It took me some time to write about Flow, the restaurant led by the young chef Kevin Uy that opened in Makati last December. Not because the experience was forgettable, but because it lingered with me in ways I couldn’t immediately articulate. I left intrigued, even slightly unsettled, in the way art sometimes asks you to sit with it before it reveals what it means to you. I arrived expecting a familiar architecture to the meal, the kind of tasting-menu cadence my past dining experiences have unconsciously trained me to look for. Instead, Flow resisted those expectations. At first, the progression felt elusive, almost disjointed, as if the dishes were moving according to a current I wasn’t accustomed to. It was much later that I realized I had been searching for my own version of structure, while the restaurant was quietly inviting me into Uy’s reverent world. At Flow, cuisine..
