Memento It’s Tuesday, early evening, and I am seated all alone at one end of the bar at Memento, arguably the oldest bar along Bautista Street in Makati.
It’s Tuesday, early evening, and I am seated all alone at one end of the bar at Memento, arguably the oldest bar along Bautista Street in Makati.
But the drinkers that fueled this bar for decades since the 90s have gotten old. No longer young twentysomethings, perhaps they are more prone to nap away the night in their homes or have quiet sober dinners in more gentrified spots elsewhere in Makati. Or perhaps they are in the karaoke-girlie bars I mentioned that populate this Palanan district.I feel somewhat comforted that Memento/Porch is holding on.
The bar is certainly a little worn and threadbare in places but no one really cares, like many of us who do not mind our eyeglasses, white hair and wrinkles. Another common denominator of old bars and people of a certain age, who like to wear their weathering beautifully, both saying it took us decades to get to get to this point, we are proud of our scars and dents, our aches and pains.
It makes me yearn for something that is no longer attainable, those years of my youth filled with unfettered highs fueled by booze in bars like this, when I was still very hopeful about this country and the human race. But I digress.It opened in October 2022, just shortly after lockdown restrictions were eased, taking over the spot of one those karaoke bars that did not survive the pandemic.
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