inspiration

Over dinner a friend blurted out “I’m inspired!”– and with such candid joy that I couldn’t help but feel inspired myself.

I’ve long been out of the blogosphere (I’m not one to use that word without hesitation, but tonight makes even the most pop of pop culture inspiring), but what the hey, it’s time to bring back old habits.

Just visited Galileo Enoteca for the first time, the Italian hole in the wall (literally, it does have holes in its walls) a few blocks off Shaw Boulevard in Mandaluyong City. Famous for its fresh mozzarella cheese and set menus at P400, this place did a little more for me than bring my stomach to a happy place. The antipasto of cold cuts and cheese, plus the wine and the brick-walled interior gave me the most Madrid senti moment I’ve had in a while. I’m so giddy, I’m still smiling over the bottle of sweet red wine I brought home (I say it’s always good to stock up on wine you like, very handy come writer’s block).

How lovely to know what it takes to be inspired…and just as lovely, what it takes to inspire.

Galileo Enoteca is on Calbayog cor. Malinao Sts., Mandaluyong. From EDSA Shangri-la / Shaw, take EDSA Southbound, turn right at Libertad St. (you’ll see a Mercury drugstore), at the second street turn right at Calbayog. Call 534.4633 or 0917.349.4939 to make reservations.