If you still want to play with PHP, you should use PhalconPHP. The frameworks of old generation like Cake, Yii, Zend... are not good for performance. I like the creative concepts in Laravel but this framework is based on Symphony. If you have much experiences and time, take a look at HHVM, PHP7 and something awesome last year.
I've switched from PHP world to Node.js several years ago and no plan to comeback. In Node.js, the most popular framework is Express. Otherwise, you may like its next generation, Koa. For building Restful API, just take a look at Restify, Hapi and LoopBack. If you need a blog, use Ghost.