The new Astralis.

A few nights ago, I dined with some friends for dinner at the Restaurant Le Bellevue in Diamond Hotel. We were there to try out the menu that will be served at their new restaurant, the Astralis, which will open in Powerplant come September. It will be where Rastro was located. Rastro closed down July, I think. We had dinner there during its last few weeks, hoping to find that Mati atmosphere we miss...

Moving on... the food was great! It was sort of a dry-run-slash-food-tasting so we pretty much had to give comments afterwards. I'll reserve those for my ex-boss ;) but here are some of the food we tasted. I had Baked Camembert Cheese and Wagyu Burger Patties - loved the burger!



We also tried, for starters, Cauliflower dip with poppyseed flatbread (my personal fave), the Fresh mozzarella, tomato, grilled zucchini with mescluna and ciabatta parmesan toast, and the Apple and smoked bacon salad. Then my friends had the Pan-grilled Philippine seabass, Roasted beef tenderloin, and Pan-grilled lamb chops (didn't bother to post the photos coz the lighting was just baaad).



For desserts, we had the Tofu cheesecake, Profiterolles of the Islands, and Fresh fruit platter. Yu-mmmy! Too bad I won't be able to check out the place pretty soon.