To really off the tongue on what good Italian pizza is really all about is a must, fusion pizzas should be honest in ingredient carriage, for this matter, the oriental twist is highlighted. Being Filipinos, pizza cooking, need be lifting the Pinoy palate.

PIZZA PIZZA!!!

In Taste’s recent quest for the best fusion Pizza, La Gondola stood as a muse with the best Waterfront hotel had to offer, good ambiance italianic-vivaldic etudes of herbs and aromas with the company of beautiful women as Renee and Arbie, fume the afternoon sun.

Chef Nicholas James Anderson, a Swiss guy (very crazy one, but crazily makes good food, ey) who devotes his cooking-life in Cebu’s hunger for fine food; cooking the best of fusion Italiana, and sous service, he posts to be the executive sous chef of the Hotel.

In an afternoon spree of sun-capturing moments, the appetizer took flight with roulade shunks, and bread sticks from homegrown pizza-dough, it went with a Chilean Chardonnay 2002 of Sta. Elena Vineyard. Followed by hows-Manila-and-St.-Theresa’s-pride-chika-stories, a crunchy Ceasar’s feast, boomed a salad-fill out of us with a perfect combination of greens and crunchy bit-bits, and olives. It was a heaven with the company of pretty ladies as Arbie and Renee.

But for a straight tasteful-verbal ejaculation on how to explain what is the best fusion pizza in the Philippines is, La Gondola’s soon to come concoction was ethereal.

An Italian Sauvignon blanc 2000 of Colio wetted all palates with fruity aftertastes. Pepperoni blistering slices gave salinity to the pizza’s perfect fusion of button mushrooms, capers, anchovies, tomato-cudds, and a musing orientalian taste topping of shrimps’ best catch.

Clearly, the afternoon was a shimmer of italian’s best with the edge of Oriental-Pizza.

It went and ended in a line up with hearty Italian Minestrone Soup (tomato-onion feast,) Pan Fried Sole Fillet with tomato mousseline, Asparagus, and shrimp Ravioli, a grandiose of desserts and chocolate pralines.

To conclude the great La Gondola experience will never be forgotten, La Gondola is the best place to eat pure Italianas, and fusion taste without being strangers in a plate of Cebuano tastebuds.

It will never be forgotten, It will never be forgotten, it will never be.

For Taste, it will be our prelude to conquer the country, and search for the best the archipelago has to offer, because the Philippines is simply our own.