'If everything closes up, you open,' said one of the owners of the Filipino eatery.
Since August 2020, three nurses at Mt. Sinai Hospital on Manhattan’s Upper East Side have also had a second demanding job — running their own Filipino restaurant. Joan Calanog, Jude Canela and Maricris Dinopol opened the restaurant, Bilao, while working 12-hour overnight shifts caring for COVID-19 patients.
Rather than be deterred by the timing of their opening during a crisis for the city, the owners saw an opportunity. The name of the restaurant, Bilao, is a woven tray traditionally used to clean and dry rice in the Philippines. The trays adorn walls in the space, which was previously a bakery. Interest was high almost from the beginning, with new customers arriving through networking and word of mouth, and the partners struggled with the demands of two full-time jobs, often working around 60 hours a week. Canela said he would meditate in the back of a cab on his way to the restaurant.
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