{"id":369944,"date":"2022-06-08T06:06:02","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T20:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=369944"},"modified":"2022-06-08T06:06:02","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T20:06:02","slug":"drift-bottle-cafe-opens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/drift-bottle-cafe-opens\/","title":{"rendered":"Drift Bottle Cafe opens"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_369945\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-369945\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-369945\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Drift-pix-11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-369945\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Drift Bottle Cafe serves desserts and pastries that are not overly sweet. (Mark Rabago)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Opening Drift Bottle Cafe in Garapan early this year was a dream come true for Tony.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is my longtime passion and interest to serve good food with quality ingredients and affordable prices,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Located across Imperial Pacific Resort, Drift Bottle Cafe serves different varieties of desserts, a mix of cultural dishes, hot and cold beverages, and donuts.<\/p>\n<p>As for the name of the cafe, Tony said as a child he was fond of stories about putting letters in a bottle and then throwing them into the sea. He romanticized that one day it\u2019ll reach someone in a beach somewhere at the other end of the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you\u2019re lucky your wish may come true. It\u2019s a story of hope and of love.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_369946\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-369946\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-369946\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Drift-pix-22-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-369946\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The new cafe is located across Imperial Pacific Resort in Garapan. (mark Rabago)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The name of the cafe also ties in with Tony\u2019s future plans of sending his off-island customers little mementos of their trip to Saipan. \u201c[My] plan is to take photos and develop them then send them to our customers. \u2026Send to our tourists from China, Japan, and Korea. \u2026It\u2019s a better keepsake than photos on your phone. I want to use something classic and old-style for my customers to cherish.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Among the desserts and pastries the cafe offers, the bestsellers so far are their donuts, which are packed with flavor and not overly sweet. They\u2019ve also become famous for their boba tea and handcrafted simple drinks made from only the freshest high-quality ingredients.<\/p>\n<p>As a promotion, Drift Bottle Cafe is giving away free donuts or rolls to all their dine-in customers.<\/p>\n<p>Drift Bottle Cafe, which has a capacity of up to 60 people, is open from 11am to 9pm daily except for Monday when they open from 5pm to 9pm.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, call Drift Bottle Cafe at (670) 287-2377 or (670) 287-8068.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opening Drift Bottle Cafe in Garapan early this year was a dream come true for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":369947,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-369944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}