Despedida Buffet Lunch

My nieces' visa for Germany has recently been approved and issued. My cousin (their mother) will be coming home on the 15th to pick them up and throw a small despedida party. We originally decided on getting large food orders from Conti's instead of getting a caterer due to space constraints at home. However, I woke up today and found out that Ensogo is currently running a deal with Vikings SM Marikina:

The deal features lunch buffet on weekdays good for 30 people for only P16,249. Sweet! I talked to my cousin about it and we agreed to purchase the voucher and reserve our event with Vikings SM Marikina. I spoke to Joy who immediately confirmed our reservation in September. 

We are also having dinner here on Dan's birthday in September. With all that gastronomic feasts, I guess I have to work twice as hard in working out next month =)

Eastwood Richmonde Hotel

I got an email regarding the opening of Eastwood Richmonde Hotel and thought of booking a room this December. However, hubby was discouraged when we heard that they don't offer buffet breakfast yet so instead, we decided to try their dinner buffet last Friday.

After splurging on cute little outfits for Zoe at Baby Gap, Baby Guess, and Ralph Lauren, we went to the Eastwood Mall where we had an encounter with Santa Claus. Being Zoe's first Christmas, we couldnt resist taking pics with Santa. Too bad we didnt get a pic of the 3 of us with him since we didnt bring Zoe's yaya along as our official photographer.




Dinner buffet at Eastwood Richmonde Hotel is only 780/pax which of course doesnt include drinks. The spread isnt comparable to Circles or even The Fab (Holiday Inn) but hubby and I agreed that it's value for money since the dishes are quite good. The advantage of going to a small sized buffet is that you get to sample all or most of the dishes. Whenever we go to The Fab or Circles, my eyes get so overwhelmed that I dont get to eat a lot.

So here are some of the pictures of the food (plus pics of us!). I say some because we didnt get to take pics of the other food that we had since they all went rushing down our tummies especially after all that shopping =)