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Posted on March 30, 2016 05:31:00 PM

Who’s up for some barbecue tonight?

  

IF YOU missed devouring bacon, steak, ham, and all the meats that you chose to forgo because of the Holy Week, tonight is the best time for a sweet indulgence.

ITALIAN pork kebabs from the Straight Up grill buffet at Seda BGC’s rooftop bar.

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Alone or with friends, go straight to Seda BGC, where, at the roof deck bar, is an unlimited food offering called Straight Up. Choose from the dinner buffet that includes meat choices like sausages, grilled chicken, banana wrapped with grilled bacon strips, and all sorts of barbecue, plus seafood like grilled prawns, salmon, and blue marlin. There are pastas and desserts, too.

Available on Thursdays to Saturdays, from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m., the buffet costs P900++. Besides the unlimited food servings, another bonus is the view of the metro skyline at night, cooled by a steady breeze.

Included in many lists as one of the best bars in the metro, Straight Up complements its good food with good music. On Wednesdays and Thursdays, bossa nova, jazz, and soul float through the al fresco venue. On Fridays, dance music from the 1970s to the ’90s play courtesy of guest DJs. A combination of lounge and retro music meanwhile fills the air on Saturday nights.

But if a late night out is not in the cards, there’s a pre-dinner pica-pica (bar chow) offering from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. called “aperi-grill,” from apericena, an Italian prelude to dinner. It follows the same idea of the unlimited grill nights, where one can choose from the grill buffet with an order of a mocktail or alcoholic drink. So who’s up for an unlimited barbecue night? -- Nickky Faustine P. de Guzman