Sinful Desires at Tinapayan Week 4: Keep calm and have more chocolate

There’s no way Tinapayan‘s sweetest collections would bring you down, as it comes with another choco blissful week. Indeed! Tinapayan’s Sinful Desires concoctions on this Chocolate Festival month would bring our taste buds into an intense mouth watering chocolate seduction.

And on its fourth week (Oct. 14-20), another chocolatey collection would definitely delight our appetite with the premium taste of chocolate twisted with different flavours! Here's what in store for all of us ...

Chocolate Turtle Bar

Chocolate French bread

White chocolate brownie bar

Coffee Latte Cake

So strip off all your inhibitions and spoil yourself in this first class treat from Tinapayan. Enjoy the lavish goodness of chocolate cakes and pastries. Excite your senses to a new indulgence… Sinfully Delicious, Irresistibly Desirable.

Visit Tinapayan at The Atrium, Delgado, Jaro, Molo, Villa and Mandurriao.

An American Adventure Buffet at Days Hotel Iloilo

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