T16:16:27","modified_gmt":"2017-01-15T21:16:27","slug":"canadian-food-critic-hails-filipino-resto-one-of-ottawas-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/01\/15\/canadian-food-critic-hails-filipino-resto-one-of-ottawas-best\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian food critic hails Filipino resto one of Ottawa\u2019s best"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_85144\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-85144\" style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Tamis-Cafes-tapsilog_-Marinated-hand-cut-beef-sirloin-served-with-a-choice-of-garlic-or-mexican-rice-and-sunny-side-egg..jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85144\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Tamis-Cafes-tapsilog_-Marinated-hand-cut-beef-sirloin-served-with-a-choice-of-garlic-or-mexican-rice-and-sunny-side-egg..jpg\" alt=\"Tamis Cafe's tapsilog: Marinated, hand cut beef sirloin served with a choice of garlic or mexican rice and sunny side egg. (Photo: Tamis Cafe\/Facebook)\" width=\"720\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Tamis-Cafes-tapsilog_-Marinated-hand-cut-beef-sirloin-served-with-a-choice-of-garlic-or-mexican-rice-and-sunny-side-egg..jpg 720w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Tamis-Cafes-tapsilog_-Marinated-hand-cut-beef-sirloin-served-with-a-choice-of-garlic-or-mexican-rice-and-sunny-side-egg.-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-85144\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tamis Cafe&#8217;s tapsilog: Marinated, hand cut beef sirloin served with a choice of garlic or mexican rice and sunny side egg. (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/tamisottawa\" target=\"_blank\">Tamis Cafe\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA\u2014A cozy Filipino-themed caf\u00e9 and restaurant situated in the historic and elite Glebe neighborhood of Ottawa has been selected as one of the best restaurants in Ottawa.<\/p>\n<p>Tamis Caf\u00e9 is a family business run by Lito and Liza Sare, with their daughters Jessica and Jiselle,<\/p>\n<p>Noted food critic Peter Hum featured Tamis Caf\u00e9 in the Ottawa Citizen newspaper in his year-end review of Ottawa\u2019s dining scene.<\/p>\n<p>Hum said Tamis Caf\u00e9 is among the \u201cmore humble [sic] but worthy mom-and-pop joints,\u201d which joins the ranks of ambitious and distinctive restaurants that set themselves apart from other dining establishments in Ottawa.<\/p>\n<p>The caf\u00e9 was featured by the Citizen in the summer of 2016 where Hum noted how \u201cTamis Caf\u00e9 brings (the) sweet, savoury tastes of Manila to the Glebe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the time, he noted the \u201csimple, home-style savoury dishes that have been consistently well-made, tasty, generously portioned and bargain-priced.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The author found the vegan chocolate p\u00e2t\u00e9 at Tamis Caf\u00e9 very likeable, and confessed that it is a dish that he craves for.<\/p>\n<p>Tamis Caf\u00e9 also mixes its own unique blend of organic tea and coffee. Among their popular beverages is ube (purple yam) latte. They also bake their own pastries and cakes\u2013 including pandan (screwpine), ube desserts, leche flan (cr\u00e8me caramel) and the venerable pandesal bun. For the winter season, the caf\u00e9 has recently begun to offer bulalo (beef soup) and lomi (thick noodle) soup.<\/p>\n<p>Their unique take on Filipino food staples such as the classic and ube brazo de Mercedes (dessert roll), okoy (shrimp fritters), kare-kare (peanut and ox stew) and bistek (beef steak) have been featured in various diplomatic and government functions and receptions of the Philippine Embassy and the Canadian Parliament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u2014A cozy Filipino-themed caf\u00e9 and restaurant situated in the historic and elite Glebe neighborhood of Ottawa has been selected as &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":85144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-food","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}