Glam dining at Morton's

WITH the Art Deco-style lettering in the sign and the impressive interiors, it’s easy to think one has somehow traveled back to a more glamorous time at Morton’s The Steakhouse in Bonifacio Global City (BGC).

- Joseph L. Garcia

It is absolutely helped by the menu, which relies on classic flavors.

For its first anniversary in the Philippines on Dec. 16, BusinessWorld sat down to a lunch in one of the private dining rooms at the steakhouse, brought here by The Bistro Group. A franchise from the US, the chain was founded in Chicago by Arnold J. Morton and Klaus Fritsch. Both of them had worked together at the Playboy Club in Montreal, so the pair knew a thing or two about glamor. The restaurant has since changed hands, and is now owned by Landry's.

Starters that day included a classic Jumbo Shrimp Cocktail and a Bacon Steak, paired with TenutaAmmiraglia Alie Rosé Toscana. The shrimp had an old-fashioned cocktail sauce and tasted quite clean to the palate. The wine it was paired with was nice and fruity, and accented the sweet flavors in the cocktail sauce. With the Bacon Steak, basically a huge fat slab of cured bacon, the wine tempered the saltiness and smokiness and made it milder.