Baguio Beans

Trust the students of UP Baguio to discover a new hangout. Called Baguio Beans, the outdoor café on Gen. Luna Street, right on a corner of the empty parking lot of a white elephant building, Casa Generosa, gives off the ambience of a Boracay hangout. The colors of the walls are bright and loud, the tables are covered with tie-dyed cloth with prints of seashells and the like. What is lacking is the sound of waves rushing to shore. Plenty of other sounds: motor vehicles passing by.

The house brew costs P40 a cup, way below Starbucks rate. A list of sandwiches is scrawled in colored chalk on a small blackboard: pesto chicken, roast chicken, philly cheese steak, heart attack (crabmeat and tuna combined). They’re accompanied by salad greens or scalloped potatoes. All under P200.

The cafe is going through growing pains. There are no pastries or cake slices to accompany your hot beverage. The server assured me though these offerings are coming soon. Wifi should be installed within the month.Best of all, the place is open till 1 a.m.

Now if we can only be assured of safety with the presence of roving cops. My husband almost lost a box of takeout pizza to snatchers along the same street one early evening in the year just past.