From the Picnic Grove, we then went to Mahogany Market for a budget lunch. Mahogany Market is actually famous for the numerous food stalls to the side across the main market, serving beef bone marrow soup or bulalo at a more affordable price compared to the restaurants located along the highway. Here, you are assured that the meat and ingredients used are fresh since they are located just right across the market. They also serve exotic dishes such bull testicles, tripe and intestines as local delicacies.
The market itself is well known for selling freshly butchered, homegrown beef meat at low prices. You can also buy fresh fruits and veggies here, even herbs and decorative plants. Your Tagaytay tour is not complete if you did not drop by Mahogany Market and check out what it has to offer.
Choosing a particular food stall where you could eat is kind of a tough one since they basically look the same and seem to offer the same menus for the same price range. In the end, we just chose the cleanest-looking stall tables near to where we parked our car. If my memory serves me right, I believe the name of the stall is Barboza's Kitchenette.
The Food
For our lunch, we ordered the following: (Sorry, I wasn't able to take pics of the food because the kids were just so hungry at that moment)
-fried chicken for the kids (as usual!)
-papaitan (exotic dish made of beef or goat innards; may or may not contain bile, giving it a bitter taste)
-laing (dish made from dried taro leaves cooked in coconut milk)
-caldereta
-refillable bulalo soup
-rice
-bottle of water
All these for just Php400, great news for people looking for budget eats. Plus, we get to have unlimited bananas! They even let us take home the remaining bananas on the table because the kids loved them so much.
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| Just had lunch at Barboza's Kitchenette, Mahogany Market |
About the taste of the food, the papaitan was very good. It wasn't so bitter and it smelled none of the innards it was made of. The caldereta tasted good as well. Bulalo soup was tasty, despite it being just a plain soup with no meat at all. However, the laing was a disappointment with its so-so taste.
The only thing about eating in Mahogany Market is that you get disturbed by vendors selling various stuff while you're eating. You get endless offers of espasols (rice cake), tawilis (dried sardines), even knives in different sizes (including the balisong). I understand that you're within the market premises and that these people also need to earn their living, but they can at least let people finish their meals first before they approach them to sell their wares.
Barboza's Kitchenette
Mahogany Market
Mahogany Ave, Tagaytay City
How to get there:
From Tagaytay Rotonda, drive to the direction going to Batangas. After passing by the row of restaurants, there's a Y-road with a Petron gas station at the middle. Turn right and look for the Hall of Justice Building. Mahogany Market is located at the back.
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