Why dread Valentine’s Day when you can look forward to “Galentine’s Day”? Upgrade your usual brunch dates to a full morning affair at the Rockwell Breakfast Club restaurants and order dishes that complement endless chika and laughter with your friends.

Wildflour Cafe + Bakery

Wildflour Café + Bakery, 8 Rockwell

Breakfast served at 5 a.m.

The first purveyor of cronuts in Manila also serves hearty and healthy breakfast dishes. Go all out with your girlfriends by ordering a mimosa or a Bellini to go with anything from their steak and eggs, salmon tartine or shakshouka.

Single Origin

Single Origin, Edades Tower and Garden Villas

Breakfast served at 7 a.m.

Single Origin is a one-stop shop for you and your girlfriends if you want coffee and comfort food for breakfast, beer with lunch, or wine and cocktails in the afternoon or evening. For breakfast, share their huge servings of Nutella banana pancakes, and salted caramel choco à la mode French toast.

Refinery

Refinery, Joya Lofts and Towers

Breakfast served at 7 a.m.

Refinery’s got all the bases covered: coffee, cocktails and breakfast food. The woodand-concrete space exudes coziness and ease and sets the right mood for a morning out while trying their grilled Jalapeño sausage and toast. Or, if one of your girlfriends is nursing a post-date hangover, The Morning After will help chase any headache (or heartache?) away.

Grace Park

Grace Park, One Rockwell

Breakfast served at 7 a.m.-11 a.m.

Celebrate Galentine’s Day in a rustic/industrial loft conducive to maximum chika with friends. The farm-to-table restaurant by Margarita Fores serves a fun mix of healthy yet sinfully delicious comfort food. Bond over bowls of exotic fare like naked Ilonggo chorizo, spicy rice Bago River eel, and fried adobong pitaw with butter-garlic brown rice.

If the weeks leading up to or after Valentine’s Day are tough, make your own silver lining by sharing coffee, cocktails and good food with your besties. Invite them to Rockwell Center for a breakfast party like no other. Carrie Bradshaw and friends would be proud! (Story/Photos by: ( Jannine Sy)