{"id":61503,"date":"2025-08-28T09:36:26","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T01:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/?p=61503"},"modified":"2025-10-09T14:34:46","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T06:34:46","slug":"samira-by-chele-gonzalez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/cuisines\/samira-by-chele-gonzalez\/","title":{"rendered":"Samira by Chele Gonzalez in Cavite: A Refined Resort Dining Escape"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the mind of Chef Chele Gonzalez<\/strong>, the man behind Gallery by Chele<\/em>, comes Samira<\/strong>\u2014a restaurant in Anya Resort Tagaytay <\/strong>that offers tasting menus rooted in Spanish cuisine.<\/p>\n

\"\"IMAGE from Samira by Chele Gonzalez<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Established in March 2022,\u00a0 Chef Jose Luis \u201cChele\u201d Gonz\u00e1lez crafted Samira\u2019s culinary identity, merging elite Spanish techniques with local ingredients and experiential dining with its conceptual development in 2019 that was paused during the pandemic.<\/p>\n

\"\"IMAGE from Samira by Chele Gonzalez<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Samira by Chele Gonzalez offers three core dining experiences:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Cocido Experience\u201d<\/strong><\/em>, a four-course reinterpretation centered on Spanish stew such as croquetas<\/em> and paella. <\/em><\/p>\n

They also offer six-course tasting menu<\/strong>,\u00a0where diners encounter dishes like ceviche, grilled octopus, and their deconstructed Tagaytay\u2011style buko<\/em> pie<\/em>\u2014their playful take on buko pie<\/em>.<\/p>\n

For those who prefer to dine \u00e0 la carte, they have a robust \u00e0 la carte menu<\/strong> with tempting selection of\u00a0 grill-forward dishes, tapas, seafood, and comfort mains that fuse Spanish techniques with local flavors.<\/p>\n

One of their signature \u00e0 la carte dishes is Gambas al Ajillo (\u20b11,440) <\/strong>that includes\u00a0grilled shrimp with garlic, chili, extra virgin olive oil, and parsley.<\/p>\n

\"\"Gambas al Ajillo\/<\/span>IMAGE from Samira by Chele Gonzalez<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

On the other hand their Oven-Glazed Beef Cheeks (\u20b11,240)\u00a0<\/strong>features beef cheeks on top of a creamy wild mushroom wet rice.<\/p>\n

\"\"Oven-Glazed Beef Cheeks\/IMAGE from Samira by Chele Gonzalez<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Their Pan-Seared Citrus Salmon (Php 990),\u00a0<\/strong>is salmon served with mayonnaise and cauliflower puree.<\/p>\n

\"\"Pan-Seared Citrus Salmon\/IMAGE from Samira by Chele Gonzalez<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Other standout highlights are Grilled Ib\u00e9rico Pork Satay Skewer (Php 690) <\/strong>and Buko Pie in Textures (Php 290), <\/strong>Samira’s re-imagined take on Tagaytay’s buko pie<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"\"Buko Pie in Textures\/IMAGE from Samira by Chele Gonzalez<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

At Samira by Chele Gonzalez, every dish is more than a meal\u2014it\u2019s a dialogue between Spain and the Philippines’s tradition and innovation, comfort and discovery.<\/p>\n

Whether you come for the tasting menus or the \u00e0 la carte specialties, this restaurant promises a resort dining experience that lingers long after the last bite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the mind of Chef Chele Gonzalez, the man behind Gallery by Chele, comes Samira\u2014a restaurant in Anya Resort Tagaytay that offers tasting menus rooted in Spanish cuisine. IMAGE from Samira by Chele Gonzalez Established in March 2022,\u00a0 Chef Jose Luis \u201cChele\u201d Gonz\u00e1lez crafted Samira\u2019s culinary identity, merging elite Spanish techniques with local ingredients and experiential dining with its conceptual development in 2019 that was paused during the pandemic. IMAGE from Samira by Chele Gonzalez Samira by Chele Gonzalez offers three core dining experiences: \u201cThe Cocido Experience\u201d, a four-course reinterpretation centered on Spanish stew such as croquetas and paella. They also offer six-course tasting menu,\u00a0where diners encounter dishes like ceviche, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":61525,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,29,2,54,42,7668,2912,4851],"tags":[6807,2850,7563,4826,384],"class_list":["post-61503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-filipino","category-spanish","category-cuisines","category-cavite","category-bar-and-resto","category-contemporary-dining","category-restaurant-type","category-tagaytay-cavite","tag-chef-chele-gonzales","tag-filipino-spanish-cuisine","tag-resort-dining","tag-restaurants-in-tagaytay","tag-spanish-cuisine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61503","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=61503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61526,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61503\/revisions\/61526"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}