Barb Batiste

At a Glance - “What I enjoy most is recreating my mom’s recipes.” - “I’m more proud that it’s my mom’s recipes that I can share with everyone that comes in.” - “What I love still the most is just feeding people.” These lines outline a practice built on repetition, care, and sharing. Recreating her mom’s recipes is not framed as nostalgia but as maintenance: a way to keep family flavors active in the room where service happens. The pride lands on authorship by inheritance, with Barb Batiste placing emphasis on being able to pass those recipes on to anyone who comes in. Even the simplest statement — that what she loves still the most is just feeding people — reads as a working definition of hospitality.

Signature

Barb’s signature dishes include lumpia, original pork lumpia, plant-based lumpia, hot bread pudding, and chocolate chip banana bread. The list moves between savory and sweet, crisp and soft, familiar and comforting. Lumpia appears in several forms, including original pork lumpia and plant-based lumpia, showing how a staple can stay legible while shifting to meet different tables. The desserts sit in the same register of care: hot bread pudding and chocolate chip banana bread are both direct, home-minded bakes, shaped for comfort rather than display.

In Their Words “What I love still the most is just feeding people.” “What I enjoy most is recreating my mom’s recipes.”