Bread Basket PH — Restaurant in 2nd District

I ordered a soy milk cappuccino which was the best cappuccino I have had here in the Philippines so far (in a country that seems to struggle to understand how to serve a good cup of coffee), as good as the best cappuccino I've enjoyed in the USA, in fact. But I give this place only 3 stars when it could have been 5 stars due to the quality of food we ordered.... We ordered the pizza (vegetable) quiche and it seems like the most plainest and least amount of vegetables- a thin layer of tomatoes on the bottom of the pie) was chosen in lieu of the heavily loaded pieces shown available. Very plain tasting and uninteresting. So we ordered bagels to go - and 1st the server picked the incorrect (and cheaper) type than we had paid for, and when I corrected on the type, she chose again the least desirable looking bagels of the bunch. A friend recommended this place for us and we went out of our way to try it out. Perhaps the servers dislikes foreigners...not sure if I would bother going back...

A bread store with a nice, artsy, charming interior. Quite similar in style to new coffee shops in the same Daang Hari area. It has an open dining area right beside the mall's fountain where the sound of the cascading water is within hearing/reach. The pastas are flavorful, filling and appealing to both meat eaters and flexitarians. The seafood pasta I tried was saucy, well spiced though a bit too salty. My serving had more mussel shells than the mussel meat itself which I tried to find but couldn't in the pasta. Maybe they landed on someone else's plate😅. Overall, good selection of breakfast and merienda dishes....

Ambiance. 10/10. Food, 6/10, ordered the Shitake & Truffle appetizer, the mushroom and dip was good itself but the bread, let's just say if someone throws a stone at you, and you throw the bread back, you can call it even. Cleanliness and hygiene 4/10, staff was mopping then got called to serve the food at the counter, she did not put the mop down or let someone else get the food. And the downside of having so much decor and stuffy areas is they will house insects, and we encountered the worst kind, mosquitoes, under our table. Good for pics. Has room for...