I saw the Josephine’s restaurant and resorts featured on TV four to five months ago. I even suggested it to my family before to give it a try and dine in the Department of Tourism winner of “Kalakbay” Award for restaurant of the year.

Josephine’s is one of the longest running restaurants in the country today that started way back December 22, 1966 when its first restaurant opened to the public. From eight hectares of fishpond business in Kawit, Cavite, it was converted to a restaurant and in May 1967 when it first opened the resort. Josephine’s has branches in some parts of Metro Manila but the most famous one is in Tagaytay.

Two weeks ago before my brother in-law went back to Belgium, we were searching for a place where we could have our lunch and stay for our while before going to airport. Josephine’s came first to our mind since we still have a lot of time left before his flight so we thought why not tour him first in some of the historical place in Kawit and have lunch at Josephine’s.

Although it was my first time to see the place also and didn’t have the idea of specific dishes they are serving but we know they are serving Filipino cuisine. My wife already tried its Tagaytay branch and even suggested before to have lunch there again. We ordered Pancit bihon, fried tilapia, ginataang tilapia which later captured my Belgian brother in-law taste buds, chopsuey, grilled panga ng tuna and bulalo. Imagine these dishes for five adults and one kid only. But we never went wrong as foods here are really great. We almost consumed all of it, I think I need Colonix for all the foods I ate especially those fats from the bulalo. Imagine a Belgian foreigner who is a meat and steak eater eating ginataang tilapia. He will never forget this place and soon we will visit it again.