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Monday, February 06, 2006
The family trio at Postrio
By Jenara Regis Newman
TWO years ago, when Zony Borromeo Escario and her two daughters Corito E. Yu and Janice were thinking of setting up a business, they decided to come up with Postrio located on N.G. Escario Street. It was a natural choice for Zony who grew up with a mother, the late Mercedes Borromeo, who was hands on in the kitchen, whipping up countless gustatory delights for her family who learned not just to love good food but also to prepare it.
Postrio is now also at the Banilad Town Center and the original N. G. Escario outlet has been transferred to Acacia Street.
Zony says it’s really Corito who is the brains behind Postrio, who concocts all the pastries, cakes, breads and food offered by the shop. “The children do not want me to be stressed so I’m just the back-up.”
Janice, a management accounting graduate, says she takes care of the Acacia outlet, which is half the size of the one at BTC, as well as of the small outlets at Foodarama Mango and Guadalupe. Corito takes care of the commissary and the Banilad Town Center.
Corito adds that it is Janice who decorates specialty cakes like wedding and birthday cakes. For her part, being the interior decorator in the family, she has made sure that Postrio looks and feels like the place she wants it to be: a wholesome, family-oriented place. It is a well-lighted place with minimal décor and whatever décor there is, is natural, nothing “plastic or flashy or artificial. It’s the same with our ingredients. If we say ube, we use ube, not food coloring.”
Corito expounds that she wants Postrio to reflect a “lifestyle that reflects love, relationships and good food. Which is what life is all about. Life is simple. Good food, good company are the simplest ways to enjoy life.”
So, what does one find in Postrio aside from pastries and breads? There are pastas and salads and some sandwiches and lately, it has offered more substantial dishes like Korean beef stew and spare ribs for heavier meals. And coffee that is Italian; the house blend is imported Italian coffee and it also offers Illy, one of the better known Italian brands, and Italian soda.
“As you can see,” adds Corito, “if Postrio is an East-West blend, the West part looks more to Europe than to the US, in keeping with our own old past. It’s a place where you can sit down take your time to eat with family and friends and have a personal feel of the place. Even our baño is very personal.”
So what are the crowd favorites? Zony says sugar free whole wheat loaf bread, whole wheat pan de sal and Hawaiian pizza bread. Janice adds moist chocolate cake, chicken pie and apple pie, individual cakes. Corito completes the list with cassava cake, ube loaf cake, marble loaf bread.
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