Food Fancy: Cafe 5845

I love cheese! So when I first heard about Cafe 5845 on the morning news, I've been dying to go there. Finally, I got to try it out with Bella and Ate Claud last Friday.

Cafe 5845 is the first cheese cafe in the whole wide world. It is named as such because of the Guinness world-record made possible by Kraft Foods Philippines and the Magsaysay Institute of Hospitality and Culinary Arts where 5, 845 cheese-infused dishes were prepared in a single day in one venue. They beat India's record last December 2009.

The set-up is nice enough, reminiscent of a European outdoor cafe albeit temporary (I heard it will remain open only until the end of August). The place could have been comfortable with those plush chairs and homey atmosphere except it doesn't have AC, so you sweat buckets after a while.

Linquine with mushroom & ham

Vegetarian Pizza

Penne amatriciana with shrimp & mushroom

The three of us ordered Vegetarian Pizza, Linguine with Ham & Mushroom, Penne Amatriciana with Shrimp & Mushroom, and Crepe. We tried out all 4 available crepes and got another for free. We didn't think twice about trying all available flavors since prices were really affordable. The pastas weren't really great, it was creamy but it lacked saltiness considering the huge amount of cheese sprinkled on top of the dish. Hmmm, I wonder what cheese they used? The Veggie pizza was okay, it's something you must try. As for the crepes, raspberry and strawberry were too sweet for me. But I did like ube crepe and choco-caramel. It tasted just fine. We were also given complimentary chocolate pastries with peanuts. Pampalubag-loob since we waited long for them to serve our orders.

Ate Claud holding up the ube crepe

I just wish I could go back before the end of the month so I could try out the other dishes. It would've been interesting since they'd be offering different dishes everyday. Well, who knows, they just might open a permanent cafe in the near future. :)