The Wholesome Table's flagship restaurant in Bonifacio Global City in Taguig. Handout

<div><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/17206632589761720663255964.jpeg" style="width:900px" class="fr-fic fr-dib"/>The Wholesome Table&#x27;s flagship restaurant in Bonifacio Global City in Taguig. Handout</div>This Thursday, July 11, marks the 10th anniversary of The Wholesome Table, an organic restaurant by former model and TV host Bianca Araneta-Elizalde.To celebrate the milestone, they&#x27;ve come up with a special anniversary menu by executive chef Chrioni Castillo featuring both returning favorites and twists on some of their classics, such as Buddha Bowl, Duck Curry, and Slow-cooked Pork Belly. Discounts and freebies will also be made available throughout the month, such as 10% off on GrabFood orders from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. &quot;We just want to give people a reason to come back and celebrate with us,&quot; Araneta-Elizalde told ABS-CBN News. &quot;We have so many loyal customers that have been coming here since day 1. They&#x27;re still coming to Wholesome and I think it helps that the menu keeps evolving, so they can always come back.&quot; While The Wholesome Table has evolved over the years, Araneta-Elizalde said her vision for the brand stays the same -- to offer healthy food for everyone, not just to vegans and other people on strict diets. She proudly shared how her restaurant has been able to accommodate all kinds of diners, from kids and carnivores to those who avoid gluten and dairy. &quot;It&#x27;s a restaurant where everybody can come to the table. Everyone is welcome,&quot; Araneta-Elizalde stressed. &quot;There&#x27;s food for kids here. It&#x27;s a date night place. You can have your dairy-free stuff. It&#x27;s really a place for all.&quot;&quot;We have food that you&#x27;re familiar with -- burgers, pizzas, pastas, pork chops. How to make them healthier, that&#x27;s always our challenge,&quot; she continued. &quot;You get a good piece of pork, you cook with good oil, you use organic vegetables. And we have real ketchup, not ketchup from a bottle. We make everything from scratch and use very minimal ingredients. And that becomes a healthy burger.&quot; <div><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/1720663413274Wholesome-Table-food.jpg" style="width:900px" class="fr-fic fr-dib"/>(Left to right) The Wholesome Table&#x27;s Buddha Bowl, Duck Curry, and Slow-Cooked Pork Belly. Handout</div>Araneta-Elizalde sat down with ABS-CBN News to look back on her journey with The Wholesome Table, as well as tips on embracing a healthy lifestyle.Below are excerpts from the interview: <div>Q: First of all, congratulations on the 10th anniversary of The Wholesome Table. How does it feel to have reached such a milestone?</div>&quot;So proud of it. I&#x27;m just so proud of the brand, so thrilled that we&#x27;ve reached 10 years. To tell you honestly, it was not something we expected. There were times, especially during the pandemic, that I don&#x27;t know if we&#x27;re going to last, like how long we could hold on.&quot;To be here now and have this place, and we&#x27;re still growing, I&#x27;m so happy. I feel like Wholesome Table is still not done, like there&#x27;s still so much I want to do with this brand... It&#x27;s not complete yet, I have so many plans for it. And I&#x27;m glad that we&#x27;re at this point where we can now start getting back on track at achieving those goals.&quot;<div>Q: Speaking of the pandemic, it safe to say that it was the most difficult time for The Wholesome Table? What were your biggest challenges then<strong id="isPasted" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(65, 65, 65);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">, and how you were able to overcome them?  </div>&quot;Absolutely. I think what saved us is just being fluid. We had to be fluid because okay, today you&#x27;re allowed to open just 10 percent, then tomorrow it&#x27;s a full lockdown. It was so hard because every time you open, there&#x27;s so much money that you had to put out -- from stocks, inventory, staffing, logistics. I wouldn&#x27;t have been able to survive without my team. They were amazing during that time and I really needed them. &quot;It was a hard time definitely for the restaurant industry, not just to us. Because everything kept changing every week or two -- which could work for certain industries, but for restaurants it was hard. &quot;And then we realized, we didn&#x27;t need as much staff as we used to. We were able to operate with a much leaner team. The pandemic really challenged us and pushed us in how to be fluid and adaptable and malleable. Looking back, it&#x27;s like, wow I can&#x27;t believe we actually went through all that and we&#x27;re still here.&quot;<div><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/1720663503375Bianca-Araneta-Elizalde.jpg" style="width:500px" class="fr-fic fr-dib"/>The Wholesome Table owner Bianca Araneta-Elizalde. Handout</div><div>Q: How much or how little has The Wholesome Table changed in the last 10 years? </div>&quot;It&#x27;s changed a lot. The brand, what we stand for, that hasn&#x27;t changed -- I haven&#x27;t changed my tune, so to speak -- but the menu has definitely expanded. Now we have the bakery, that&#x27;s something we launched years into our opening. And now we have breakfast, that&#x27;s something we didn&#x27;t have on day 1. &quot;It continues to evolve, it&#x27;s really one of those brands that always has something new. It&#x27;s never been stagnant because I&#x27;m always here all the time -- it&#x27;s like a baby so I feel like it has a soul. We listen to our customers, we do this, we change this. It&#x27;s like a personal project of mine.&quot;Like when I started learning more about clean living... I started taking things out of our ingredients. A lot more people are more conscious of their health, so they went into certain diets -- which we accommodated.&quot;  <div>Q: As someone who has embraced clean living, what is your advice to someone who wishes to commit to a healthy lifestyle?</div>&quot;My advice would be to start with your food because that&#x27;s where it all begins. Take a deep look at the food you&#x27;re eating and the ingredients that you are incorporating into your diet. Sometimes tweaks there can make a big, big impact on your health and wellbeing. I would say diet is 80 percent of the journey, and 20 percent would be the exercise. &quot;And of course, I also believe that there is no such thing as a one-diet-fits-all. There&#x27;s also no one diet that fits you for the rest of your life. I think you have to listen to your body, look into it in a more holistic sort of way. If you really want to go further into this, look for a good functional medicine doctor that can guide you. It depends on how deep one wants to go, but you have to be intuitive when it comes to your body.&quot; <div>Q: How do you see The Wholesome Table in the next 10 years?</div>&quot;Hopefully by then, my concept will be more complete. I definitely see more branches, that is part of the plan. Maybe even offshoots of the brand as well, I&#x27;m definitely trying to cook up new concepts. &quot;By then, my farm should be done so I&#x27;ll be hopefully supplying most of the vegetables.&quot;

This Thursday, July 11, marks the 10th anniversary of The Wholesome Table, an organic restaurant by former model and TV host Bianca Araneta-Elizalde.

This Thursday, July 11, marks the 10th anniversary of The Wholesome Table, an organic restaurant by former model and TV host Bianca Araneta-Elizalde.

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Bianca Araneta-Elizalde's The Wholesome Table celebrates a decade of healthy eats

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Published Jul 11, 2024 10:06 AM PHT

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