{"id":36006,"date":"2023-04-01T13:00:10","date_gmt":"2023-04-01T05:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/?p=36006"},"modified":"2024-03-11T14:15:50","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T06:15:50","slug":"bad-cafe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/location\/philippines\/makati\/legazpi\/bad-cafe\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad Cafe in Makati: Brian and Dianne&#8217;s Coffee Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When a cup of coffee has hit you so BAD, that&#8217;s when you know it&#8217;s so good that it&#8217;s just something you can&#8217;t live without. Treat yourself with a cup of joe at <strong>Bad Cafe<\/strong> in <strong>Makati\u00a0<\/strong>to know just how it is to breathe in the aroma and feel the sensation of the first sip of coffee that will ultimately gear you up for the day!<\/p>\n<p>Bad Cafe in <strong>Legazpi Village, Makati City<\/strong> is named after the <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">initials of its owners <strong>Brian and Dianne Westphal<\/strong>, a couple whose constant thing that kept them together is their big love for coffee.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"469\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44287\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/10\/Bad-Cafe-Exterior.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/10\/Bad-Cafe-Exterior.png 700w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/10\/Bad-Cafe-Exterior-290x194.png 290w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>IMAGE from Philippine Primer<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In fact,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Brian shared that one of the first things they did after meeting was going to a coffee crawl in Tokyo, Japan!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Bad Cafe<\/strong> has been serving specialty coffee, in-house baked goods, and comfort food to their growing number of loyal patrons, which are mostly women and young professionals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Aside from coffee, they also offer a wide variety of healthy drinks such as ginger lemonade and cucumber and mint shakes, suited for the health buffs around the city.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to try something different, however, you may also try their homemade cola made with a combination of soda, orange, lemon, and cinnamon!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"801\" height=\"534\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-36012\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/10\/PhilippinePrimer_BADCafe19.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/10\/PhilippinePrimer_BADCafe19.jpg 801w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/10\/PhilippinePrimer_BADCafe19-290x193.jpg 290w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/10\/PhilippinePrimer_BADCafe19-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 801px) 100vw, 801px\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>IMAGE from Philippine Primer<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Meanwhile, brunch at Bad Cafe will surely be a delight with their selection of filling comfort food to try just like their <strong>Chicken and Waffle<\/strong> combination that is definitely a winner once you take a big bite.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"417\" height=\"625\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44284\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/10\/Bad-Cafe_Chicken-and-Waffles-P440-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/10\/Bad-Cafe_Chicken-and-Waffles-P440-1.jpg 417w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/10\/Bad-Cafe_Chicken-and-Waffles-P440-1-400x600.jpg 400w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/10\/Bad-Cafe_Chicken-and-Waffles-P440-1-145x218.jpg 145w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 417px) 100vw, 417px\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>Chicken and Waffle (Php 440) \/ IMAGE from BAD Cafe<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Apart from their delicious food, the ambiance of the cafe is another thing to enjoy. The Japanese-minimalist style of the interior is an influence of their love for Tokyo, where the couple first met and got engaged.<\/p>\n<p>Given its ample space, Brian and Dianne envision Bad Cafe to be a community space for collaboration and creativity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"801\" height=\"534\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-36022\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/10\/PhilippinePrimer_BadCafeInt2.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/10\/PhilippinePrimer_BadCafeInt2.jpg 801w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/10\/PhilippinePrimer_BadCafeInt2-290x193.jpg 290w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/10\/PhilippinePrimer_BadCafeInt2-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 801px) 100vw, 801px\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>IMAGE from Philippine Primer<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Events like storytelling, poetry reading, and calligraphy workshops have been held in the cafe since their opening. They also cater to corporate events and even bridal showers, making Bad Cafe a witness to milestones and celebrations in Makati.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bad Cafe in Makati has been serving specialty coffee, in-house baked goods, and comfort food to their growing number of loyal patrons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":44288,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,112,72,4830],"tags":[4624,4625,4630,4629,4631,4626,1603],"class_list":["post-36006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legazpi","category-makati","category-cafe-resto","category-legaspi-village-restaurant-2019","tag-bad-cafe","tag-bad-cafe-makati","tag-bad-cafe-makati-menu","tag-bad-cafe-makati-philippines","tag-bad-cafe-menu","tag-cafes-in-legaspi-village","tag-cafes-in-makati"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36006","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=36006"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50359,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36006\/revisions\/50359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}