For Valentine’s season, City of Dreams Manila highlights a number of appealing and romantic offerings that are guaranteed to impress your date.
Thinking of how to surprise your loved one this Valentine’s Day? City of Dreams Manila’s romantic dining options and sweet presents will surely help you and your special someone stay in love, not just in the season of love, but hopefully beyond it, as the luxury hotel’s signature restaurants, Crystal Dragon, Nobu Manila and Haliya, set the mood for romance, while sweet gifts from Café Society express affection.
Crystal Dragon
Couples are bound to feel special with the curated five-course Valentine’s set menu of premium Cantonese cuisine and regional Chinese specialties at the Crystal Dragon. Available for lunch and dinner until February 15 for P4,000 per person, the menu for a couple consists of oven-baked Swan Pastry filled with chicken and truffle pasta and deep-fried stuffed cheesy prawn ball with fragrant coconut roasted eel in crispy bean curd skin for appetizers.
Then for the remainder of the meal, savor braised hot and sour crab meat broth with Japanese scallop and shrimp wonton, wok-fried beef tenderloin with Sichuan pepper and king mushroom with sauteed mixed vegetables and crispy egg noodles with seared king prawn. Cap off the hearty dessert with scrumptious mangaro dark chocolate dome with ginger crème brulée.
To make the romantic meal even livelier, the menu comes with a complimentary glass of France Chateau d’Esclans Rosé.
Nobu Manila
In this season of love, Nobu Manila’s five-course tasting menu for two is exclusively available on Valentine’s Day dinner at P11,000. The gastronomic fete commences with a chef’s selection of zensai (appetizer), followed by the first course of Nobu Canape selection of oyster with Nobu salsa, oyster with yuzu granita, yellowtail with jalapeño and spicy tuna with crispy rice Malibu-style. It continues with Nobu seasonal assorted sushi of toro (tuna), uni (sea urchin), and ama ebi (shrimp); seared scallop with sobagaki (cooked soba dough) and truffle oil; trio of wagyu beef – Nobu-style taco, wagyu skewer with kabotcha (squash), and crispy gyoza. For a sweet conclusion, blueberry monkfruit panna cotta will be served.
The menu includes a complimentary welcome sake cocktail as an added treat.
Haliya
The modern Filipino restaurant entices friends and lovers with its “Araw ng mga Puso” special five-course dinner menu, which is available for P9,000 for two on Valentine’s Day only. The menu consists of The Sugpo (poached annatto tiger prawn, coconut tuille, avocado crema, pickled radish, compressed celery, lemongrass and ginger emulsion, and edible flowers), Cured Salmon Ensalada (pako or fern salad, crispy kataifi, semi-dried cherry tomato, Mandarin baby red radish, beet fluid gel, and calamansi-dill cream), Bell Pepper and Tomato Krema (roasted bell pepper-tomato soup with parmesan heart tuille, crispy smoked pork bacon bits, micro basil, and thyme oil), Beef Estofado (sous vide carbon neutral Royal Ranch Beef Tenderloin, oven-baked stuffed baby eggplant, pork longganisa salsa, sweet potato puree and estofado jus) and Tsokolate Liyag (Haliya’s Valentine chocolate cake, salted caramel and kesong puti or white cheese).
Haliya elevates the dinner date night with a complimentary cocktail for couples, who can each choose one drink from the following: Giliw (vodka, espresso shot, ube liqueur and milk caramel with white meringue and whipped cream); Sinta (rum pineapple juice, orange juice and strawberry puree, garnished with fresh strawberry and orange peel); and Liyag (rum, red wine, white wine, orange juice and soda, garnished with grapes and lime peel).
Café Society
Café Society’s sophisticated array of handcrafted Valentine’s chocolates, pastries and cakes offered until February 14 are guaranteed to sweeten anyone’s the day.
Among the tempting treats are the creatively luscious Valentine’s pink rose and cranberry chocolate box, granola gianduja love dome, love bear raspberry crunch. The cafe also offers a range of cakes, including Raspberry Lemon Loaf Cake, Spiced Coffee Caramel Passionfruit Cake and Trio Chocolate Mousse Crispy Feuilletine Cake.
For inquiries and reservations call 8800-8080 or e-mail guestservices@cod-manila.com. For more information, visit www.cityofdreamsmanila.com. Explore more of City of Dreams Manila’s promotional offers, and rewards, or instantly check Melco Club points with the new Melco Club App, available for free download on iOS and Android.
