Chef laudico biography

Chef Laudico’s fresh takes on Filipino food, sometimes fusion, often inventive and always out of the ordinary have garnered him accolades for several years.

He is a true kitchen fiend, having started at the “bottom” and working his way up the ladder through various restaurants over the decades. I had eaten at his Bistro Filipino in Fort Bonifacio a couple of times, and while I always appreciated his often refreshing take on things, I guess I just craved recipes that were more basic and pedestrian most of the time.

But that didn’t stop me from appreciating his talent, first at restaurants that I didn’t even know he had worked at like Primavera in Greenbelt many eons ago, to Carpaccio of the Werdenberg Group of Companies.

I enjoyed his food as a caterer in his early days back in Manila with his young wife at various private homes and I have worked with him in passing on a television