Amado Fores | Man at His Best 2024 | Esquire Philippines - video Dailymotion

Amado Fores is Esquire Philippines' Restaurateur of the Year  “Honestly, I didn’t feel pressured, but I wanted to carve my own way.”

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00:00Honestly, I didn't feel pressured,

00:03but I wanted to carve my own way.

00:05That's why Amano proudly is,

00:09I would say, was very different

00:11from the Italian restaurant she started.

00:13I really tried to make it as different as a concept.

00:16I thought of other paths, actually,

00:30rather than hospitality.

00:32But I think the pull of seeing happy faces

00:37from all the guests of my mom, of my uncles,

00:40and all their restaurants sort of really pulled me in

00:44and made me want to consider that path as well.

00:48All the things that I learned and heard from her

00:51just being in her periphery

00:53is quite obvious when in the restaurant.

00:54So as much as I want to say that I did my own way,

00:58really, I think her influence is still there.

01:00Our level of hospitality here,

01:03our unique Filipino hospitality,

01:05you can really see it even with Filipinos living abroad.