Art's cooking: February 2011

Yes, it's been a year since we started our Artscooking showroom/canteen. Wheew! How time really passed by.

It was January 7, 2010 when first opened the door to our colleagues and friends here in Jeddah. The original concept was only to feed a group of people of around 15-20 every Thursday as they claimed to have no time preparing for their lunch because of their busy schedule. And of course, to serve as a showroom for clients (outside of the group) who prefer to see in person our set-up and our food preparation.

Then, after a while, we added the Friday lunch schedule. And from the original group of 15, we started serving Eat-All-You-Can Buffet lunch for 50.

Contrary to what others think, our set-up is not the typical cash-cow canteen/resto like everybody else's (though generating enough to pay the bills). But still we decided to continue our so-called little "katuwaan" because we know we are serving a purpose, and we found out eventually that we are inspiring some of our kababayan (their so-called entrepreneural tsuvaness... wink wink!).

And we guess, with that inspiration factor alone, despite all the weekly challenges - such as sourcing the best ingredients (and cheap) and squeezing time with our individual jobs (we work too, you know), then everything becomes worthwhile.

Yes! We know in our hearts that we have proven success, but of course not enough to rest our laurels. And so, we are continuing with another year; full of hope and dreams for another successful journey in serving good food and the best of catering stints and gigs we can offer.

We hope to see you one of these days in our place. And while we fill our stomachs with our homegrown menu, let us share our own stories of success so we also fill our hearts with inspirations.

Cheers!

Our Eat-All-You-Can Buffet is open on Thursday & Friday

12-4PM. If you want to receive our weekly menu list via SMS, drop us an email or pm us with your mobile number at our facebook page at artscooking.

For our catering services, please call our number: 0509473258

or e-mail us at artscooking@yahoo.com

You can also download our menu with link provided at the right column.

Our Guests

We would like to apologize to some of our guests as we fail to take your pix. As the event progressed kasi, we could not even manage to take pictures; we've become busy attending to the needs of the guests. We hope you understand...wink! wink!