BASELINE is more than just a restaurant with function rooms, a ballroom, and an Olympic Hall for various gatherings. It is also where the action is. It is a venue for several sports activities: tennis, billiards, darts, plus a fitness gym for progressive-resistance training (or PRT) and aerobics. The place also offers lessons in aikido, karatedo and taekwando.
To use the facilities, one does not have to be a member. One only has to book the particular facility one wants and voila! It’s there for one’s use: no membership fees or monthly dues necessary.
For gym use, some people opt to pay monthly while others pay per session. The mode of payment is all up to the person’s convenience.
Baseline has been in existence for the past 35 years. During the time when pelota was very popular, it had four pelota courts to serve the pelota players.
At one time, it also had a wall for wall climbing. Today, to give ballroom dancers a place to do their thing, Baseline open its ballroom in the afternoons of Wednesday and Friday, from 2 to 7 p.m. Attire is casual, and there are dance instructors available, at no extra cost (though one can choose to bring one’s own dance instructor or DI).
Aside from the main restaurant, the sprawling complex also opened other food outlets: Sideline Garden, which is a native food outlet and attracts families and foreigners; and Sideline, which caters to younger crowd, mostly in their 20s and 30s, who love to drink in the company of their peers.
The Baseline complex is owned and operated by the Cañizares family’s RIASJAC Development Corporation.
