Up close with a junior don
Let me tell you a learning experience I had last night:
Every now and then, Fe Zamora of the Inquirer and Gay Jarque, widow of the late Rene Jarque (a truly admirable officer), would get together for dinner. Last Friday,it was Fe who chose the place. She said Mikey’s Bar and Grill along Diosdado Macapagal Avenue.
Mikey is a common name and I didn’t attach it to one of Malaca?ang’s illegal occupants until I entered the restaurant and saw Mikey Arroyo holding court in one of the tables.
I was the first to arrive and was there alone for more than half an hour until Fe and Gay came.
I took the seat facing the sidewalk and I saw through the glass wall two military-looking guys. His PSG escorts probably.
Since I was already there,fashion handbags, I thought there was no use fretting over Fe’s choice of restaurant (she said later she wants to write about the place. click here for Fe’,replica hermes;s story.) and decided to make it a learning experience.
The restaurant is in the “Hobbies of Asia Mall”.We surmised many of the tenants there cater to “hobbies” or offer computer games or whatever. In Mikey’s Grill, it’s horseracing.
In between loud banter with friends, Mikey would shift TV channel to the live telecast of horseracing. It was so noisy.
Distracted by their noise, I glanced at their table and I saw Mikey being massaged. He was a picture of a junior godfather.
Mikey’s bar and grill’s menu is mostly Filipino dishes. They accept “paluto” (you buy seafoods in the nearby wet market and have it cooked by the restaurant of your choice in the area.) I ordered panga ng tuna (P250.00),replica wallets, Gay ordered salpicao and Fe got chopsuey. All in all, our bill was P1,030.00. Not cheap.
On our way out, Mikey was near the doorway acting the gracious restaurant owner. “Thank you for coming,” he said.
A staff in a coffee shop in the area, said some nights, a lot of self-important looking men enter Mikey’s . They ride in vehicles with No. 8 car plates.
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