My Mercato Centrale Weekend :)

I’ve been hearing people rave about the Mercato Centrale Organic Market and Food Market for months now and it’s only lately that we’ve managed to wake up early enough to actually go and check it out.

Driving all the way to the Fort from Las Pinas early in the morning on a Saturday doesn’t seem like a fun idea.

But finally, last Saturday we were able to enjoy brunch at Mercato Centrale!

Of course, one of our stops was the Jam Foods Angus Beef Tapa booth.

I wasn’t able to take photos of most of the food and vendors, sad to say. It was just so hot that day that all I wanted to do was sit. I didn’t even have an appetite to eat my food because of the scorching heat 😦

Of ALL the days, we had to choose the hottest day to go to Mercato Centrale, haha.

I did, however get to take photos of some of the things that caught my fancy.

Merry Moo Ice cream! I got the Sea Salt Caramel. It was good 🙂 Slightly on the saltier side than sweet, but good nonetheless. P60 a scoop.

I really liked their Rainbow Cakes, hehe 🙂 Tasted like vanilla cake with lemon-y icing.

The one reason why I REALLY wanted to go to Mercato but didn’t end up buying 😦 I was full already.

Other notables (for me anyway) would be the Bagnet Sandwich, the Monster Burger, Healthy Coffee, and Thai Milk Tea from SaThai. For non food items, you can also find a Leyende booth and a Messy Bessy booth.

I would have enjoyed my Mercato Centrale experience more if only it wasn’t so darn hot.

If you plan to check out Mercato Centrale, I suggest going there extra early or check out the Midnight Mercato instead if you’re not particularly tolerable of the heat.

If you plan to visit this Holy Week, here’s their advisory:

In observance of the Holy Week, we will be closed from Good Friday to Easter Sunday. We will resume normal operations in the following week. We have Mercato Centrale on Sat and Sun 7am-2pm, and we have Midnight Mercato on Fri and Sat 10pm-3am.

Link: Mercato Centrale Facebook / Mercato Centrale Website

Mercato Centrale
Daytime Organic Market & Food Market
Saturdays & Sundays 7AM to 2PM

Midnight Mercato
Friday and Saturday 10PM to 3AM

Cor. 34th St. and 8th Ave
(Beside MC Home Depot)

Lia
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12 responses to “My Mercato Centrale Weekend :)”

  1. Nava Krishnan Avatar
    Nava Krishnan

    Plenty of healthy food to buy and taste.

  2. Calvin Avatar
    Calvin

    yikes, we went there a couple of months ago and thankfully di ganun kainit. Super init ngayon and if wanna go there sa gabi na lang. here’s our experience btw… chicken wings galore.
    http://www.calvinshub.com/2011/02/food-finds-at-mercato-centrale/

    ang mahal naman kasi ng mochiko. hehe. did you see the angry birds cupcakes?

  3. Angie Avatar
    Angie

    Will definitely try mochiko kapag nagkaron ako ng time to go there, thanks for sharing 🙂

  4. Lia Avatar
    Lia

    Darn, I didn’t see those donut burgers. They look sinful 😛

    Yup, I saw the cute cupcakes! 😀

    It’s so hot na talaga. I wonder how it’ll affect the other Mercato weekends this summer.

  5. Lia Avatar
    Lia

    Nava, a lot of sinful ones, too 😉

  6. Lia Avatar
    Lia

    Thanks for passing by 🙂

    Yes, try the Mochiko! 🙂

  7. Tinitch Avatar
    Tinitch

    hahaha! I love your blog! funny about the mochiko mochis, same reason rin why i went to mercato but ended up being too full and forgot about it. 😀

  8. u8mypinkcookies Avatar
    u8mypinkcookies

    wow, everything looks so yummy. ive been here once pa lang.

  9. Lia Avatar
    Lia

    Tinitch, It was the first thing and last thing I saw in Mercato… Weird naman if I had mochiko for breakfast, hehe! 🙂

  10. Lia Avatar
    Lia

    u8mypinkcookies, me too. My first time 🙂 I want to go back, but most prolly to the Midnight Mercato because mornings are too hot! 🙂

  11. jake Avatar
    jake

    Just came from that place as well. Overcrowded, overhyped, and hot. May go once or twice but that’s it. Lots of mediocre food as well. There was a lot of pretty upper middle and rich class people around. I guess Manila is just that boring on a Saturday night!

  12. Lia Avatar
    Lia

    Hi Jake, sorry to hear your Mercato Experience was so-so. So I guess you went to the Midnight Mercato? 🙂 I’m not so much into the meat and meals, but I really enjoyed their selection of drinks and dessert 🙂

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