Date # 29: Wicked Kitchen

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  Wicked Kitchen is a restaurant that is run by the Center for Culinary Arts (CCA), although Wicked Kitchen has a far more casual ambiance and overall feel compared to CCA’s other restaurant chain, Cravings. Wicked Kitchen is famous for their Seven Sins Desserts, a series of desserts each adhering to a particular Deadly Sin theme.

  Dining in this place was sort of a spur-of-the-moment choice for us. We needed a place to crash because Douglas was being “forced” to eat dinner by his parents. They didn’t want him eating dinner too late (he gets home at around 9pm during Tuesdays). We weren’t exactly that hungry because we ate lunch a few hours earlier.

   What the Beef Salpicao (P187) lacked in quantity was compromised in terms of quality. Obviously, Salpicao is not a unique dish at all, but the execution in Wicked Kitchen made it very much worth the bucks. Douglas instantly lit up with excitement when he first caught its aroma. “This is what Salpicao is supposed to smell like,” he said.

   The beef was tender as jelly; it submitted to the slightest grinding of the teeth. The garlicky taste was very much present but not overpowering. The mushrooms were a nice touch. Douglas also noticed that there was a hint of some buttery taste. 

   The dish was considerably less oily than Salpicao from other places.

   I was fairly impressed with the Chicken Tenders (P195) primarily because of the extremely juicy texture of the meat under the crunchy coating. Each piece seemed to spurt a little bit of juice every time I chewed on them. The aioli dip and the coating of buffalo sauce also complemented each other well, the former providing a tangy zing while the latter providing a sweet and mildly spicy kick.

   We were blown away by our dessert, artistically named Sloth (P168). The moist chocolate cake is quite warm when served, and it oozes with rich dark chocolate syrup when pierced with a dessert spoon. It was chewy on the edges but very soft along the center. I preferred the softer part since it was easier to eat and it didn’t get stuck to my teeth.

  Eating the cake together with the vanilla ice cream gives the heaviness of the chocolate good balance, although I think the ice cream would have complemented the chocolate better if it were served colder—that way, you can feel an interplay of hot and cold at the same time.

    Either way, though, shit, I want more.

Overall Verdict: Wicked Kitchen is a good place if you’re looking for a quick bite, but it’s not exactly something you’d drive from another city for. For this quality, we find the prices okay. The best advice I can give when eating in this place is to savor everything because it takes more out of the quality rather than the quantity.

Wicked Kitchen

Petron, Katipunan

Quezon City

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With and For Love,

Rina Caparras and Douglas Chong

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