Larry Cruz

Before entering the restaurant business, Cruz was a reporter for the Manila Times and the Philippine Herald. In the 1960s, he joined the staff of a Hong Kong-based magazine. In the early years of the administration of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, Cruz was a member of the presidential press office. Cruz, who was not a chef himself, established Café Adriatico in Malate, Manila in 1979. He later sold the magazine to Eugenio Lopez Jr. in order to finance his business expansion. ==References==