It was my first time in DolceLatte for Fozzy Dayrit's Calligraphy 2.0. I had signed up not even knowing where and what the place was. I assumed at the least that it's a coffee place.
It's near the Skating Rink of SM Megamall Fashion Hall so when that place is busy, you can hear people cheering at the skaters from inside the coffee shop. Which kind of makes it not the quiet place to be, but then again, it's a mall after all.
After about an hour and a half of calligraphy drills, we were given plates. I had assumed that we were going to be given sandwiches or light snacks plus a dessert because that's how it usually is with these workshops, but to my surprise they served us almost a full course meal!
At first they put some chicken tenders on our table for sharing. With some kind of pimiento sauce which was okay, but if you put the sour cream dip it was really good. Even with just the sour cream dip it was good already.
Then after a few minutes (by this time I had filled myself up cause I thought the next one was just going to be a piece of pizza, like they said), they put some nachos for sharing again. Same dips but with salsa this time. It's pretty okay, but again, I filled myself up cause I thought it was going to be just a slice of pizza next.
To my surprise, the waitress put a plate of pasta (really good bolognese) in front of me. It was a tiny plate which I thought was going to be for sharing since the pizza was coming, but to my surprise we all were given a plate of spaghetti!
After less than 5 minutes, they gave us a slice of pizza each. By this time, I was pretty full but hey I paid good money for this so I tried my best to finish both the pizza and pasta.
See, I love pizza and they just had to top it with two of my favorites: prosciutto and arugula!
We also had unlimited iced tea so I thought that was over. But guess what... NOPE!
We still had one big slice of brownie each! Of course, I had to choose the one with marshmallows which I just stared at. I was so full that I asked if I could just take it home.
I was actually so full that doing drills became difficult. Total food coma on my side. So after a cigarette and came back and finished my drills.
In the middle of one of Fozzy's lectures, a plate of nachos was placed in front of me and I honestly had a two second heart attack. In my head I said, "MORE FOOD?!" Only to find out that they had just transferred the unfinished nachos to another plate. So phew!
So basically my day was full of not only calligraphy but food. Although I wouldn't mind going back there just to have those chicken tenders and pizza again. read more