Tags: Food Establishments, Food Fare and Dishes, Seafood
By Alexander Villafania
PASIG CITY, METRO MANILA – When Tiendesitas officially opened in 2005 , its surrounding lots were barren. Now, there’s an SM Hypermart and the Silver City Mall that has more modern restaurants.
The Ark Avilon Zoo and a huge kiddie park was also opened, essentially expanding the area’s popularity. A new call center, Transcom was also opened. Further development is also being seen nowadays, especially as the new housing development, The Grove by Rockwell, is being constructed just across C-5 across Tiendesitas.
But even before all the development, Tiendesitas already became a popular haven for dwellers of nearby villages of White Plains, Green Meadows, and Blue Ridge. But it’s also a favored lunch and after-office hang out place for employees from Ortigas Center and Libis.
In fact, it already has its own fan page in Facebook. It also has a comfortable, home-like feel to it. It’s also unique both in visual design and selling concept.
The place’s architecture is based on a mix of Spanish and Filipino-style markets wherein there is only a huge roof that covers a sprawling space filled with various kinds of vendors. This is typically the same design followed by public markets in the provinces wherein vendors share common spaces to sell their wares.
As the name implies, Tiendesitas actually means “small stores” in Spanish and as such, there are small stores that are grouped into different categories called villages. There are the handicrafts village, fashion village, personal care and novelties village, antiques, garden and furniture villages.
The good thing here is that they are all in evenly spaced stalls, which makes for hassle-free shopping. An entry in the blog Rebyu also reviewed Tiendesita’s stall lay out.
While the shops are placed at the outer sides of marketplace, the back of the center area has a dampa-style food court while the front part has a wide open space for special events such as pet shows and midnight sales. The roof on top of the food court has a tent-like structure accented by several masts apparently from vinta boats. Some natural light flows through the sieves, which gives ambient lighting to the food court.
Tiendesitas’ food court is similar to the ones found in provincial wet markets, minus the presence of fish and meat shops. What they do have are various kinds of food stalls that sell unique food stuff from provinces.
Doc Gelo wrote about his experience while taking lunch in Tiendesitas. Anton Diaz of Our Awesome Planet also wrote his experiences at the food court, focusing his “five reasons” to certain shops that offer Filipino food. Another blogger named Prudence wrote about her dinner at one of the seafood restaurants in Tiendesitas called Buma. Others have also written several reviews of the unique restaurants in Tiendesitas.
Just the same, there’s a lot to be seen in Tiendesitas, especially with the food.
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This place is really nice, lalo na pag friday night. May mga live band kasi and Prism band is one of the bands na inaabangan ng mga suki sa tiende especially me. It’s been our hang out for almost every friday night. Thanks for this article.