It looks like someone decided that 2026 had to start on a rebellious note, at least in a culinary sense. That someone is Your Local’s Chef Patrick Go, who took his flair for Asian flavors and married it with Rebel Bakehouse’s chef Diego de Rivera and pastry chef Donna Aldana’s skill at viennoiserie, inspired by their Baguio roots.

With ingredients from Baguio and the Cordilleras at the forefront, this collaboration served up a menu of dishes that not only enlivened your tastebuds, but would be living rent-free in your brain way after brunch was over.

But, alas, like most good things, even good eats never last. This one was on a strictly one-weekend run in January. So if you managed to find a seat at the table during brunch or dinner service, you’re one of the lucky ones!

In true Your Local style, Chef Pat kept the menu simple, but far from boring. Just a few interesting twists on familiar dishes, and even some of the YL classics — enough to make you pause and say, “Ooh, that was tasty!” Diners got to choose a starter, a main and a drink — so if you went with a friend, hope you had different picks and tasted them all.

What made this collaborative menu work was that the chefs were not trying to outdo each other. All the dishes were balanced, with flavors playing nicely with each other. Among the starters, the biggest hits were the Scallion pancake with pork chashu and a nam jim slaw; and the Yellowfin tuna marinated in Baguio strawberry coulis on cacao sourdough. Then the Danish got a Thai-inspired twist via the Local mushroom and roasted broccoli Krapow Danish, and went the part-Asian, part-European route with the Truffled beef lechon Suisse with fermented garlic jus.