SM City Lipa Opens Christmas Attraction for 2018

SM City Lipa opens this year's Christmas attraction entitled "Greatest Season on Earth" with carnival like production number before unveiling their festive decoration of stage. 

Throughout the months of November and December, there will be a lot of Christmas related activities including their extravagant Christmas Grand Parade on Nov 24 and Dec 28.

More Dine Out Options at SM City Lipa

Pepper Lunch
(located at the second floor of the main mall, beside Foodcourt)

Pepper Lunch is a “fast-steak” restaurant concept which originated in Japan in 1994. It was created by Japanese chef and inventor, Mr. Kunio Ichinose who wanted to serve quality, fast food without the need to train a chef for years. At Pepper Lunch, diners get to cook their own food over a patented electromagnetic plate that is heated up to 260 degrees Celsius within one minute. Choice cuts of beef, chicken, pork and salmon are served with rice and vegetables for guests to cook and season using flavors of teriyaki, onion sauce, honey brown sauce (Amakuchi) or garlic soy sauce (Karakuchi)—and that dash of freshly ground pepper to give you that delicious, flavor-filled meal. Now there are over 200 Pepper Lunch outlets in Japan and all over Asia, including South Korea, China, Taiwan, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines.

Mesa
(located at the ground floor of the main mall, in front of BDO)

Thanks to food franchising and restaurant operations company OBIC APIL Inc, Mesa is now coming to SM Lipa. What makes Mesa different from other Filipino cuisine restaurants is its innovative twists to traditional cuisines while not losing the essence of the original recipe. For instance, Lechon, which is loved by all Filipinos for its crispy pork skin is made crispier and thus called “crispchon”. Our well-loved crispy pata on the other hand was made boneless. They also serve sea-foods like Prawns Wrapped in Egg Noodles and Crab in Salted Egg.

Shakeys
(located at the second floor of the main mall, beside Bon Chon)

Another addition to pizza places at SM Lipa is Shakeys. Having started its first store in Metro Manila back in 1975, Shakeys now operates with a strong store count of 177. This will be Shakeys’ second branch in Lipa City. Aside from pizza variations, their best sellers are its mojo potatoes, fried chicken and pasta.

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".

Indonesian Cuisine Is Coming To Lipa

Indonesian cuisine is said to be the most vibrant and colorful cuisines in the world with full of intense flavour. Some of their dishes are bakso (noodle), cap cai (stir fried vegetables), gudeg (vegetable and meat in coconut milk sauce) to name a few.

But the world's best Indonesian cuisines are Rendang and Satay which are #1 and #14 respectively according to CNN Travel. These authentic Indonesian dishes will soon be available to foodies of Lipa City as Sendok and Garpu will open its branch in SM City Lipa.

This incoming restaurant in Lipa is definitely something new in Batangas and will be competing with numerous Filipino, American, Korean, Chinese, Japanese and Italian restaurants available in the city.

Sandok and Garpu will be another first for Lipa and Batangas in general. Their presence will continue to make our city as the food capital of Batangas.

Kuya J and Bagnetified Opens in Lipa

Two more dining out options are added to the growing restaurant businesses at SM City Lipa as Bagnetified and Kuya J opens its doors to the public last December.

Sticking true to its name, Bagnetified incorporates the Ilokano dish bagnet in all of its dishes, thus the name Bagnetified. For instance, instead of using beef, Bagnet is used in its Kare Kare. Same thing goes with their pork sinigang, sisig and even burger. The interior has a contemporary design that allows a laid back casual dining experience.

Kuya J is a homegrown Cebuano eatery, which currently has 19 restaurants across Luzon and Visayas, the latest of which is now up and running at the second floor of the annex building of SM City Lipa. The restaurant is fitted with bright and sophisticated interiors, while serving well-designed and well-executed native dishes that cut across regional palates.

How Big Is SM Lipa Mall?

TRIVIA: Lipa's SM mall is the 15th biggest SM mall in the Philippines and #2 in CALABARZON according to gross floor area as of Sep 2015. Once the new 4 storey parking building will be completed, its gfa will increase to 169,495 sqm and will climb up to #11 or #12.

Expansion of mall or business is a marketing decision of a company based on the growing demand in the area and purchasing power of its patrons. SM City Lipa is competing well with other branches and has been lifted into a premiere mall last 2014 with lots of on going renovation. Here's the top 20:

1. 474,225 - SM MEGAMALL
2. 457,403 - SM CITY NORTH EDSA
3. 406,962 - SM MALL OF ASIA
4. 273,804 - SM CITY CEBU
5. 251,094 - SM AURA PREMIER
6. 201,645 - SM CITY DASMARIÑAS
7. 188,681 - SM CITY FAIRVIEW
8. 184,552 - SM SOUTHMALL
9. 181,593 - SM CITY SAN LAZARO
10. 178,178 - SM CITY MARIKINA
11. 167,812 - SM CITY MANILA
12. 154,020 - SM CITY CABANATUAN
13. 145,174 - SM LANANG PREMIER
14. 144,484 - SM CITY CLARK
15. 141,283 - SM CITY LIPA
16. 137,229 - SM CITY BACOLOD
17. 132,965 - SM CITY STA. MESA
18. 131,818 - SM CITY GENERAL SANTOS
19. 131,158 - SM CITY PAMPANGA
20. 126,425 - SM CITY DAVAO

source: skyscrapercity

Taza Mia Opens 2nd Branch in Lipa City

Taza Mia Coffee or my cup of coffee in English opens its 2nd branch in Lipa City at SM City Lipa annex. Taza Mia is aggressive in expanding their branches in Southern Luzon which started in San Pablo City. By the end of the year they will open 3 more branches for a total of 10 with plan to branch out in Metro Manila and Southeast Asian countries.

Present in the occasion is the very accommodating Mr Rodel Lacorte, President and CEO of Taza Mia. Mr Lacorte is a true blooded Lipeño and certified coffee lover. His beans for Taza Mia are from Lipa which guarantee freshness and world class quality. As we all know, Lipa is noted for coffee industry and once became the world's largest producer of coffee beans.

Taza Mia in SM City Lipa will be operating 24 hours to cater Business Process and Outsourcing employees of Lipa and for those who are looking for a relaxing place to hang out with friends after late night. They also have al fresco which is far from the busy street to dine in or sip your cup of coffee.

What makes Taza Mia different from the other coffee shop available in Lipa is that they are serving breakfast, lunch, dinner, and limited serving of alcoholic products. According to Mr Lacorte, a must try in Taza Mia are roasted caramel and cafe Italiano which are also his favorites.

Lady Christine's Baby Back Ribs Revisited

Originally from Kawit in Cavite, Lady Christine's Baby Back Ribs is now more than a year existing in their branch at SM City Lipa. They are the first restaurant to open in the annex building of the mall located at the 2nd floor.

I have been in this restaurant several times and their meat is absolutely different and highly tempting because of its tenderness and quality taste. No doubt, they have been awarded as the Philippine's Best Baby Back Rib Specialty Restaurant for 2015 by the Philippines' Best Awards and conferred them the Gold Seal of Excellence and World Class quality status.

This country style themed specialty restaurant offers menu from 99 to 1400 pesos per order. Their menu includes pasta, burgers, smoothies, desserts, salad, tuna, sausages and of course baby back ribs. I also got interested with their hamburger because instead of meat patty they are using pulled pork and it was served with iced tea and sweet fried potato for only 175 pesos. I love their dip for the sweet potato and dressing used in hamburger for it blends well with the pulled pork.

Angelica Sesbreño, Lady Christine SM Lipa OIC, is inviting their customers to watch out for their brand new menus that is expected to be available by November of this year. If you are looking for a cozy restaurant with world class quality food to eat with your love ones at reasonable price, please visit them today at 2nd floor of SM Lipa annex.