Food Trip @ Halo Cafe
Barkadas have another choice for an eat-out gimik: Halo Café. It is named so because of the kind of food they serve – light and healthy. This cozy little place is located at the Cubao Expo in Araneta Center. Here, diners can enjoy vegan dishes like the veggie burger and veggie burger steak, veggie medley lettuce wraps, and eggplant & cheese wholewheat tortilla. Halo also offers pasta dishes, so if you’re adventurous enough, you may want to try the spaghetti with malunggay pesto. They do not serve red meat; only chicken and tuna. Their line up of beverages are must-try. There’s the bohol coffee, bohol tsokolate, wheatgrass cold tea and Halo’s house specialty the tarragon tea.
What I have tried (together with friends) so far in Halo’s menu are:
(a) Spaghetti with Tomatoes and Olives – this one I highly recommend. I like how the tomatoes and olives blended and created a slightly sour sauce which suited my taste bud very well.
(b) Spaghetti with malunggay pesto – this dish is for the brave and adventurous. Although the malunggay sauce may look like your regular pesto, there’s more than slight difference in the taste since it is impossible to totally remove the bitter taste of the malunggay. Hey, but this is really healthy! Remember that malunggay is a better source of vitamin C than citrus fruits. 
(c) Veggie Medley Lettuce Wraps – a little salty for my taste but still good. Look forward to discovering the taste of banana and ginger combined.
(d) Chicken Pastel – hmmm… this is different from the usual pastel dish because this one is not baked. It was okay. Still healthy, I guess, because it uses white meat (chicken skin not included).
(e) Wheat Grass Cold Tea – a drink that you MUST try when you eat at Halo. The wheat grass they use is freshly cut from the plant box they keep outside of the café.
(f) Eggplant & Cheese Wholewheat Tortilla – I think the wholewheat tortilla made the difference in this appetizer. And the eggplant? The eggplant always goes well with anything!
(g) Tuna Steak – one of the best-tasting in the menu. Loved the way it was cooked.
(h) Tarragon Tea – a highly recommended after meal beverage. Halo uses a mixture of fresh and dried tarragon leaves. You will enjoy its natural sweet flavor and fragrant aroma. I think it has a calming effect on the drinker because when I had a cup at Halo, I was able to sleep immediately when I got home. Maybe I should start growing tarragon in my backyard.
Here’s a peek at some of the food we tried:
(1) veggie medley lettuce wraps (2) vegetarian burger
(3) eggplant and cheese wholewheat tortilla (4) spaghetti with malunggay pesto
(5) wheatgrass cold tea (6) wheatglass plant box
Food prices range from fifty pesos to a little more than a hundred pesos. Really affordable. 
For a list of Halo Cafe’s offering, click here.
A few snapshots of Halo’s interior:
Hay naku lahat halos yan, natikman ko. malaman halos lahat ako nagvolunteer umorder. SARAP
Salve: kaya nga dami nating natikman, no, ate? sapilitan mo kayang sinulat kung ano dapat orderin nila! hehehe
Mare, akala ko kasali ang wheatgrass plant box sa mga pagkain:)
Salve: pwede rin, mare.
mura, ha
i’m planning on doing the healthy lifestyle na, e
naks
mapuntahan nga ito
kaso di ko ata kaya yun may malunggay
hehe
happy weekend, salve!
Salve: try mo raft3r, kahit hindi yung malunggay.
ako mas type ko yung lettuce na fresh e — pero gusto ko yung number three photo mo kasi miss ko na ang talong
Salve: Sarap nyang eggplant and cheese tortilla. buti nga na-picture-ran ko pa. Ubos agad pagka-serve.
tsarap naman!!!
Salve: hello, aga! thank you for visiting crumbs. try mo din ang food sa Halo. Siguradong me magugustuhan ka din dun.
bat wala yung tuna ko diyan! pero mukhang masarap ang mga veggies… chuz
Salve: pano ko kaya mapi-picture-ran yung una steak e pagaka-serve, pinagkaguluhan agad? buti nga me natira pa sayo. hehehe
Love the place! Su-wer!
As well as the ‘adventure’ we had trying to find the place. Hehehhehee
Salve: Yun nga yun e! Kaya pala sarado pa pagdating natin kasi 3pm talaga sila nag-oopen.
Tama ka, Avi — for the brave and the adventurous lang ang spaghetti with malunggay pesto. haha
Salve: brave ka na ring konti. hehehe. nakailang subo ka rin nung spag na may malunggay, di ba?
Nakaka gutom ah,, anu kaya ang lasa ng wheatgrass cold tea… at ang malunggay pesto gusto ko matikman…
Salve: masarap yung wheatgrass tea, gusto ko sya. yung malunggay pesto, basta matapang ka, kaya mo yun!
greetings from Cali!!!
This little cafe is really a unique resto somewhere in Cubao..unique kc sobrang kakaiba talaga ang type of food na inooffer. U guys must try it…for u to believe..i even celebrated my 2008 b-day in this cafe, suprise ng bf ko..o dba? cyempre with the help ng one and only super charming owner..HALMEN. sobrang romantic place ng second floor…Basta, guys try nyo…i love their malunggay pasta!
May landline/office number ba kau? pwede ba makuha? i am planning to organize a surprise party kc dyan sa place..please?
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