Of Bread and Sausages

Second to the eldest of the Sistahuds, Ella Elline celebrated her birthday last September 12, 2007. Just like clock work, even if it’s already weeks after the birthday we still make it a point to see each other and celebrate.

For this year, Elline chose Mickey’s Delicatessen located at Jupiter, Bel-Air 2 Village in Makati City for our mini-reunion.


I’ve been to that place already (just last week in fact) just to buy sausages from their deli and bread from the Lartizan Bread Shop beside Mickey’s. One thing that I liked about the place is the abundance of choices for cheese, deli and bread. What else? The intoxicating smell of freshly-baked breads really got into my system. Wait, I can hear somebody snickering – yep, there’s also another reason that will remain a secret amongst the Sistahud.

It was walking distance from Elline’s workplace but I was the first one to arrive (excited ba masyado?), though we were shocked that Mary Ann walked to the venue from her area in Ayala Avenue. As per Mary Ann’s words: mas mabilis kaysa magcab. Whew!

We feasted over the various breads from Lartizan, assorted cold cuts with cheese platter, Caesar salad, a variety of grilled sausages, the Meat and Sausage Ciabatta Pizza and for dessert, we had the traditional Austrian dessert, Kaiserschmarrn. Our server can’t even pronounce the dessert but its shredded pancakes with apples and raisins. It was the perfect dessert to end a very hefty meal.

Michael Beck, the owner of the place was very friendly and even had a picture taken with us while he narrated his stories about his deli.

As we are leaving the place, the three of us wished that Chef Miguel was as game as the owner in having a picture taken with him. You’ll never know, maybe on our next visit, we’ll have another opportunity! Ha, ha, ha! Cheers to Rachelle!

It was a fun evening and another one for keeps.