Cafe Antonio Online Store

Here is a freshly brewed news for all Cafe Antonio fans!

Cafe Antonio Dumaguete and Cafe Antonio Los Banos have recently launched the Cafe Antonio Online Store via Multiply. You may now be able to purchase Cafe Antonio merchandise (t-shirts, mugs, etc) that will truly make us part of your daily lives, even when you are not in the Cafe! :)

We are still ironing out the details as to ordering and stuff but surely it should all be ready by May 2009. So watch out for it!

For a preview of the designs, and so that you can already prepare your list of wants, log on to www.cafeantoniostore.multiply.com.

Cafe Antonio. Your coffee. Our passion.

Cafe Antonio Menu Board

Change indeed is the world's only constant. But of course, it has to be for the better.

Cafe Antonio is always committed to give you the best coffee experience without hurting your wallets! We have always looked into ways to serve your needs better. And one way of delivering a more accurate and efficient service to each one of you is to install the Cafe Antonio menu board.

Cafe Antonio menu board under construction

With the support that you have poured into Cafe Antonio and with our current manpower, we have thought that it would me more efficient to take your orders at the counter. Our friendly staff and baristas will be waiting for you at the counter as you order your favorite coffee, sandwich and meals. After your favorite drink is handcrafted by our baristas, we will call out your name followed by the name of the drink that you ordered. You will then get it from the serving counter - with all smiles! Short coffee orders will indeed be that fast and efficient!

But don't worry about your meals or if you come in groups because Cafe Antonio will still be flexible for you, serving your meals at your table.

We promise you that this change will be for the better! Because at Cafe Antonio, Your coffee is always our passion!

Cafe Antonio's FoM for February: White Strawberry Frothiccino

White Strawberry Frothiccino

Cafe Antonio's FoM for January: Choco-Banana Frothiccino

Cafe Antonio's FoM for December: S'mores Frothiccino

What is a "S'more"?

S'mores is a recipe where milk chocolate and toasted marshmallows are sandwiched between graham crackers. It supposedly obtained it's name because everyone who tasted one would always ask for "Some more", hence the shortened word: "S'more".

The Cafe Antonio baristas have converted this into an ice blended frothiccino made just for you. Imagine the luscious blend of chocolate, the crunch of graham crackers and fluffy marshmallows and tell us if you wouldn't be asking for some more!

December is definitely a month to celebrate and indulge. Celebrate the Holidays with Cafe Antonio's FoM just for December: the S'mores Frothiccino.

Spice up the Holidays at Cafe Antonio!

The "cold climate" has officially started! And we at
Cafe Antonio Coffee are brewing special blends
that would definitely warm up your Holiday Season.

Your Cafe Antonio baristas have concocted drinks that
would definitely add another "HIGH" to your normal caffeine
boost by adding spicy twists to the drinks that you already love.
Try the ALL-SPICE WHITE MOCHA or you can be Über
adventurous and get the SPICY MEXICAN MOCHA.

Grab a cup of these seasonal blends and spice up your
Holidays. Order a Cafe Antonio Christmas Blend!

WB students... to Cafe Antonio!

Cafe Antonio has recently gone back to how we are used to seeing it for most of the year: with students! Woohoo!

Semestral break is over and study time is here again. But then again, we know that for many of them, Cafe Antonio is already considered their second (or third or fourth..) home and of course, there is absolutely no other place like HOME!

Welcome back home, students!

Chinchin Gutierrez shoots Indie Film Scene at Cafe Antonio

The Lord has been very good to Cafe Antonio Dumaguete ever since it started. Blessings to the Cafe have been pouring in unbelievable torrents!

As an establishment in our kind of business, marketing comes from exposure. And as much as possible, exposure must be obtained at the least price possible. Of course, the aim for exposure should be the widest area possible!

Just in May of this year, MTV Pilipinas came by to make us part of their show with Caltex as one of the "must-visit" places in Dumaguete. Growing up in the MTV era, it was kinda exhilarating to be rubbing elbows with people who really work for MTV. It was the perky and pretty VJ Andi who came to chat with us.

A mere five months after, an independent film (of which the title we will still with hold) asked the Cafe Antonio management to be allowed to shoot at the Cafe! The film will star the beautiful multi-awarded actress and environmental preservation advocate Chinchin Gutierrez. She took some time to tinker with and play some classical tunes on the house piano while the film's beauty expert was doing her hair and make up. The film cast and crew had dinner at the Cafe before they shot their scene. Of course we took time for them to have their picture to be taken with us (hehe...)

In the picture on the left, Chinchin and the New Penshoppe ambassador for their underwear line Akihiro Sato and the director...i think, poses with the hunky Rayvin and Rochris (with whom Akihiro almost comes at par with in stature and hunkiness...ehem...hehe...watch out for the next Penshoppe underwear commercial, the three men at the right will be the ambassadors...*grins*).

We are not in the discretion to share so much about the movie except that we can say it was partly shot at the Cafe. The scene where Chinchin and her co-actress (a Dumaguete local lass) were, guess what? Of course, chatting about whatever they were experiencing over their warm mugs of coffee!

There was one thing that we just realized during that day: the two hours of entertainment that is provided in films that we watch are horrendously tedious to come up with. This is something that we fail to appreciate many more times than we do. No wonder the credits that roll at the end of the film is a mile long! Those people's names REALLY have to be credited!

It was quite an experience and one that we would gladly welcome again. To God be the Glory and more movies and shows in Cafe Antonio please!

Cafe Antonio Los Banos (Elbi) visits Dumaguete!

The Cafe Antonio Los Banos (Elbi) family visited Cafe Antonio Dumaguete last October 18-20. They were here to take their time off from work and visit their roots. They also celebrated with all Negrenses the Buglasan Festival. Balik ulet kayo dito! Or if time and money permits Cafe Antonio Dumaguete naman ang susulong sa Elbi! Kudos to Cafe Antonio Elbi for the first 6 months of successful operations!

Visit their Cafe Antonio Dumaguete escapade pics at:

http://cafeantonioelbi.multiply.com

Coffee Education? Not an EASY Job...

The Buglasan Festival, which happens every October in Dumaguete City is dubbed as the “Festival of Festivals”. The different cities and towns of Negros Oriental come together and participate by setting up their own showcases of their tourist attractions and some pasalubong items. Aside from the material things, there is also an almost 2-week long schedule of activities that are set up to suit practically everyone’s fancy.

Of course, the organizers give the different business entities a chance to set up shop at the site. Café Antonio opted to participate this year because we thought that it was a good opportunity to “strut our stuff” and show Negros Oriental how great our coffee is. After a couple of days of operation, we were already kind of feeling that coffee education is still indeed a challenge in Negros Oriental.

We realized that with this "type" of crowd, coffee would never be the beverage of choice for the homo sapiens. This crowd was indeed very much different from what we experienced last August at Silliman University during their Annual Founders Celebration, wherein ALL alcoholic beverages were supposedly banned.

So, Let's pack up and transfer our booth to St. Paul University! Let's celebrate with them on their Founders day and have a great cup of coffee (Hot/Iced/Blended)! See you there!