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Have you guys been to the shop? If not, we open at 11. I think I might do a special today. Not sure what yet. Come down and see. 💚🌱 @Regrann from @yelpbayarea - ⭐ Hot and New Business ⭐⁠⁠
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In the mood for vegan Filipino food? @chef.reina recently opened her doors in the city of Brisbane, where you'll find vegan Filipino classics such as lumpia, sisig, adobo and much more! ⁠⁠
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Open for takeout and delivery, Monday-Saturday. ⁠⁠
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📍 33 Visitacion Ave Brisbane, CA 94005⁠⁠
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Get to know Chef Reina: ⁠⁠
⁠"Reina Montenegro was born and raised in Dumaguete City on the Philippine island of Negros, and moved to the Bay Area in 1997. Montenegro prides herself as being self-taught in the kitchen, and started her restaurant career as a personal chef and caterer in 2012 when she decided, after 10 years at a corporate job, to follow her passion for food and cooking.⁠⁠
Montenegro has created dishes for Mayors Jean Quan of Oakland, Tom Bates of Berkeley, and the late Ed Lee of San Francisco. ⁠⁠
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She also catered events for Apple, NASA, UBER, Twitter, Goldman Sachs, BlackRock Investments, and more.⁠⁠
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In 2016, her catering business eventually led to opening a restaurant, ‘Nick’s Kitchen’ in Daly⁠⁠
City. A year later she decided to change the concept to be aligned with her plant based diet and⁠⁠
cruelty free lifestyle; as the first Filipino Vegan restaurant in the Peninsula. Montenegro opened⁠⁠
3 popular Filipino vegan restaurants in the Bay Area; Nick’s Kitchen, ‘Nick’s On Grand’ (opened⁠⁠
2018 in South San Francisco), and ‘Nick’s On Mission’ (opened 2019 in San Francisco).⁠⁠
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Now she has pivoted her business into an online storefront and has come out from behind the⁠⁠
Nick’s brand, launching ‘Chef Reina’ in 2020," - @chef.reina team⁠⁠
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