{"id":11803,"date":"2016-01-12T17:38:17","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T09:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/?p=11803"},"modified":"2018-07-16T18:09:57","modified_gmt":"2018-07-16T10:09:57","slug":"hill-station-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/location\/philippines\/baguio-northern-luzon\/hill-station-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Hill Station in Baguio City: Culinary tribute to Baguio’s history"},"content":{"rendered":"

Updated: July 16, 2018<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Housed inside Casa Vallejo, a century-old pre-World War II structure along Upper Session Road in Baguio, Hill Station<\/strong> serves as a culinary tribute to Baguio\u2019s beginnings. Through the creative concoctions of Hill Station owner Mitos Yniguez, you will, quite literally, get a taste of the rich past of Baguio.<\/p>\n

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Historically, hill stations were built by the Europeans in their Asian colonies to serve as a little refuge for health and relaxation. These hill stations, including Baguio, have evolved into modern tourist hotspots and resort cities. But there are still places like Hill Station that keeps history etched in their architecture and food offerings.<\/p>\n

True enough, Hill Station feels like a fragment from Baguio\u2019s past. The ambiance is rustic, elegant and dreamy, like a traditional European luxury lodge. There is a caf\u00e9 area at the entrance, where you can order local quality coffee along with delicious pastries and cakes.<\/p>\n

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Past the caf\u00e9 is a much more spacious dining area, a good place for groups and families to indulge in dishes that are a fusion of Asian and Western flavors and cooking styles.<\/p>\n

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We especially loved their\u00a0Orzo Pasta\u00a0<\/strong>with shrimps, mussels, calamari, and sun-dried tomatoes, served with rosemary focaccia bread. Interestingly, it\u2019s like a cross between pasta and rice. If you\u2019re not familiar with Orzo, a short-cut pasta, you might mistake it as rice. You\u2019ll immediately find the difference with the texture in the mouth. Orzo, like any regular pasta, is firm and smooth as opposed to rice which is soft and sticky. Our final verdict is: the Orzo Pasta is a tomato pasta with refreshing seafood goodness!<\/p>\n

\"\"Orzo Pasta (Php 360)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Another lovable dish is their\u00a0Smoked Paprika Roasted Salmon<\/strong>\u00a0which has a glazing of a sweet and spicy homemade chutney sauce and paired with mashed potato.<\/p>\n

\"\"Smoked Paprika Roasted Salmon (Php 560)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Be sure to also try their\u00a0Caesar Salad with Cold-Smoked Beef Carpaccio<\/strong>, a light yet filling dish made with carpaccio beef marinated for a week and then smoked. The salad dressing is a combination of Caesar and homemade pesto which adds to the creamy and luscious flavors.<\/p>\n

\"\"Caesar Salad with Cold-Smoked Beef Carpaccio (Php 320)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Hill Station is\u00a0nestled on the more tranquil section of Session Road, just a short walk from the main thoroughfare. This restaurant is especially charming during off-peak hours when the place is calm and the historic atmosphere seems to pull you away from the\u00a0here and now. Let yourself have a spoonful of Baguio’s history and take your taste buds back in time with the flavors of Asia’s hill stations.<\/p>\n

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Written by Rei Lea\u00f1o<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let yourself have a spoonful of Baguio’s history and take your taste buds back in time with the flavors of Asia’s hill stations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":23819,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251,65,41,2022],"tags":[2112,1429,2017,2016],"class_list":["post-11803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-european","category-italian","category-baguio-northern-luzon","category-baguio-2018","tag-hill-station-baguio","tag-historical-site","tag-restaurants-in-baguio","tag-where-to-eat-in-baguio"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11803"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23820,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11803\/revisions\/23820"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}