{"id":15487,"date":"2017-02-15T10:00:21","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T02:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/?p=15487"},"modified":"2017-02-14T15:36:44","modified_gmt":"2017-02-14T07:36:44","slug":"the-countrys-first-high-grounds-cafe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/restaurant-type\/cafe-resto\/the-countrys-first-high-grounds-cafe\/","title":{"rendered":"The country\u2019s first: High Grounds Caf\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hardcore Filipino gamers finally have a place they can truly call their own: <strong>High Grounds Caf\u00e9.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"221\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15489\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/02\/banner.png\" alt=\"banner\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/02\/banner.png 600w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/02\/banner-290x107.png 290w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>High Grounds Caf\u00e9, the country\u2019s first and only fully branded gaming caf\u00e9, takes the humble internet caf\u00e9 and takes it to (quite literally) a higher ground. It\u2019s a combination of a restaurant, coffee shop, and internet caf\u00e9 all rolled into a convenient package located along Scout Rallos Street in Quezon City.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15488\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/02\/exterior.jpg\" alt=\"exterior\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/02\/exterior.jpg 600w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/02\/exterior-290x163.jpg 290w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>LONG LINES AWAITED GAMERS during its opening last Friday, February 10.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Gamers usually encounter three problems with their run-of-the-mill internet caf\u00e9: intermittent internet connection, PCs that aren\u2019t up to speed, and a lack of things to do while you wait for your turn.<\/p>\n<p>High Grounds solves all these with their blazing fast internet connection (500 mbps for gaming and 200 mbps for surfing), a combination of Acer Predator G1 and G3 gaming desktops (110 units in all), and their caf\u00e9 and restaurant to satisfy your appetite before, during, and after your gaming marathons.<\/p>\n<p>With this set-up, High Grounds Caf\u00e9 looks to be the breeding ground for the country\u2019s fast-rising e-Sports scene.<\/p>\n<p>You can find High Grounds Caf\u00e9 at 67 Scout Rallos St., Tomas Morato, Quezon City. They are open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Rental rates are at P100\/hour. For reservations, please call 02-461-1886, 02-880-2037, or 02-405-2225.<\/p>\n<p><em>All photos grabbed from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/highgroundsofficial\/\">High Grounds Cafe on Facebook<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wheninmanila.com\/high-grounds-cafe-the-philippines-first-e-sports-arena\/\">When In Manila<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.psst.ph\/predator-high-grounds-cafe-is-now-open\/\">PSST.ph<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.semicurrent.com\/2017\/02\/09\/acer-predator-g1-high-grounds-cafe-launch-official\/\">Semi-Current<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.speed-mag.com\/news\/predator-tnc-high-grounds-cafe\/\">Speed Magazine<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hardcore Filipino gamers finally have a place they can truly call their own: High Grounds Caf\u00e9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,87],"tags":[606,605,607,608],"class_list":["post-15487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cafe-resto","category-tomas-morato","tag-acer","tag-high-grounds-cafe","tag-predator","tag-tnc"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15487","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=15487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15491,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15487\/revisions\/15491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}