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Review: Lemon Café, Boracay

By Kevin Tsai

For college students and especially fresh college graduates, we anticipated post-graduation summer vacation especially since a lot of us would be traveling, let alone flying, parent-less for the first time. But just because you’re on your much-awaited trip doesn’t mean you have to miss out on good, home-cooked meals. And that’s exactly what the Lemon Café offers.

Lemon Café provides everything a home offers – great tasting food, a cozy ambiance and hospitable service at its best. The whole restaurant revolves around its “lemon” theme – from its yellow and lime wallpapers to its service water with slices of lemon. Its coziness and inviting atmosphere made my friends and I instinctively drawn to this place when we were searching for place to grab a bite.

I was very lucky to have chosen to order the Lemons Club Sandwich. It had the works – two huge slices of ciabatta bread with grilled chicken, bacon, shrimps, tomato, lettuce and pesto mayo. If you’re more of the seafood flair, try out their Fresh Shrimp Sandwich – piece after piece of fresh shrimp also on ciabatta bread with a perfectly blended island cocktail sauce. All sandwiches are Php200 and up and come with a side of freshly fried potato chips and dip.

The desserts they offer are equally tempting. Check out their Chocolate Peanut Butter Mousse – smooth chocolate mousse combined perfectly with a twist of peanut butter (Php85). Also try out their Belgian Chocolate Flourless Cake – which is weird because it’s not really cake at all. It doesn’t contain the usual chiffon bottom and icing top as you would imagine a cake to be; rather, it’s a huge block of pure Belgian chocolate goodness served with caramel sauce. Definitely worth the Php180. The only letdown so far I found is the Pan-Fried Mahi-Mahi my friend ordered. It tasted good enough, but a slice of fish and seven baby potatoes was not worth the Php390.

Going to Boracay is the perfect opportunity to try out new things for the first time – island hopping, snorkeling, scuba diving and dining at restaurants not locally found at your hometown. It’s the perfect time to be a little more adventurous and uncommon, because Lemon Café’s meals’ home-cooked goodness will leave you anything but homesick.