Dine alfresco on Makati's roads with Makati Street Meet, a project by Ayala Land, Make It Makati and MACEA!
The closing of Legaspi and Salcedo village streets drew crowds, craving for al fresco dining experiences. Feasting on some of Makati’s best eats in the middle of the street? Sign us up! “Given the overwhelming response of the public [to Makati Street Meet] and as requested by many of the participating merchants, we decided to make it a recurring initiative and expand to more than just one location,” says Chrissy Roa, head of marketing and communications for Ayala Land Estates.
Ayala Land, Make It Makati, and MACEA collaborated to create the Legaspi Street Meet and expanded to Salcedo village too, making residents extremely happy. You can find Makati Street Meet at both Rada St. and Leviste St. bi-monthly.
In fact, did you know that this initiative originally began in 2017? However, with the new normal people have been eagerly seeking for open-air restaurant dining locations so Ayala and Makati thought why not re-invigorate the event to give it new purpose and to help revive the restaurant industry.
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“Through MACEA, we requested for a meeting with the owners and managers of the restaurants along Rada street,” shares Chrissy as she explains how they made this dining event come to life in 2021. To her, Rada is the perfect street to test the concept because of the amount of sought after restaurants and limited traffic flow. She continues: “During the meeting with the merchants, we discovered that we were all on the same page—they all wanted to re-invigorate the city without compromising people’s health and safety.”
Makati is Ayala Land’s flagship estate, which Chrissy tells me is meant to be much more than just a business district. She says it is a multi-faceted estate that offers a variety of experiences wherein F&B plays a major role. “The F&B scene in Makati was very much alive before the pandemic hit and the various culinary offerings in the central business district bring colour and flavour to [our] city. By promoting al fresco dining, we are bringing back that dynamism,” Chrissy elaborates.
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