AMIRA’S BUCO TART HAUS

Best for melt-in-your-mouth buco tart, cheese tart, egg pie, and the festive bibingka

THE SETTING. Amira’s Buco Tart Haus is a pastry shop inside D’ Banquet Restaurant in Tagaytay, a one-stop spot where locals go for bulalo, a popular warming beef shank soup, and for weekend buffets. On the way out, most diners stop by Amira’s to buy its famous buco tart, made of melt-inyour-mouth tender, young coconut meat, filled with a creamy filling of milk, butter, cornstarch and sugar, topped with a semisweet, buttery crumble crust.

From top to bottom: Make sure to grab a box of these Tagaytay delicacies from Amira’s: buco, blueberry cheese, ube, and mango cheese tarts

WHAT

TO BUY.

The signature buco tart is a bestseller, made using the same recipe since Amira opened in the ‘90s. You can buy the tart whole or in bite-sized pieces for your lunch box or snack. Other must-buys are the cheese tarts in such flavours as blueberry, mango and strawberry, the popular egg pies, and the local bibingka, a rice cake made of galapong or glutinous rice, desiccated coconut, muscovado sugar, and grated cheese, topped with red salted egg. Bibingka, associated with Christmas, is usually available to buy in shops during that time of the year. At Amira’s it is available year-round. One Town, One Product (OTOP) food products from across the country are available to buy at the shop. Proceeds from these products support small entrepreneurs.

GOOD TO KNOW. All of Amira’s pastries, from tart to pies and cakes are made by hand, using natural and good quality ingredients with no preservatives. The products are freshlymade everyday, as close to the time of delivery as possible. Amira’s was started by Virgie Malipo and named after her daughter Amira.

Amira’s Buco Tart Haus, Aguinaldo Highway corner SVD Road, Barangay Maitim 2nd East, Tagaytay City, tel +63 464 134109. It has branches in Twin Lakes Tagaytay, Silang, Cavite, and Coron, Palawan. Visit @Amiras.BucoTartPH on Facebook and Instagram