Restaurants Packages for Dining Out during Philippines Hot Air Balloon Festival in Clark this year
2013 Clark Hot Air Balloon Festival in Pampanga Philippines special food and wine options
Visitors from Manila and other Asian counties travel to Pampanga in February to attend the 2013 Philippines Annual Hot Air Balloon Festival in Clark. Organizers and establishments based in Clark Philippines hope that this would help reduce the number of complaints received last year about poor quality of food and beverage as well as poor dining facilities.
These are the highly recommended options for visitors to 2013 Clark Hot Air Balloon Festival to consider. Most of them require guests to purchase tickets well in advance.
SPECIAL HOT AIR BALLOON LUNCH SERVICE AT CLARK WINE CENTER
To ensure that visitors enjoy proper meals during the event the Clark Wine Center offers a delightful Hot Air Balloon buffet in the alfresco grass field surrounding this famous wine shop of Pampanga. Situated conveniently near to the Hot Air Balloon site, visitors can now purchase tickets to take a lunch break and enjoy a fine meal before rejoining the hot air balloon festivities nearby.
Clark Wine Center offers a delightful Hot Air Balloon buffet in the alfresco grass field surrounding this famous wine shop of Pampanga. Situated conveniently near to the Hot Air Balloon site, visitors who purchased tickets to take a lunch break could then enjoy a fine meal before rejoining the hot air balloon festivities nearby.
Tickets to this special Hot Air Balloon Fiesta lunch at Clark Wine Center must be purchased in advance. Ticket price is Php550 for adults and Php250 for children. Only a small number of seats are available and once tickets are sold out, no more will be made available.
Watch Philippines Hot Air Balloon over breakfast at roof deck of Clark Wine Center
Popular place to watch the balloons is roof deck of Clark Wine Center and this year, this top rated wine shop will serve early dawn breakfast at its roof deck lawn garden to enable its guests to savor a sumptuous breakfast while waiting to snap pictures of hot air balloons ascending from their launch pads nearby.
Those who wish to relax over breakfast while waiting to snap a few memorable pictures of the colorful hot air balloon might want to get a table at the roof deck lawn garden of Clark Wine Center.
Breakfast is served at the Roof deck lawn garden of Clark Wine Center on February 23rd and 24th (Saturday and Sunday) at 5am. Hot air balloons are scheduled to take off at 5:30am and return at around 7am. This seems to be a comfortable and convenient way to observe and take pictures of the balloons taking off at dawn. Just how close the balloon will fly over the Clark Wine Center depends largely on prevailing wind directions. Last year, breakfast guests took many good pictures of the hot air balloons flying overhead not so far away.
Price is Php 650 per person (Php 350 for children aged 12 and below).
Alfresco Dinner at Clark Wine Center During Afternoon Hot Air Balloon Flights
Program for 18th Philippines Hot AIr Balloon Fiesta in Clark, Pampanga has added two afternoon flights of the colorful balloons on Friday 22nd February 2013 and Saturday 23rd February, 2013. Both flights are scheduled to take place between 5pm and 6:30pm just before the popular evening glow of the hot air balloon, a program that attracts photographers from Manila and Angeles City, Pampanga to attend the 2013 Hot Air Balloon Festival in Clark.
Visitors from Manila are particular happy with this yearโs addition of the two afternoon flights of the Hot Air Balloons because most people find it difficult to arrive on time from Clark for the early morning flights at 5:30am. Now visitors planning to attend the 2013 Hot Air Balloon Festival can catch the special Hot Air Balloon Shuttle service which leaves Manila at 7am, enjoy a full day of activities, have lunch and dinner at nearby Clark Wine Center and catch the afternoon flights of the hot air balloon before boarding the shuttle at 7:30pm going back to Manila.
Specially added to the program of the 18th Philippines Hot Air Balloon Fiesta in Clark this year is the afternoon flight of the colorful hot air balloons. The afternoon Hot Air Balloon flights will take place between 5pm to 6:30pm on Friday 22nd and Saturday 23rd February, 2013.
Famous wine shop, Clark Wine Center which offers a very popular Hot Air Balloon Breakfast at Dawn service for the early birds to observe the early morning flight of the colorful balloons passing above, has just announced that it will add to the fiesta programs, a special Hot Air Balloon Dinner for the 22nd and 23rd February.
Dinner will be served at the wine tasting room (second floor indoor) and the alfresco roof deck lawn of the Clark Wine Center. Open for dinner service at 5pm and lasting through 8pm, this special dinner not only enables guests to watch the balloons flying above while enjoying a nice meal in comfort, it also offers visitors tired from a long day of excitement at the Hot Air Balloon Fiesta in Clark a chance to enjoy a good meal before boarding the shuttle bus going back to Manila.
Ticket price is Php650 for adults and special childโs meal is available at Php250 for children aged 12 and under.
The Hot Air Balloon Night Glow is scheduled to take place at 5:30-6:45pm on Saturday 23rd February. Participants of the Yats wine tasting can start to enjoy the wine tasting before the start of the balloon activities.
Good Family Restaurant and Wholesome Bar to Drink and Enjoy a Classic English Gastropub Meal
To cap off a memorable day in Clark, many visitors make a reservation to wine and dine at the some of the good restaurants and pubs located inside Mimosa Leisure Estate. Here wine lovers can enjoy a delicately prepared wine-paired dinner. Even the healthy conscious and the vegetarians get to enjoy a sumptuous meal at this world-class restaurant. Those who prefer a more casual dining ambience can dine at the authentic English gastropub called The London Pub which is famous for serving the best English fish n chips in the Philippines. This is a family resto bar that smacks of a typical pub in England.
The London Pub is located in Mimosa Clark Philippines. This English styled bar serves up authentic British gastropub food, a good variety of English and other imported beers, an eclectic selection of wine by the glass and Cuban cigars. Many go there for the special vintage beers that are only available in this popular Bar and Pub in Clark Philippines. The London Pub is also well known among food lovers for serving the best English Fish n Chips in town.
Aside from being a nice bar, pub, resto bar and restaurant, the London Pub also accommodates parties and events for personal and company affairs. This Pampanga resto bar is a popular entertainment and party place for those looking for a convenient and practical event venue out of town but near Manila. Families regard this bar as a cozy restaurant where couples can enjoy nightlife in Pampanga away from the noisy bar scenes of Angeles City.
The London Pub in Clark Philippines
Mimosa Drive past Yats Restaurant, Mimosa Leisure Estate, Clark, Pampanga
(045) 499-1177 0922-870-5176 ask for Glennda
LondonPub@Yats-International.com
Wine and Dine at the Famous Fine Dining Yats Restaurant and Wine Lounge
Clark is not only famous for the Hot Air Balloon Festival, the international airport, golf courses and casinos, but this city near Manila is also well known for its fine dining restaurants. To cap off a memorable day in Clark, many visitors make a reservation to wine and dine at the famous fine dining Yats Restaurant and Wine Lounge located inside Mimosa Leisure Estate. Here wine lovers enjoy a delicately prepared wine-paired dinner. Even the healthy conscious and the vegetarians get to enjoy a sumptuous meal at this world-class restaurant.
Yats restaurant in Clark Philippines offers an award-winning restaurant wine list, top rated fine dining resto bar outside Manila. Each year, world leading wine and dining magazine called Wine Spectator gives out a special award to restaurants offering the best wine selections. The Best of Awards of Excellence is given out to 800 of the best restaurants worldwide. Here in the Philippines, Yats Restaurant and Wine Bar is the only one to receive this prestigious international award. This restaurant in Clark Pampanga is already well known as one of the best restaurants in the Philippines. With this award, this fine dining establishment puts Philippines, Clark Pampanga on the map of the international dining scene.
Yats Restaurant and Wine Bar
Mimosa Drive past Holiday Inn, Mimosa, Clark Freeport, Pampanga
(045) 599-5600 0922-870-5178 0917-520-4401 Errol or Lito or Gladys
http://www.YatsRestaurant.com
Restaurant@Yats-International.com
Wine Lovers should not pass up the opportunity to do a little shopping in Clark
Wine lovers all over Asia know of this place and make the trip to Clark Philippines to load up on rare vintage wines that are often cheap in comparison to prices in their home towns. Old vintage wines and lesser known labels hardly seen in Asia are wine connoisseursโ choice.
Clark Wine Center was built in 2003 by Hong Kong-based Yats International Leisure Philippines to become the largest wine shop in Philippines supplying Asiaโs wine lovers with fine vintage wines at attractive prices. Today, this wine shop in Clark Philippines offers over 2000 selections of fine wines from all major wine regions in the world. As a leading wine supplier in Philippines, Clark Wine Center offers an incomparable breadth of vintages, wines from back vintages spanning over 50 years.
Wine lovers in Manila, Subic, Angeles city and Clark Philippines travel frequently to this wine shop in Clark Freeport Zone Pampanga to stock up on fine wines. This Angeles Philippines Clark Freeport Zone wine store offers a fine range of wines of all price points from wines for everyday enjoyment under p1,000 per bottle, to exciting matured vintage wines at midrange price levels of p2,000 to p5,000 and rare and luxurious wines to mark special occasions or gifts of wine to VIPs, loved ones and special people.
Clark Wine Center in Clark Pampanga Angeles City Philippines
MA Roxas Ave corner A Bonifacio Ave,
Angeles City Clark Freeport, Pampanga, Philippines 2023
0922-870-5173 0917-826-8790 (632) 6331566 ask for Ana Fe
Wine@Yats-International.com
For inquiries, email HotAirBalloon@ClarkPhilippines.com
This is one event in 2013 that no one should miss but it is also one festival that you should not presume to enjoy without being smart about making advanced arrangements and bookings well before you arrive in Clark Philippines.
Have a nice trip to Clark!
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