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Wednesday, August 09, 2006
Partying by the dozen
By Kara Mae Muga Noveda
Is it the red drink or the blue drink?
In Numero Doce’s (lot location number 12 of the burgeoning nightlife central in Mango Square) matrix, such offers refer to the hot-selling frozen cocktails: the vodka-based and non-lethal Blue Kamikazee versus the Frozen Strawberry Margarita (preferred by the sweet-toothed ladies).
In keeping up with the namesake, Numero Doce houses 12 Pinoy food specialties, 12 cocktail drinks and 12 tables, plus the fact that the party usually strikes around 12 midnight.
But the competitive spirits doesn’t exist only between the drinks of choice—here, no Johnny-come-lately can land on seats—but who’s to weep over occupied chairs when people willingly come to party in swaying, standing ovation.
Just as the bar overflows with orders that easily come as they go, where satisfied regulars swear they don’t take more than ten minutes—the mercurial (by the passing impious hour) partyphiles are just as fidgety. At around midnight, dining sets sidestep and make a gravel-floored dance floor where musical anthems include a head rush of house music (dabbled with R n’ B and tribal interludes) that lets everyone loose. Slinky stilettos sink in the pebbles, strangers move in a labyrinth of their own. This is how uptown Cebu parties in 2006, sans the disco ball of course.
If you’re hungry from dancing, you can fork through some sizzling sisig.
“Almost all of the dishes are priced under P100, and the drinks are available in economized pitchers-full for the barkada,” says alcohol-expert Chingkay who also handles the sales for Jack Daniels in Cebu before her party hours.
Sober behind this busy bar is the gracious quartet of hosts, friends-cum- business-partners: Chingkay Floro, Jun-jun Sia, Arcel Verra and Rhoel Dejaño (medical doctor by day) who’ve fleshed accessible night entertainment, forgiving to most pockets.
“From sunset to sunrise, that’s how these kids spend the night over,” shares Rhoel, the bartender, as he tends to his flock safely fenced in their bar.
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