There’s a new pizza place in town and it’s out to satisfy your cravings – no matter how big it is. Welcome Calda Pizza – an import from Cebu and is now is Iloilo City to make every Ilonggo pizza dreams come true.
The pizza parlor opened last Friday despite the heavy downpour and was well attended by friends, relatives and media including members of the Iloilo Bloggers Inc.
The simple opening rites started with with Ex-PNP Chief Gen. Robert Lastimoso and the first lady of Iloilo Province - Cossette Defensor, leading the ribbon cutting. A short mass officiated by Father followed afterwhich the whole restaurant was blessed.
Guests were then treated to not one but four Extra Large pizzas as freebies as many other sides were made available during the opening feast – ordered from restaurants like Tuki and Griller’s Oyster House as informed by franchisee Rommel Lastimoso. He also mentioned that they are also considering customers importing orders from these restaurants so that customers can also have more variety.
Among the imported food stuff were onion rings, chicharon bulaklak, “mojo” potatoes, cheese sticks, fish fillet sticks, chicken skin, oysters cooked in 4 ways, shrimp tempura, bangus sisig and lengua with mushroom. A perfect preview of this healthy competition at the same time cooperation of these restaurants.
Calda Pizza offers an extensive pizza menu – almost 25 flavours in all. And they come in various sizes from the 11-inch Regular to the gigantic 36 inch Extra Super sized pizza. They also have 16-inch Family, a 22-inch Extra Large and 30-inch Super sizes in between.
They have this open kitchen where your orders can be seen being made from the dough being flattened to the order size to how the toppings are carefully placed in cadence. Then the whole restaurant smells like pizza when orders are in cooking in the oven.
Flavours include the familiar like Pepperoni. Margherita and Hawaiian to Italian sounding names like Calzone, Bolognese and Napoletana. They also have Filipinana, Etna, Succulenta and Vegetariani. The specialty of the house is Calda which has ham, salami, onions, bellpepper and ground beef together with mozzarella and tomato sauce. They Quattro Stagione is a four in one pizza consisting of Bolognese, Hawaiian, Etna and Calda.
Meaning “hot” pizza, it started in Lahug, Cebu City in January of 2008 and now has around 35 branches nationwide. Calda Pizza Iloilo is located at the 2nd level of the Vertex Building in located between Smallville and the Riverside Boardwalk complex. It is open from 9am until the wee hours of the morning given the it is located in one of the nightspots of Iloilo City. You can contact them through tel. number (033) 329-5731.
The pizza parlor opened last Friday despite the heavy downpour and was well attended by friends, relatives and media including members of the Iloilo Bloggers Inc.
The simple opening rites started with with Ex-PNP Chief Gen. Robert Lastimoso and the first lady of Iloilo Province - Cossette Defensor, leading the ribbon cutting. A short mass officiated by Father followed afterwhich the whole restaurant was blessed.
Guests were then treated to not one but four Extra Large pizzas as freebies as many other sides were made available during the opening feast – ordered from restaurants like Tuki and Griller’s Oyster House as informed by franchisee Rommel Lastimoso. He also mentioned that they are also considering customers importing orders from these restaurants so that customers can also have more variety.
Among the imported food stuff were onion rings, chicharon bulaklak, “mojo” potatoes, cheese sticks, fish fillet sticks, chicken skin, oysters cooked in 4 ways, shrimp tempura, bangus sisig and lengua with mushroom. A perfect preview of this healthy competition at the same time cooperation of these restaurants.
Calda Pizza offers an extensive pizza menu – almost 25 flavours in all. And they come in various sizes from the 11-inch Regular to the gigantic 36 inch Extra Super sized pizza. They also have 16-inch Family, a 22-inch Extra Large and 30-inch Super sizes in between.
They have this open kitchen where your orders can be seen being made from the dough being flattened to the order size to how the toppings are carefully placed in cadence. Then the whole restaurant smells like pizza when orders are in cooking in the oven.
Flavours include the familiar like Pepperoni. Margherita and Hawaiian to Italian sounding names like Calzone, Bolognese and Napoletana. They also have Filipinana, Etna, Succulenta and Vegetariani. The specialty of the house is Calda which has ham, salami, onions, bellpepper and ground beef together with mozzarella and tomato sauce. They Quattro Stagione is a four in one pizza consisting of Bolognese, Hawaiian, Etna and Calda.
Meaning “hot” pizza, it started in Lahug, Cebu City in January of 2008 and now has around 35 branches nationwide. Calda Pizza Iloilo is located at the 2nd level of the Vertex Building in located between Smallville and the Riverside Boardwalk complex. It is open from 9am until the wee hours of the morning given the it is located in one of the nightspots of Iloilo City. You can contact them through tel. number (033) 329-5731.
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