Farm to Table Iloilo: good food and an advocacy
Farm to Table, a restaurant located at Megaworld Iloilo Business Park provides diners a healthier alternative because they serve organic, all-natural and monosodium glutamate-free yet delicious dishes from brunch to dinner.
Chef Pauline Gorriceta-Banusing, owner of Farm to Table, shared that the restaurant is not only that but also an advocacy.
She and her husband Gus would go to Iloilo towns such as Dumangas, Barotac, Pavia, Passi, Leon and the nearby island Guimaras to source quality organic produce for their ingredients, thus help local farmers and animal raisers.
Farm to Table has a wide selection of soups, heart-healthy salads, appetizers, pasta and pizza, comfort classics, mains, sandwiches, modern desserts made from local ingredients, gluten-free smoothies, refreshing Probinsyano Shakes and organic coffee.
Here is a list of some of their dishes that you don't want to miss during your visit:
Shrimp Coconut Soft Taco - spicy shrimps, sweet coconut sauce, fresh mango and cabbage
Coconut Fish Balls - their version of the popular street food made with dalagang bukid fish and coconut milk served with siracha sauce and sweet chili dip
Farm to Table Batchoy - fresh egg noodles, organic pork slices, organic pork liver and organic chicken egg (photo source: Farm to Table Facebook page)
Nose to Tail Kare-Kare - natural beef, homemade peanut butter, steamed vegetables, bagoong from the town of Balasan, and casuy nuts
Crispy Pork Belly Slices with raw honey and brown sugar glaze and squash sauce (photo courtesy of Farm to Table Iloilo)
Lamb Adobo - local natural lamb simmered in bay leaves, black pepper, atsuete, natural brown sugar, vinegar from the island of Guimaras, cucumber and farmers tomato salsa
Chicken Honey Kebab, marinated in raw honey from Negros and yogurt, served with barbecue sauce, garlic yogurt dip and whole wheat pita bread triangles.
Fried-Yay Chicken Leg with Kare-Kae Glaze, homemade peanut butter from Pavia made into Kare-Kare glaze and kimchi rice (photo source: Why Going Organic is Good for Us)
Pineapple Seafood Rice is already a complete meal with shrimps, fish cutlets and vegetables
Poke Bowl. Salad that consists of fresh tuna, avocado, nori strips, sprouts, quinoa, egg, calamansi dressing with sesame and ginger
Chicken Barbecue Pizza, sliced onions and mozzarella cheese
Local Pumpkin Cheesecake
Creme Brulee with Native Tablea Bits and Avocado Ice Cream
Probinsyano Shakes. Left: Dumangas - fresh carrot and cucumber share with honey. Right: Barotac - cucumber, pineapple and watermelon
Farm to Table is also home to the biggest selection of all-Filipino, all-natural handcrafted beers with no preservatives. Again, this is part of the restaurant management’s advocacy to support domestic beer growers in the country.
But, they do offer imported wines for variety. They have the largest selection of wines from Sonoma and Napa Valley, Bordeaux France, Australia, Spain, South Africa, the Tuscan Regions of Italy, and of course, the Philippines.
Farm to Table is open daily from 11 am until 11 pm. On Sundays, they offer an exciting lunch and dinner buffet for only P399./
For updates, follow their Facebook page: Farm to Table Iloilo
