Eating and Entertainment
Many Manilenos make the journey from the capital just to have lunch at Gourmet Cafe (Aguinaldo Highway on the left-hand side, 3km before you reach the Tagaytay junction). Gourmet Cafe is a well-known chain of country cottage-style restaurants with outlets in the city, but this one was the first. All the food is organic, produced in a colourful garden. Try also to sample buko pie , a delicious coconut pie with crusty pastry that is a speciality of the area and sold by vendors on the ridge above the volcano. The best place to buy hot buko pie is Collette's, a small stall on the road to Talisay. Turn left at the main Tagaytay roundabout and Collette's is 200m on your left. The Taal area has dozens of other restaurants , most of them on the ridge. Sadly, it has also been rather overrun by big chains and fast-food joints. Look out along the ridge for stalls selling bulalo, a bone-marrow soup. Mushroom Burger is a small roadside restaurant just beyond the Taal Vista Lodge Hotel selling - you guessed - burgers made of local mushrooms, which thrive in the cooler climate. Down by the lake shore in Talisay, along Wencislao Road, there are good rustic eateries selling barbecue and fish. The Freddie Aguilar Music Lounge and Restaurant in the Grandview Complex at the Aquino Monument on Tagaytay ridge is owned by the country's most popular singer, the man whose version of Bayan Ko ("My Country") became the anti-Marcos anthem in the months leading up to the people power revolution. Freddie still plays there at weekends.
TAAL LAKEMila Goss says "black and white picture of the place"
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