Reliable menu, friendly waitstaff, and elegant but warm interiors. These are some of the reasons that regular patrons claim on why they keep returning to 25-year-old restaurant Chateau 1771.
The restaurant recently added new offerings to their menu—a welcome addition to some of our favorites. A little change here or there, Chateau 1771 confirms that it still serves the best food created by Executive Chef Vicky Rose Pacheco. And here are more reasons why you should revisit the classic restaurant in your next night out.
1. No borders cuisine
Chateau 1771 started out as a French restaurant and but now serves French, Italian, Swiss, and no-borders cuisine. “By no borders, we mean you can ask for specific things to be changed in the menu or on your dish because you don’t like it, or if you are in a particular diet,” says Kirk Daquioag, Chateau Group marketing manager. “Restaurants would say no they wouldn’t do that, whereas here, we will always, if we can, oblige to your request.
2. Healthy, organic ingredients
A welcome addition to the Chateau 1771 is the organic dishes such as the chicken, pork shoulders, and vegetables.
“If we can find a good source of ingredients, we try to make it organic,” shares Daquioag. “For example, all our chicken dishes are organic, the pork shoulder (the only pork dish in the menu) is organic. We also serve organic vegetable, organic rice, so that you would have a lot more choices to side dishes and things like that.”
“We try to give healthier choices,” he says. “So, if you are in any specific diet, be it Cohen diet, low carbs diet, there is something for you.”
3. More seafood dishes
If you have been browsing Chateau 1771’s menu, then you would have certainly noticed the wider selection of seafood that they have been carrying since late last year. There have been some add-on sea food dishes to the choices, a delight to any pescetarian.
“We have a section which has a variety of different fishes and as well as a local fish of the day and you can have that cooked in three different ways,” says Daquioag.
Selections include Norwegian salmon, ocean trout, halibut, or the local fish of the day to be cooked according to your preference. The restaurant also offers it in three different ways: steamed covered with bokchoy, leek and carrot cream sauces, and mashed potato, sautéed then covered with bread crumbs then baked with lemon butter, and then baked with fresh lemon thyme, extra virgin olive oil & pecan nuts, and rice. Seafood such as fish or prawns can also be grilled.
4. Slow-cooked meats
The selection of cocette (small casserole) fare is another welcome addition to the menu.
Meat are slowly cooked together with spices such as oregano, sage, rosemary, and many more in the cocette giving your tastebuds utmost pleasure. Pick your choice of lamb, veal, beef, duck, or pork to be served in the tiny casserole.
5. More delectable dishes to come
Chateau 1771 first started in Malate. CEO Ricky Gutierrez wanted to offer something to the internationals who were dining there. Over the course of the years, the influences—Italian, French—for Chateau has changed.
The restaurant has become known for its signature dishes such as the Raclette, Flaming Potence, Caesar Salad, and Pasta Chorizo. “But it is our ability to adapt to changing times and market which is reflected in surviving for 25 years, but not only surviving but excelling in what we do. I am sure the way we are going, we have got another 25 years to go,” Daquioag says.
• Chateau 1771 is located on the Ground Level of Greenbelt 5, Greenbelt, Paseo de Roxas cor. Legaspi St., Ayala Center, Makati City. For inquiries, (+632) 729-9761.
source: interaksyon.com
