Caffé Sant'Antonio serves wood-fired pizza and coffee

Caffé Sant'Antonio located along the Aguinaldo Highway is one of the few places in the Tagaytay - Cavite area that serves Italian style pizza freshly cooked in a wood-fired oven (see picture below). 

The wood-fired oven at the pizzeria uses any kind of available dry wood.

The pizzeria is themed after the movie "The Roman Holiday" starring Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck.

The pizzeria is attached to the main coffee shop that serves desserts, tea, and coffee. The cafe opens at 8 am and the pizzeria at 10:30 am. They are closed on Mondays. All orders including pizza and pasta are taken at this counter.

We enjoyed the pizza, pasta, sandwich, desserts and coffee that we ordered, including the slow cooked wood-fired oven roasted chicken that we got for takeout. We would be interested to visit this place again.

The coffee shop and pizzeria are attached to the Rogate Store that sells Catholic images, books, gifts, and church supplies. The compound is located beside Rogationist College.

Caffé Sant'Antonio is not too far from the Tagaytay Rotonda, around 4 kilometers and comes immediately after Gourmet Farms. 

For this orphanage, Ivory soap is a big help

For this orphanage, Ivory soap is a big help

If you are looking for a beneficiary of your kindness this Christmas season and beyond, you may wish to consider the Heart of Mary Villa (HOMV) managed by Good Shepherd nuns in the Philippines and established in 1957.

HOMV is not only an orphanage. It is also a halfway house for unwed mothers. Their Mission Statement reads, “Heart of Mary Villa offers compassionate and dynamic care to women pregnant outside of marriage and to surrendered and abandoned children waiting for their families.”

According to HOMV’s Directress Sister Lorenza Sangalang, there is a shortfall of donations compared with the actual operational expenses that they incur regularly. Following is HOMV’s wish list for donations in kind:

1) Milk – Bonamil, Bonakid (1-3 yrs old) 

2) Diaper – EQ brand, size M, L, XL

3) Ivory soap

4) Baby shampoo

The above items can easily be mailed via LBC or balikbayan box. Please send the items to Sister Lorenza Sangalang, HOMV Directress at the following address:

1043 Aurora Boulevard
1108 Quezon City

For those interested to send cash donations, you may deposit to the following account:

Heart of Mary Villa
BPI Xavierville Branch
Peso Savings Account No. 4441-0095-13

For more details, you can email heartofmaryvilla@yahoo.com or visit their website at www.heartofmaryvilla.org