Chefs Alfred Santiago & Aaron Isip in rare collab at Waterside

If you're looking for an exciting new dining adventure, there's no need to look any further than what our talented chefs can do with our very own Filipino food.

- VICKY VELOSO-BARRERA

The upcoming Four Hands Dinner at Solaire's Waterside restaurant on Nov. 24 is a good case in point.

While our appetites will always be ready for Pinoy dishes that are traditionally prepared, Filipino cuisine has most certainly evolved in the hands of gifted Filipino chefs like Waterside's Alfred Santiago and Kasa Palma's Aaron Isip. The former is a Michelin-trained chef while the latter trained in France, and now runs a much-loved restaurant on Palma Street in Poblacion, Makati.

These two seasoned chefs focus mainly on the use of the grill to coax the most flavor out of a range of local ingredients, prepared in ingenious ways. The sophisticated Waterside restaurant, located at Solaire Resort Entertainment City, is a perfect setting for an elevated Filipino meal. The sparkling Christmas trees add to the festive mood as we inch ever closer to the holidays.

Lobsters cooked like lechon, beef short ribs, caviar, oysters, snapper and more in this four-hands dinner at Solaire

We were able to try the dishes chefs Alfred and Aaron are preparing for the exclusive dinner on the 24th—from beginning to end, everything was amazing.