Cravings Breakfast Buffet

What I don't like about going for an early run with Vince is that we end up "rewarding" ourselves with calories upon calories of greasy breakfast. So on the morning of June 7, I told him I am on a strict diet and that he can only run with me on one condition: we will only have salad after. So we headed for Cravings Tomas Morato because we have always enjoyed their unlimited salad bars. 

I fell in love with the look of the place. I almost expected to be served with tea and scones on delicate chinaware. 

I assumed this stool is for my bag, because there's one under every table.

And then they dropped the bomb: Their salad bar would only be available around lunchtime. For the meantime, we can order breakfast meals, and it's buffet!

I shot Vince dagger looks for bringing me here and sabotaging my diet again. But it was too late to look for another restaurant because I've taken a dozen pictures already, and the Cravings lady was just so nice, and my bag and I were already comfortably seated.

So I let myself be led to the breakfast spread. 

Vince started with cornflakes. I wanted to have the salad first but could not resist the beef mami. 

For the main course, we were to tell our waiter what we wanted. Over and over (yey!).  Our choices were longganisa, corned beef, beef tapa, boneless bangus. 

Salad, which we came for. And Chicken Tocino, my personal favorite. 

And then it was chaos (it's a ladder, not a pit!). So as we advanced on the ladder, we asked for the bangus, the beef tapa (which I could not chew, although it was really flavorful), the longanisa (tasted like crumpled, wet newspaper, sorry), and corned beef. I still like the chicken tocino best. I requested for scrambled eggs, and they were the fluffiest I've tasted. Vince asked for a poached egg and was given a hard-boiled one. He could not make the waiter understand what poached is. 

But what I consumed most were these warm toasted bread. I think I had about eight bread rolls. Blame it on the herbed butter, which is heavenly. 

And despite all that shameless display of gluttony, Vince and I still found ourselves staring longingly at their display of cakes. We could not decide what to get, mainly because we wanted to taste everything. The kind Cravings lady solved our dilemma and sent us this yummy cherry walnut cheesecake, for free!