Sample mouth-watering cuisines from the east and west cooked right before your eyes. Hyatt Hotel and Casino Manila brings you Market Cafe, located on the third floor of Manila’s premier hotel. Market Café indeed sets a trend in Manila’s local scene.
Market Cafe introduces interactive dining with its unique and innovative concept of show kitchens and live cooking. This dining spot is surely gaining popularity as “the dining place” in the Manila area and definitely as the “premier choice”.
Market Cafe greets you with an array of baskets filled with freshly crafted fruits and vegetables by Filipino artisans. Designed by the Hong Kong-based, world-renowned Bilkey Llianas Design, modern is crossed with inspirations from finely made Filipino baskets, giving it a relaxing, cozy, modern, Filipino ambience.
Open from 6:00am to 11:00pm daily, Market Café is an all-day dining restaurant, with a self-service market style set-up, where cooking is elevated to performance art. A gallery of show kitchens and live cooking stations featuring international cuisine and using only the freshest seasonal products available. Market Café serves à la minute dishes, cooked in small portions, so that no chafing dishes are required.
There is always something new in the menu. There is a wide selection of dishes with several stations to choose from, each with its own unique flavor and style. There are four main show kitchens where food is cooked right in front of the guest as requested and three food stations to add to the variety.
The Show Kitchens
The Western Kitchen
The Western Kitchen showcases authentic European and American cuisine straight off the grill, oven, pan or spit (rotisserie) and onto your plates. To just a bite of Whole baby Lamb Cutlets on Skewers, add a spoon full of Sautéed Green Beans with Bacon and send your taste buds off to savoury heaven. This kitchen also offers a variety of Pizzas, like the fanciful Frutti di mare, with scallops, mussels, clams, prawns and basil pesto, and Pastas like the sensational Spaghetti with garlic, chili, sun-dried tomatoes and extra virgin oil, which will surely make you beg for more.
Click here to read more about the other show kitchens at the Market Cafe.
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Read more about the other show kitchens at the Market Cafe.
The Japanese Kitchen
The Japanese Kitchen takes you off your shoes and sends you straight to Japan with its Sushi & Sashimi, Yakimono, Tempura and Teppan sections cooked and prepared by experienced Japanese chefs.
The Japanese cuisine delicately combines the flavour and texture of ingredients to create an elegance and harmony that so typifies the Japanese style. Surely Japanese cuisine lovers will enjoy the authenticity of dishes served in this kitchen.
The Chinese Kitchen
The Chinese Kitchen is as busy as any Chinese kitchen, with plenty of action behind the counter while you dig in on Noodles & Dim Sum, Chinese Wok and Hong Kong
Barbecue, presenting you with colourful, aromatic and delightfully real Chinese cuisine to surely excite your palate. Stir Fried Fillet of Beef in Oyster Sauce, Beef Brisket Noodles in Gravy, Roast Duck, Suckling Pig, Soy Chicken, to name just a few.
The Indian Kitchen
The Indian Kitchen brings the diverse and varied flavours of authentic Indian cuisine in the form of popular dishes from north India. Delight in the appealing tastes and textures of Tandoori Chicken, Lamb Rogan Josh, Lamb Biryani, Paneer Ki Khurchan, with freshly made Naan and Rotti bread, to name just a few of the specialties.
Click here to read more about the other show kitchens at the Market Cafe.
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Read more about the other show kitchens at the Market Cafe.
The Bakery and Dessert Kitchen
The Bakery and Dessert Kitchen to top off everything, serving assorted ice creams and sorbets, Apple Strudel in Vanilla Sauce, homemade cakes, Hot Crepes, etc. That’s if you still have enough space left in your stomach and aren’t trying to avoid those extra calories.
The sumptuous fare is the showcase of the artistry of Pastry Chef Johann Dreisger, who specializes in producing great tasting, high quality desserts and breads. An Austrian-born national, Chef Johann has worked in different Hyatt hotels all around the world, including Hyatt Regency Belgrade, Park Hyatt Hamburg and his most recent, Grand Hyatt Mumbai. He brings with him more than 25 years of enhanced skills and culinary experience in the Pastry industry.
And that’s not all!
Food Stations
There are more stations to choose from where the food is served fresh and ready to eat. These are the AntiPasto, Crustacean, Korean, Filipino and the Salad station.
The Antipasto station offers a selection of lip-smacking seafood, hors d’oeuvres, marinated vegetables, cheeses and condiments.
The Crustacean table serves fresh prawns, crabs, mussels, clams and oysters on ice.
The Korean station offers Dak Kang Jung and Kimchi Jii Gae, and Kimchi Fried Rice.
The local delicacies include Adobo, Beefsteak and Afritada.
The Salad bar has seasonal market produce with varied homemade salad dressings.
Click here to learn more about the Market Cafe's operation schedule and seating capacity.
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Operation Schedule / Seating Capacity
Market Cafe serves buffet breakfast from 6:00 to 10:30 in the morning, buffet lunch from 12:00 to 2:30 and buffet dinner from 6:00 to 10:00 in the evening. An à la Carte menu is available from 6:00am to 11:00pm. The restaurant accommodates up to 202 guests with a comfortable number of 4, 6, 8 and 10 tables.
Reservations and Enquiries
For reservations and enquiries, call the Market Cafe on +63 2 245 1234 ext 7225 and 7226.
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