Getting harder to not succumb to MPFCP FOMOitis with all the pie pix, but for QPR and nutritional variety as my priority, I’ve been ordering Republique’s weekend dinners for takeaway and been quite satisfied with quality, quantity and service (tried duck and lamb dinners so far).
Edit: Above is a collage of the lamb dinner from a few weeks ago. Shanks were massive and I had lamb for days (6 to be exact).
A special touch I especially like is the breakfast pastry included with the dinners billed as “something extra“ from Republique’s bakery. With the lamb menu, they included date-walnut bars and they were heavenly.
It’s a gesture I really appreciate as it reminds me of the little goodie bags fine dining places used to give away after a tasting menu dinner in preCovid days.
Can anyone tell me what is in the buko pie? They are selling it at republique over the month of november. For all the ravings on FTC about this pie I could only find one picture and no description.
Is it better than the strawberry passionfruit pie?
Margarita Manzke, pastry chef at the new Filipino food stall Sari Sari Store at Grand Central Market in downtown L.A., and at Republique, the French restaurant she runs with her husband, chef Walter Manzke, is making the best coconut pie in the city. Only it’s not exactly coconut pie, it’s buko pie. The coconut custard pie popular in the Philippines is typically made with sweetened condensed milk and young coconut ( buko in Tagalog), and it’s just about the most luxurious thing you can eat on top of crust. Manzke’s version features a silky pastry cream mottled with slices of fresh, young coconut and a layer of coconut jam that together give the pie a real but subtle coconut flavor. And that crust? It’s laden with butter, the texture creating that perfect trifecta of flaky, crunchy and tender, allowing it to hold the pastry cream without getting soggy. Crowning the pie is a streusel-like topping that adds a little more sweetness and some extra crunch. The flavors and textures are so perfectly balanced that even your friend who swears he “hates coconut cream pie” will go in for another slice
Wow sounds legit, I don’t even really like coconut as a dessert flavor but this might be worth a try since I dont have to go all the way to Sari Sari store
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