INTERCONTINENTAL Manila’s Chef Rolando Maca-tangay will indulge cool cravings with his selection of hotel-made ice creams for the entire month of April. Among his ice cream selections are freshly baked bibingka with macapuno, halo-halo in buko shell with ube and macapuno ice cream, and warm fresh fruit pizza with cheesecake cubes and two scoops of ice cream.

PANCAKE HOUSE beats the heat with its cool cravings such as the Pinoy favorite Jackfruit Parfait. It is a mixture of langka butter cream and vanilla ice cream topped with bits of cashew nuts and served with slices of langka. The adventurous eater can try the Ice Cream Waffle Foldover, a special variation of the waffle. It is a fold of a golden brown waffle tucked with peanut butter, two scoops of vanilla ice cream and dashed with chocolate chips.

KENNY ROGERS’ fires up palates with its Honey Bourbon baby back ribs. And to make your summer sizzle all the more, it is taking P50 off on their rib plates. This offer runs May 4. Grab the rib plate solo meals or the chicken and rib plates. Both include your choice of side dishes, rice and muffin.

JOLLIBEE presents the Chickenjoy Bucket Treats, featuring the limited edition 30th Anniversary Commemorative Chickenjoy Bucket. Its customers can enjoy their favorite food choices with their family with three meal options to choose from. Groups can share a six-piece Chickenjoy bucket meal; a six-piece Chickenjoy bucket meal with three servings of rice, three Rocky Road sundaes, and three regular softdrinks; a six-piece Chickenjoy bucket meal with three servings of rice, three spaghettis, three Rocky Road sundaes and three regular softdrinks.

COFFEE BEAN & TEA LEAF’ s Diane Martell and her team started experimenting with ways on how to concentrate coffee taste so it doesn’t get diluted when mixed with ice. Hence, the first Mocha ice blended drink came about in the 1980s. Today it comes in flavors like vanilla and chocolate as well as tea variants and is available at its branches nationwide.