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Provenciano Restaurant in Quezon City: Excellent Regional Filipino Cuisine

Provenciano Restaurant in Quezon City: Excellent Regional Filipino Cuisine

What’s not to love about Filipino regional dishes? They celebration the Philippines’ diverse cultures and traditions as each dish burst with unique flavors and stories. Such are the cases of Bicol’s laing and Pampanga’s sisig! And if you’re eager to delve deeper into this flavorful adventure, head over to Provenciano Restaurant in Maginhawa, Quezon City. IMAGE from Provenciano Restaurant Opened in 2015, this family-owned restaurant is celebrated for capturing the essence of regional Filipino dishes in both flavor and execution. It’s a spot where tradition meets comfort with a rustic, yet elegant dining space that will remind of the a bygone era. Now, let’s talk about the food. Headed by […]

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Cazuela in Quezon City: A Taste of Spanish, Filipino, and South American Comfort Food

Cazuela in Quezon City: A Taste of Spanish, Filipino, and South American Comfort Food

This is where you get home-cooked Spanish comfort food after work.

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(CLOSED) Hiraya Bakery In Maginhawa Puts the Spotlight on Completely Filipino Fruits and Spices

(CLOSED) Hiraya Bakery In Maginhawa Puts the Spotlight on Completely Filipino Fruits and Spices

Hiraya Bakery aims to introduce the local flavors that do not entirely have a familiar ring to everyone, including Filipinos.

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Bakery and Sweets

Bakery and Sweets

(CLOSED) StrEAT Food Park in Quezon City: Up Your Food Crawl Game

(CLOSED) StrEAT Food Park in Quezon City: Up Your Food Crawl Game

StrEAT Food Park in Maginhawa paved the way for the popularity of food park business in the Philippines.

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Quezon City Restaurant 2019

Quezon City Restaurant 2019

(CLOSED) Cat Cafe Manila in Quezon City: Where Puspins Rule

(CLOSED) Cat Cafe Manila in Quezon City: Where Puspins Rule

Did you know you could adopt the cats here?

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Kid-Friendly Restaurants 2017

Kid-Friendly Restaurants 2017

Rainbow Dreams Cafe in Maginhawa: Where Colors and Unicorns Come Alive

Rainbow Dreams Cafe in Maginhawa: Where Colors and Unicorns Come Alive

Rainbow Dreams Café is a little wonderland on Maginhawa Street where unicorns come alive and food is splashed with colors and everything that glitters.

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Kid-Friendly Restaurants 2017

Kid-Friendly Restaurants 2017

Under the Sea in Maginhawa, QC: The first mermaid-themed Cafe in PH

Under the Sea in Maginhawa, QC: The first mermaid-themed Cafe in PH

Calling all mermaids or mermaid wanna be! Dive and make your swim while trying out their food and drinks.

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Snow Creme in Quezon City: Your After-Meal Sweet Cravings Satisfied

Snow Creme in Quezon City: Your After-Meal Sweet Cravings Satisfied

Sitting amid crowd-drawing restaurants in Teachers Village East, Snow Creme meekly waits for you to finish a surely heavy Maginhawa food trip to cater to your after-meal sweet cravings.

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Bakery and Sweets

Bakery and Sweets

Skunk #20 Cafe: A New Old Find in Maginhawa, QC

Skunk #20 Cafe: A New Old Find in Maginhawa, QC

Skunk #20 Café is a new old find that opened its gates on 20 Maginhawa Street just last July!

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Wagging Tails: Lovable Dogs Are Invading Maginhawa Soon!

Wagging Tails: Lovable Dogs Are Invading Maginhawa Soon!

Finally—a dog and dog lover's haven in Maginhawa!

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Kid-Friendly Restaurants 2017

Kid-Friendly Restaurants 2017

Soru Izakaya in Maginhawa: Exquisite Fusion of the Traditional and the Modern in Japanese Dining

Soru Izakaya in Maginhawa: Exquisite Fusion of the Traditional and the Modern in Japanese Dining

When people think of Soru, they think of colorful mayonnaise art, voluptuous Japanese murals, and a sensuous New Nippon experience.

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Il Pittore Cafe: A European-Inspired One-Stop Art and Food Haven

Il Pittore Cafe: A European-Inspired One-Stop Art and Food Haven

Il Pittore cafe is set to re-open in August, and we got a scoop for you!

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(CLOSED) Hapag Heritage Cuisine in Quezon City: Good Ol’ Days in Home, Sweet Home

(CLOSED) Hapag Heritage Cuisine in Quezon City: Good Ol’ Days in Home, Sweet Home

All that you will be reminded of in Hapag Heritage Cuisine is the tender care of your grandmother who used to cook for you when you were a child.

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Bakery and Sweets

Healthy/Organic

Bakery and Sweets

Healthy/Organic

Artesania MNL Cafe: Encouraging People to Make Art and Dine

Artesania MNL Cafe: Encouraging People to Make Art and Dine

Artesania MNL Cafe is a real haven for people who need to de-stress by making art and eating good food.

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There’s Eat and There’s Art at Artesania MNL Café in Maginhawa, Quezon City

There’s Eat and There’s Art at Artesania MNL Café in Maginhawa, Quezon City

If your passion is eating and doing artsy stuff then we’ve got a perfect spot for you.

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Griddle: Serving your favorite dishes with a twist

Griddle: Serving your favorite dishes with a twist

Located on Maginhawa Street in Quezon City is a restaurant that offers a different take on some of the Filipino and Western dishes we know and love. Griddle: Steak x Wings, which opened in 2015, aims to give its diners a unique and good dining experience without them spending a great heap of money.

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Modern Mediterranean: Skewr on Maginhawa St.

Modern Mediterranean: Skewr on Maginhawa St.

Mediterranean cuisine has been gaining steam as of late, yet only a few places in the country can give you Mediterranean food that tastes great, is close to where you live, and doesn’t break the bank. Skewr in Quezon City seeks to change that and then some. YOUR NEW MEDITERRANEAN FOOD STOP. Skewr takes the best of Mediterranean cuisine and puts their own twist on it. Skewr got its name from the word skewer: a long piece of metal or wood used to hold food together, usually on a grill. Mediterranean cuisine is known for its meats, and skewers are often used to grill these meats. Skewr takes […]

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Greek & Mediterranean

Laruan Atbp. Café

Laruan Atbp. Café

Parents have told their kids for ages not to play whenever they’re eating. This has been a standard for centuries, regardless if it’s your home dinner table or the local diner… that is, until you set foot inside Laruan Atbp. Café in Quezon City. THEY TAKE FOOD AND GAMES seriously at Laruan Atbp. One of the newer restaurants along the city’s famous food crawl destination Maginhawa St., Laruan Atbp. is nothing short of paradise for the young at heart. Board games, card games, comic books… oh, and of course, good food. GAMES AND COMICS GALORE! Where in the city can you find such a wonderful combination? For […]

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(CLOSED) Westwood in Quezon City: An American and Asian Fusion Restaurant

(CLOSED) Westwood in Quezon City: An American and Asian Fusion Restaurant

Westwood is owned by Russell Mae Canlapan, the brains behind Magpie Café at StrEAT Maginhawa Food Park.

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Bakery and Sweets

Bakery and Sweets

RBy’s Steak and Shake

RBy’s Steak and Shake

Ask any Filipino who’s eaten at Subway about Philly cheese steak, and they’ll point you towards their Steak and Cheese (it’s technically a hoagie, but more on that later). Authentic cheese steak shops in the Philippines are so rare, it’s no wonder Filipinos are almost oblivious to its existence. Enter RBy’s Steak and Shake, located at the famous Maginhawa Street in Quezon City. RBY’S. Philly Cheesesteaks are their game. RBy’s Steak and Shake is an honest-to-goodness Philly cheese steak shop in Quezon City. Owned by Bernadette Acuña and Rowena Vera, it started out as a 20-square-meter stall in Sikatuna Village last 2014. Two years on and they’ve moved […]

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Caution Hot! Spicy Noodle House

Caution Hot! Spicy Noodle House

Spicy yet flavorful is the name of the game at Caution Hot! Spicy Noodle House in Quezon City. RED IS A WARNING. (L) Caution Hot! from the outside. (R) The chalkboard-painted wall, decorated by the owner himself, Byron Ong. Caution Hot! is, according to owner Byron Ong, a hole-in-the-wall restaurant that serves “the other side of Chinese noodles”. If you’re used to the Chinese restaurants in Binondo, Manila, be warned: you will be in for an entirely different experience. CHINESE OR NOT? Don’t be fooled. You are inside a Chinese noodle house. The restaurant’s layout perfectly captures the Maginhawa experience. It exudes a modern, underground vibe that will have you […]

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Cat Café Manila in Maginhawa, QC

Cat Café Manila in Maginhawa, QC

This café is permanently closed. IT’S A CAT! It’s a cat! – Cat Café Manila all started when Anna Calvo took a cat from a shelter two years ago. From there, together with the experience of having visited a cat café in Japan, she began to be keen on opening a cat café of her own. In partnership with CARA (Compassion and Responsibility for Animals), the café gave around ten stray cats a home in the form of a café, each greeting a new customer with an affectionate purr. To keep everyone’s peace of mind, the cats were vaccinated from disease. If there is a favorite among the cats, it is […]

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Friuli Trattoria

Friuli Trattoria

If Maginhawa Street in Quezon City is something you’ve yet to be familiar with, it’s important to figure out where the crowd goes. Granted that you want to discover restaurant gems of your own when you’re just starting out, the vastness of the crowd is a good gauge of whether a restaurant has a good reputation or not. Friuli Tratorria happens to be one of those places that’s guaranteed to be packed on weekdays and especially weekends, and that’s for good reason. The trattoria is a checkered-tablecloth casual restaurant that serves Italian food in big portions with non-exorbitant price tags, which may be why college students and yuppies frequent it […]

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CRAZY KATSU in Teacher’s Village, Q.C.

CRAZY KATSU in Teacher’s Village, Q.C.

Crazy Katsu offers fresh fried chicken katsu that has a great amount of leeks and chili pepper. As the name of the restaurant suggests, Crazy Katsu’s chili sauce will make you go crazy over its katsu!

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