Tagaytay: Postcard Pretty

By the Staff

A little off the highway but still worth the short drive is the Spanish restaurant Carlos ([63917] 951-4393). Its bright comedor or dining room, which can sit around 50 people, is furnished with big round tables, Texas longhorns, and a small collection of knives and flintlock pistols hanging on the walls. Must-tries include the creamy Prawns and Steak Thermidor (prawns with garlic steak, tomato salad, and pesto pasta) and the delicious Relleno de Pollo (stuffed chicken with chorizo, paprika and herbs). Their mango cheesecake is so good we took one home. A set menu starts from 450 pesos. Carlos also has clean rooms with antique beds for rent--one even has a turn-of-the-century four-poster-bed, a collector's item, made by a Chinese artisan named Atay.

Source: Mabuhay Magazine, April 2004, page 55.