SONYA'S GARDEN

WE had the chance to visit Sonya’s garden the other week. We made a booking for a dinner with them a week before our arrival to their place. It is necessary to book before going to the place in order to be accommodated. We paid PHP610 per person on Buffet set up (Eat all You Can). The menu includes Create your own Garden Salad ( consisting of lettuce, arugula, mango, broad, beans eggs, cucumber, jackfruit, pineapple, white corn, etc. drizzled with Sonya’s Secret Salad Dressing); whole wheat sesame bread with different dips and toppings, pasta with two kinds of sauces and toppings such as sun dried tomato and chicken cream with mango topped with ratatouille, salmon belly, shitake mushroom, black olives, capers and grated parmesan cheese. The dessert consisted of glazed sweet potato with mint leaves, banana rolls with sesame and jackfruit, and homemade chocolate cake. Bottomless fresh dalandan juice and tarragon tea was also served. An extra order of braised chicken with potatoes would cost you PHP650 while roast chicken, PHP495.

At PHP610 I thought I was quite shortchanged. In the first place an Eat all You Can dinner has always been not applicable to me because I think my stomach is too small to accommodate too much food. Besides, I never overfeed myself.  Now for my other companions who can really eat as much as they could, I think the PHP610 has been worth. They enjoyed eating as I observed.  As for me I enjoyed the fresh dalandan juice and the green salad too. Now for their dessert, I found nothing special about the glazed sweet potato and banana rolls because those are but the ordinary snacks we eat in the office almost every afternoon. Well anyway the place is teeming with plants which make Sonya’s garden look like a restaurant inside a forest. As I went around the place, I found the flowers around enjoyable but I noticed the gardens need to be manicured especially in the Bed and Breakfast section. The plants are sprouting just here and there. I thought it would be better if it was arranged and trimmed well just as like those in famous parks. The cosmos flowers are all over which reminds me of my elementary days because my school then was also filled with cosmos plants and they were blooming all year round. They have a very big greenhouse which looks well cared with all the plants looking healthy and blooming.

We had the chance to meet the gracious owner, Ms. Sonya who is a very cordial lady. Even the staffs were accommodating and hospitable too.

If you have the time go and visit Sonya’s garden and have a feel of this place and see how you will rate this.