Mermaid Café PH: Let’s dine under the sea!
(Mermaids and mermen wannabe at the Mermaid Café PH / Photo grabbed from Mermaid Café PH Facebook account)
LOCATED at the heart of the busy metropolis of Laguna, a pseudo under-water paradise waves for the young and the young at heart who dream of growing enchanting mermaid tails while being served with lusciously tasty food for the “land-dwelling beings.”
Biñan City prides itself with Mermaid Café PH, which will turn your mermaid dreams into reality--a place that will delight both your heart’s mystical sea creature fantasies and your tummy’s craving for scrumptious food.
Ideal for Instagram shots, every corner of Mermaid Café PH is endearing and adorable with its aquatic decorations. The ambience that this place offers will unleash your hidden mermaid voice and will make you sing the iconic song from Disney’s Little Mermaid, Under the Sea.
This café is a unique place for food lovers who are looking for new restos to try. It also offers free use of mermaid tail blankets while the friendly crew serves tastebud-goodies.
(Kids wearing mermaid tail blankets / Photo taken by Theresa Clare Tañas)
Ranging from 50 to 130 pesos, the budget-friendly meals will not make your wallet ache with its desserts, finger foods, pastas, rice bowls and different beverages.
You will certainly return for their 65-peso best-seller, Pork Tonkatsu. Its combined luscious secret ingredients on the tender meat of the pork will make you crave for more. To satisfy your cravings, the signature rice bowls of Mermaid Café PH will definitely tickle your taste buds--varying from chicken and pork to fish.
Mermaid Café PH’s Belgian Choco-Lake, topped with white chocolate wafer stick and a starfish-shaped gummy, will surely hype a chocolate lover’s heart. You can have a taste of this European Dark Chocolate drink for only 130 pesos.
This café in Laguna aims to be creative and defy the norms. Audrey Ann Lupena, one of the founders and CEO of Mermaid Café PH emphasized their goal to have an open-community that can start within the four-corners of the café.
“We want to build a community from the café ... a community where [you are accepted], you would not be judged, masaya [tayo], naiintindihan kayo ... lagi naming pinapa-feel sa [customers] na may community within the café,” she told the Dapitan Post, highlighting that everyone can be a mermaid regardless of their gender.
“I think that is our strong edge, we are very confident sa customer service namin,” she added.
(FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: Robert Roxas, Audrey with her husband, Carlos Martin Lupena, and Chelsea Kim Peña – the crews of Mermaid Café PH/ Photo taken by Theresa Clare Tañas)
Mermaid Café PH is not just all about the cute place and tasty food. It also has a heart for charity service and marine awareness.
Every time you will buy the Mermaid Café PH’s icy beverage, Siren’s kiss, 10 pesos will be allocated to their charity fund which will be used every December and June to share happiness among the street children in the city.
“May heart kami sa young children na namamalimos … highlights namin ay Christmas and Back-to-school,” the CEO shared.
She also eyed future activities that would raise awareness on the present condition of marine life: “Gusto namin kapag narinig ang Mermaid Café PH, iisipin nila: ‘Hindi lang yan food, may outside activity [rin].” THERESA CLARE K. TAÑAS
