Mesa Soon To Open In SM City Lipa

There's no stopping for more dine options in Lipa as Mesa (Filipino Moderne) restaurant will soon open in SM City Lipa.

Mesa is a prominent Filipino restaurant in Metro Manila and known for its best sellers crispchon, hito flakes, tinapa roll, tofu salad, baby squid in olive oil among others. From its website, Mesa serves a wide variety of items from appetizers to soups, main dishes to grill items, choice meat and seafood complemented with a selection of desserts and coupled with specialty drinks. In contrast to others, substantially all items are prepared daily inside the restaurant’s kitchen facility using high quality and fresh ingredients based on innovative and authentic regional recipes.

Mesa is currently hiring for several positions for its Lipa branch like Managers, Supervisors and Crews for both kitchen and dining. You may send your resume to leonard_lao@yahoo.com with subject "Application to Mesa SM Lipa".

Sendok and Garpu: Indonesian Cuisine In Lipa

Sendok and Garpu or spoon and fork in English is now open in SM City Lipa. If you want to try something different from your usual meal but not far from Filipino delicacies then you have to try Sendok and Garpu.

Sendok and Garpu is serving world's best Indonesian cuisine such as Rendang and Satay. These authentic cuisine from Indonesia is now available in Lipa and another first in Batangas. Their menu is ranging from 60 pesos to 150 pesos only.

We tried Rendang (spicy meat dish cooked slowly for 5 hours), Mie Ayam (noodles with vegetables, mushroom and bits of chicken), Pisang Goreng (banana fritters), and Indomie Goreng (spicy noodles fortified with vitamins). Surprisingly all meals served satisfied our bellies with full of intense flavour. They also serve coffee for 80 pesos where you have to choose fresh beans from different places like Sagada and Lipa then they will grind it for you to drip brew.

Kenny Rogers Roasters Is Back In Lipa

Kenny Rogers is finally back in Lipa. After 8 years, they are back in their newest branch in Lipa City located along the bustling Ayala Highway beside Lipa Medix.

What makes Kenny Rogers Roasters different from the usual food chains is their healthy meal options. They offer high fiber, high protein, and low calorie meals. Other than their best selling and famous roasted chicken, there's a variety of menu to choose from which includes salads, home made muffins, pastas, sandwiches among others.

photo: Kenny Rogers Roaster Philippines

Lipa Dropped To #19 In Ph Competitiveness Index

Lipa City dropped to #19 spot in the 2016 Competitiveness Index by National Competitive Council of the Philippines out of 110 component and independent cities from #13 last year while Naga City remained unbeatable at #1 spot. Overall (including Highly Urbanized Cities), Quezon City was reigned supreme as they claimed the Most Competitive City award this year overtaking Manila who was ahead last year while Davao and Cebu take 5th and 6th spots respectively.

The Competitiveness Index is being measured based on the sum of scores from 3 pillars such as Economic Dynamism, Government Efficiency and Infrastructure. Among 3 pillars, Lipa City is once again lowest at Government Efficiency where it ranked only at #63 but soaring high at #7 in Economic Dynamism among Component Cities. In CALABARZON region, Bacoor was #1 while Batangas City was at #5 spot and Lipa City at #8. Please note that Highly Urbanized Cities like Lucena and Cavite City have their own ranking while overall ranking among Highly Urbanized and Component Cities are not yet available in the website.

Developments in Lipa City:
New international and local shops opened in Lipa City recently like Krispy Kreme, Kenny Rogers, Cabalen, Kuya J's, Dominos Pizza, Power Mac, Adidas among others.
SM Lipa is currently having major renovation on its department store as it already surpassed premier status in terms of sales while Robinsons Lipa did also a major facelift on its supermarket.
Additional major player in BPO industry has been added as well in Lipa which locked the city as among the top ten next wave cities in the Philippines.
Local entrepreneurs lined up in the newest food stop in the city via Metro Event Zone while few more additional commercial buildings are currently under construction which will give more options to shoppers, foodies and tourists including the first premium condominium and hotel building in the province.

With these exciting developments in Lipa, netizens are hopeful to see improvements and consistencies in ordinances, traffic, garbage collection, and security.

source: National Competitiveness Council of the Philippines website