The Choice: Year IV

For the love of food and restaurants, "The Choice" is back again this 2018!

The Choice 2017 Hall of Fame: Ramen Nagi

In the first six months of this year alone, over 500 new restaurants opened … and that’s only all over Metro Manila!

Every month, every week, and almost every day it seems, there’s a new restaurant opening its doors. There are a lot of great new dining choices, side by side with the perennials, the classics that we grew up with.

As food bloggers, writers, and members of the F&B industry, we’re always very curious about the crowd favorites. The popular vote, if you will.  What are the beloved favorites? Let the voice of the people be heard!

Vote for your CHOICE here: https://awesm.pl/TheChoice2018

About The Awards

Together, Our Awesome Planet, the country’s #1 food blog and one of the Top 50 travel blogs in the world;  the Blogger and Influencer Collective known as the KTG (Kain Tulog Gang); and the prestigious World Food Expo (WOFEX), have partnered to conduct the People’s Choice for their Favorite Food, Restaurants, Hotels, and Chefs …. or simply, “The Choice”.

The Choice Godfathers: Anton Diaz (of Our Awesome Planet), Randy Manaloto (of WOFEX) and Spanky Enriquez (Let's Eat Magazine EIC & one of KTG's founders)

We conducted an intense first round of voting among ourselves, and our resulting Finalist Lists have made us very pleased: we feel it’s a very diverse and fair representation of all our favorites from many diverse categories.

However, we’d like to emphasize that this is NOT a “Best of…” list. Taste, after all, is subjective. This is a vote for YOUR FAVORITES. 

You can vote right now: https://awesm.pl/TheChoice2018

The Choice 2018 voting is for two weeks only which started last July 15, Sunday and will end on July 30, Monday. Awarding Ceremonies will be at the SMX Mall of Asia on Saturday, August 4, 2018, from 2pm to 5pm. 

The Survey Parameters

1. For the Favorite New Restaurant category, our coverage period includes restaurants that opened between July 1, 2017, to June 30, 2018. 

2. There are 40 questions in this survey and answering this survey should take only around 10-15 minutes. It is best to give a definitive answer to each question and feel free to skip if you can’t decide.

3. All answers are treated as confidential and final once you click on the submit button.

4. One survey response for one person only.

5. Please give us your name and email address for our random validation of the survey responses.

Here’s the link to the survey:  https://awesm.pl/TheChoice2018

The Hall of Fame Awardees

Consecutive Winners in their respective categories in 2015, 2016, and 2017, the following establishments have now been elevated to The Choice Hall of Fame, and thus, will not be eligible for further awards this year and in the years ahead. Congratulations to the Hall of Famers!!! 

Food Favorites

Fast Food Burger: Burger King

Gourmet Burger : 8 Cuts

Fried Chicken : KFC

Sisig : Gerry’s Gril

BBQ : Aristocrat

Hotdog/Sausage : S&R

Ramen : Ramen Nagi

Donut : Krispy Kreme

Ensaymada : Mary Grace

Frozen Dessert : Dairy Queen

Pastries/Cakes: Conti’s

Coffee :  Starbucks

Restaurant Favorites

Chinese: Gloria Maris

Thai : People’s Palace

Korean : Bulgogi Brothers

Mexican : El Chupacabra

Fine Dining : Antonio’s

24/7 Dining : North Park

Family Dining : Chili’s

Hotel Buffet: Spiral

Fast Food : Jollibee