{"id":51074,"date":"2025-09-09T18:00:40","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T10:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/?p=51074"},"modified":"2025-10-09T14:33:42","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T06:33:42","slug":"taupe-dining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/location\/philippines\/taguig\/taupe-dining\/","title":{"rendered":"Taupe Dining in BGC: Chef Francis Tolentino’s Culinary Playground of Filipino Delights"},"content":{"rendered":"

Opened in 2024, Taupe <\/strong>in BGC<\/strong> is an intimate 30-seat fine-dining restaurant led by Chef Francis Tolentino.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"IMAGE from Taupe Dining<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Taupe Dining uses premium ingredients such as blue crabs from Cebu<\/strong>, clams from Manila<\/strong>, oysters from Aklan<\/strong>, tiger prawns from Roxas<\/strong>, and chocolates from South Cotabato<\/strong>, among others, to create their signature tasting menu, complete from appetizer to dessert.<\/p>\n

Other notable high-quality ingredients they uses to add rich flavors to their dishes are apahap<\/em>\u00a0 <\/strong>(Asian sea bass), featured in their Ceviche<\/strong>, as well as batwan<\/strong><\/em>, a type of local fruit used to add a sour flavor to dishes, in their 36-hour Kurobuta\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>(black pig)\u00a0cooked in sinigang <\/em>(sour stew)\u00a0style.<\/p>\n

The intimate 30-seat dining room exudes a simple yet sophisticated atmosphere, setting the stage for its signature Elements Tasting Menu<\/strong> (8 courses \u2013 \u20b16,500 \/ 10 courses \u2013 \u20b17,800).<\/p>\n

\"\"IMAGE from Taupe Dining\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Taupe Dining’s standout dishes include the playful Blue Crab Ice Cream Sandwich<\/strong> and the inventive A5 Wagyu Balbacua<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"\"Blue Crab Ice Cream Sandwich\/IMAGE from Taupe Dining\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Other highlights include Wet-Aged Hamachi<\/strong>, Dry-Aged Duck<\/strong>, and\u00a0 Chocolate & Pistachio Entremet<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"\"Wet-Aged Hamachi\/IMAGE from Taupe Dining\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

The experience concludes with Pinoy Petit Fours<\/strong>\u2014Chef Tolentino\u2019s imaginative re-creations of local sweets such as semifreddo<\/em> and bilobilo<\/em>\u2014ensuring that the artistry continues seamlessly through to the final bit<\/p>\n

To accommodate more guests at Taupe Dining, they have recently added new seating times every Friday and Saturday! First seating runs from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., while second seating is from 8:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Taupe in BGC is a fine dining concept that blends local and global ingredients to elevate the flavors of classic Filipino dishes into an art form.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":61495,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,12,14,7668,6643],"tags":[6536,6537,6206,6534,6533,6535],"class_list":["post-51074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-filipino","category-taguig","category-bonifacio-global-city","category-contemporary-dining","category-for-business-meetings","tag-chef-francis-tolentino","tag-filipino-fine-dining-restaurants","tag-fine-dining-restaurants-in-manila","tag-taupe","tag-taupe-dining-by-chef-francis-tolentino","tag-taupe-in-bgc"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51074","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=51074"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61491,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51074\/revisions\/61491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}