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Take a delectable quick peek into the newest and hottest restaurants in the Philippines! It’s all about epicurean enjoyment here!

Bunny Baker Café and Cake Studio

Bunny Baker Café and Cake Studio

As December approaches and the weather starts to become chilly, comes the perfect time for a ‘snuggle’ like what we do with the soft furry head of a bunny, whether a pet or a stuffed toy. This warm, cute, and comforting feeling is what inspired the theme for the Bunny Baker Café and Cake Studio at One Hemady Square. THE LOVEBUNNY. The cupcake that started it all. The cutesy café started with the idea of Aila Yonzon, a Bunny Boss in the making, when she first whipped up the Lovebunny cupcake. From there stemmed the creative picture of a café enamored with the words “cute”, “rabbit” and “good food”. A […]

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Bakery and Sweets

Bakery and Sweets

Coco Bango Café

Coco Bango Café

Located inside White Knight, a boutique hotel located in Intramuros, is Coco Bango Café—a personal favorite of the locals that has garnered regular patrons. The café serves no-nonsense comfort food ranging from Filipino to Italian, Japanese, Chinese, European, and Spanish cuisine. It may be too many of a choice for a restaurant but Coco Bango is able to deliver high quality dishes. A favorite amongst its patrons is the classic Beef ala Bulalo, a guilty pleasure dish perfect for the cold and rainy days, the fat from the Bulalo is considered the best part so don’t leave it out. Beef ala Bulalo (P305) Those looking for the crispier side […]

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Intramuros 2018

Intramuros 2018

Cioccolata Churros Café

Cioccolata Churros Café

Get a sweet dose of churros and chocolate goodness at Cioccolata Churros Café located at the ground floor of the Bayleaf Hotel in Intramuros, Manila. Expect nothing but great and delicious fresh-from-the-fryer churros made by the hotel’s pastry chef together with the LPU Culinary Institute’s pastry students. Churros is best paired with a cup of warm coffee or a chilling frappuccino drink. Churros with hot Spanish chocolate dip (P75) and coffee caramel dip (P90) paired with Irish Cream Mocha drink (P120) Get your chocolate fix in Cioccolata and if you happen to be craving for more food then you can visit Rafaelle that is just two […]

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Classic Confections: Chef Baba’s Sweet Menu for the Sweet Tooth

Classic Confections: Chef Baba’s Sweet Menu for the Sweet Tooth

Nono's by Classic Confections offers a wide array of cakes and sweets, among which are the award-winning Nono's Chocolate Oblivion and Sylvia's Strawberry Shortcake, which are both named after Chef Baba's parents. Chef Baba Ibazeta Benedicto is at the helm of these confections, which are perfect for all occasions. Even though Classic Confections at Greenbelt 5 has permanently closed, there is nothing to worry about as Classic Confections menu is still served inside Nono's: Comfort Food Done Right located at UP Town Center in Quezon City, The Podium in Mandaluyong, and Three Central in Makati.

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Bakery and Sweets

Bakery and Sweets

Local Edition in Legaspi Village: A Neighborhood Coffee Shop and Creativity Hub

Local Edition in Legaspi Village: A Neighborhood Coffee Shop and Creativity Hub

A neighborhood cafe where locals can gather, be inspired and create, brewing along the relaxed and refined street of Perea in Legazpi Village is Local Edition, a café that serves one of the best, grilled cheese in town. Its façade is charmingly catchy and visible therefore there is very little chance for seekers to miss it.

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Legazpi Village

Legaspi Village Restaurant 2019

Legaspi Village Restaurant 2019

Vibe Cafe

Vibe Cafe

A Chill-Out Café that Nourishes Both Body & Mind Directly adjacent to LIFE Yoga Center is a café that aims to nourish more than just your body. VIBE Café is technically part of the yoga studio, but its eclectic mix of tea, coffee and healthy offerings provide much-needed nourishment both to the yogis and mall-goers alike. A chilled out coffee spot right in the middle of Burgos Circle Located at the second floor of the Forbes Town Mall, beside LiFE Yoga Center, Vibe is also the brainchild of the same people behind LiFE. According to Noelle Rodriguez, the young president behind the undertaking, VIBE was the product of their desire […]

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Bonifacio Global City

Healthy/Organic

Healthy/Organic

Laid Back Café G at Taal

Laid Back Café G at Taal

Café G is homey café at the heritage town of Taal in Batangas where one can peacefully revel with a cup of coffee. It’s also an ideal resting place for those who just finished the Taal Heritage Tour and are looking for a place of refuge. If you find yourself exploring the beauty of Taal then spend your time at Café G—a cozy café serving entrees to light meals ranging from pies, snack platters, sandwiches, pasta, and a good selection of refreshing drinks—totally a place to be after a tiring day exploring Taal. Café G’s interiors is welcoming making guests feel at home the moment they step-in. Its ambiance is […]

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Tampuhan Café at Taal

Tampuhan Café at Taal

Exploring the historical beauty of Taal in Batangas can be surely worthwhile and enlightening, albeit inevitable that one’s legs will be exhausted, but the good news is, Taal also offers Tampuhan Café, a cozy bed and breakfast café. The café has beautiful interiors making use of different things, the menu consists of simple and iconic dishes such as tapsilog. Vincent Tagalog (P105). Special longanisa paired with sunny side up egg and salad. The café also has chilled drinks to refresh thirsty throats after basking under the scorching heat. Ice Café Mocha (P75). A thirst-quenching drink after a hot and sunny day of exploring Taal. The café’s tables are mode […]

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Café De Lipa: Best Kapeng Barako in Town

Café De Lipa: Best Kapeng Barako in Town

Enjoy your coffee experience with a sip of kapeng barako in Café de Lipa located at Lipa, Batangas, where the roots of the first Philippine coffee can be traced. Upon entering you’ll be welcomed by their friendly and excellent staff to Café de Lipa’s lad-back ambiance. There’s a myriad to choose from the menu, but if you’re having a hard time deciding, fret not, the friendly baristas will be more than happy to help you. You’ll always be greeted with a smile by Café de Lipa’s staff The baristas will most likely recommend you Café De Lipa’s best-seller, the Baraco Blend which can be prepared using a French press. Baraco […]

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M Café (CLOSED)

M Café (CLOSED)

UPDATED: This restaurant is CLOSED as of December 31, 2018 M Café or Museum Café is another Raintree Restaurants’ concept, serving modern Asian cuisine in a pleasurable and relaxing setting. It offers exquisite food, striking mixed cocktails, great location, and a soothing cool vibe. The M Café at the Ayala Museum is centrally located at the corner of Makati Avenue and Dela Rosa Street. M Café is an airy, pleasant, chic cafe located at a museum that showcases Filipino ingenuity and more making it ideal for stimulating and relaxing conversations over some superb food. Dining halls are wide and spacious both in the first and second floors (Seated: Bistro A&M: […]

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Caffe Pascucci

Caffe Pascucci

Caffe Pascucci is a global chain of authentic Italian Coffee. What makes Café Pascucci unique and distinct from other coffee shops around is the special blend of their coffee that focuses on their special roast–a perfect component for a dessert coffee that bears the Italian roast flavor. It has branches in the posh New Glorietta Mall, Ayala Makati City and in Robinson’s Galleria Ortigas Center, Pasig City. The shop features an upbeat and bubbly setting that blends well with the vibrant metro. Some of the catchy attractions are the graffiti-inspired artwork and designs on some parts of the wall and the exceptional bright interiors in a black and red contrast […]

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Marmalade Kitchen

Marmalade Kitchen

Marmalade Kitchen is a restaurant that makes one feel at home because of its delicious home-cooked meals prepared by Chef Aileen Anastacio of the popular Goodies n’ Sweets The restaurant also has a dedicated space for a kitchen studio where Chef Aileen hosts cooking classes and seminars. Lined-up in the counter are take-home goodies that will catch your attention the moment you step inside. Their menu is simple yet oozes wonderful flavors like the Marmalade’s Bananas and Toffee Sauce (P290) consisting slabs of pancakes with slices of bananas and topped-off with toffee sauce. Truly a heartful meal for the soul. – Bananas and Toffee Sauce – Chef Aileen explores her […]

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Bonifacio Global City

Coffee and Saints Café

Coffee and Saints Café

Get the taste of heavenly affordable food! Centrally located inside the compound of Saint John Bosco Parish in Makati City, Coffee and Saints Café is the perfect example of a dining place that provides a pleasant experience every time one meets and convenes with family members and friends traditionally after hearing Sunday Mass. It caters and satisfies customers daily, mostly parishioners and residents of nearby condominiums and office workers. – Coffee and Saints Cafe Outside – The Dining Place – The café is being run by the Don Bosco PUGAD Center headed by its director, Fr. Dave Buenaventura, SDB. It is a livelihood project for migrant youths exclusively for boys […]

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A. Arnaiz Avenue

Cafe Breton

Cafe Breton

Experience artisan crepes. Cafe Breton is one of the best restaurants that serve skillfully made desserts to tickle the tastebuds of the sweet tooth. Known for its artisan crepes, Cafe Breton has its numerous flavors that you can choose from in their menu. Cafe Breton invites more audience to try their gratifying menu — from their crepes down to the best coffees they can offer. – Photo by: Gracie via Foodspotting.com – A crowd favorite is their Le Magnifique!, a crepe with choco-hazelnut spread and sliced bananas in the inside with a drizzle of chocolate syrup topped with whipped cream and sliced almonds. Who would not crave in this deliciously […]

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Velvet Friends Cat Café

Velvet Friends Cat Café

If heaven is a place on Earth, it must be The Haven at the Velvet Friends Cat Café in Blue Bay Walk, Pasay. On soft opening since Independence Day, it is the home of 14 soft-pawed felines whose job is to bring joy to passersby and guests. – COFFEE MAKES EVERYTHING POSSIBLE. Unlike other cat cafes in the Metro, the cafe is separated from the cat play area. – WELCOME. The maneki-neko welcomes the visitors of Velvet Friends. – It may come out as a surprise that before venturing to cats, owner Chito Aclon is a certified dog lover, and before that, a rabbit person. Together with Mrs. Venus Salangsang, […]

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Echo Café

Echo Café

– – Hear the echoes of a sound mind in a sound body at Echo Café. With the head offices at Serendra and Salcedo, Echo Café set as a pro-organic ingredients shop. It is under the concept of ECHO Sustainable Lifestyle concept. ECHO stands for “Environment & Community Hope Organization”, promoting living in a sustainable lifestyle under “conscious and caring consumerism”. They grow organic vegetables in their private farms in the Amadeo provinces of Cavite and are selling them to various suppliers. These vegetables are also used as ingredients for the food offered in the menu at the café. The café is also Echo Store’s contribution to promoting the hard […]

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Healthy/Organic

Healthy/Organic

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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La Creperie: Modern France of Salcedo, Makati

La Creperie: Modern France of Salcedo, Makati

To satisfy your crepe craving, head on down to La Creperie! With perfect ambiance plus amazing plates of crepes, what more can you ask for?

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Salcedo Village

Ark Café + Lounge

Ark Café + Lounge

Drinks, anyone? Located at the ground level of Classica 1 Condominium in H.V. Dela Costa St., Salcedo, Ark Café +Lounge is a perfect place to study or catch up with friends over a cup of coffee or a bottle of wine. Ark first opened their doors to their now-loyal patrons in April 2014. – Caption: GET ON THE ARK! Take only a few steps up to Ark Café + Lounge. – Ark’s minimalistic black and white interior has a very cozy appeal. Paintings and wine bottles adorn the walls, which gives the place a gallery sort of feel. – Caption: PIECE OF ART. Crisp and white walls decorated to perfection! […]

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Salcedo Village

Beanleaf Coffee, Tea and Sausages

Beanleaf Coffee, Tea and Sausages

Along the busy street of San Antonio Valley in Parañaque is a flourishing dining hub, particularly of coffee shops, which are undeniably the go-to weekend hangout spots of yuppies and students. One of these shops is Beanleaf Coffee, Tea, and Sausages, a homegrown coffee shop that opened in October 2014 with already many franchise branches in Las Piñas. . WITH A WIDE VARIETY OF DRINKS TO CHOOSE FROM, everyone is bound to find their perfect drink. . Bean Leaf offers a variety of drink selections that range from hot coffee and frappes to juices and milk tea. One of the favorites in the shop is the shop’s Beanleaf coffee signature, […]

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The White Cup Coffee & Milk Tea Bar

The White Cup Coffee & Milk Tea Bar

The southern part of Metro Manila, Las Piñas City in particular, has a lot of places where people hang out in their most relaxed attire. One cannot help but notice its laidback residents and casual neighborhood businesses. At one of the nicest coffee shops here – The White Cup Coffee & Milk Tea Bar – you can drop by even in its busiest hour wearing a shirt, shorts and flipflops, and no one would bat an eye. – Al fresco seating at White Cup – The White Cup is located along JB Tan Street in BF Resort Village. It is easily recognizable by the big signage along the side of […]

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Bakery and Sweets

Bakery and Sweets

Holly’s Coffee

Holly’s Coffee

At SM Southmall in Las Piñas City, Starbucks has a strong and unlikely competitor: Hollys Coffee, which boasts a following that is as loyal as the major coffee chain. – Hollys Coffee – Hollys Coffee is a specialty coffee company from Korea that was established in 1998. They have franchises all over Asia and Peru, and two branches in the Philippines. The branch in SM Southmall has spacious, inviting interiors filled with inviting couches, comfortable wooden chairs, and big, artsy vintage murals. These, plus Hollys’ free WiFi connection and several electric outlets, make it the perfect neighborhood hangout for both young and old. – Spacious interiors – Hollys offers coffee, […]

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Milky Moustache

Milky Moustache

For those with a sweet tooth, Milky Moustache is a godsend. This cutesy neighborhood cafe serves coffee, tea, all-day breakfast items and tasty snacks such as paninis, sandwiches and pasta. … CUTE WITH A CAPITAL C. Milky Moustache looks homey and inviting, complete with a white porch. … But to top it all off, Milky Moustache specializes in fantastic, creamy milkshakes. One might find the number of choices overwhelming, but simply ask the servers for the bestsellers, and they will most likely point you to The Mustachio (the cookie butter milkshake, P170) or The Horseshoe (the Reese’s peanut butter milkshake, P170). Both milkshakes are rich and smooth, and the flavors […]

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Maitre Chocolatier

Maitre Chocolatier

Anyone could easily mistake this place for just another dessert café. That’s where they are wrong. Ferrero Hazelnut Crunch Cake Maitre Chocolatier is said to be the first boutique café in the country. They not only serve rich chocolate desserts but unique dishes as well. Their Grilled Chicken Sandwich with Spicy Chocolate Sauce (P135) and White Chocolate Vegetable Omelette (P122) would pique the interest of anyone’s taste buds. White Chocolate Carbonara Quality chocolate brands, such as Lindt and Merci, can be found in this chocolate haven. You can buy these as gifts or souvenirs for your loved ones, but why not make it special? Chocolate gift baskets, trays, hearts and […]

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Bakery and Sweets

Bakery and Sweets

Kuppa Roastery & Café

Kuppa Roastery & Café

Inside the quaint shop The café opened in 2012, attracting customers of all ages. 2-3 times a week, handpicked coffee beans are roasted in their own machine. You may choose your preferred extraction method among many, such as by aero press. The shop has two floors with 100 seats. The second floor may be reserved for private events, and the first floor has a smoking area. Ben’s cappuccino (P80) Even though the Chocolate Peanut Butter Bombe (P140) is their bestseller, we recommend the chocolate cake with gelato. Matt’s chocolate cake with gelato (P190) The hot melted chocolate oozing out of the chocolate cake topped with cold ice cream makes […]

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Bonifacio Global City

Old Manila Coffee House

Old Manila Coffee House

Passing through the doors of the Old Manila Coffee House feels like a trip down history lane. The warm, subdued lighting and the ticking sound of the wall clock create a feeling of nostalgia of the good old Showa days. Discerning coffee lovers would be glad to find Old Manila serving 100% Arabica beans organically grown in the Philippines. Popular drink choices include the cappuccino float and cinnamon latte art. The menu gives focus on Philippine cuisine. There is a relatively large selection of healthy drinks, such as coffee and milkshake (P110) and hot chocolate (P100).

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Legazpi Village

The Curator

The Curator

A shop that specializes not only in coffee but also serves liquor and cocktails at night. The Curator is located just right around the corner of Legaspi Village in Palanca Makati. The industrial design with the rustic finishes are among the many reasons why this project deserves to be one of the hidden gems of Makati. You can always surprise yourself and let the barista recommends Brew of the Day menu, which obviously changes every day. But a must-try is the Single Origin Espresso (P120), the blended coffee beans came all the way from Columbia. You can also try their signature coffee, single-shot or double shot. The stylish space that resembles […]

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Legazpi Village

Epic Coffee Roastery

Epic Coffee Roastery

Epic Coffee Roastery is a nice place to read alone or to enjoy coffee together with a friend. The place emanates a warm atmosphere with its wooden fixtures, brick walls and bikes display. Anyone can have their own little time here in this neighborhood-cafe as it offers a homey vibe. Epic offers coffee and cakes, and it recently started serving rice meals as well. Pour Over (Regular P110/Large P130), is a paper drip-made coffee which gives off a simple taste, they use Japanese-designed pour–over brewer. In addition, anyone can enjoy the latte art when someone orders caffé latte and cappuccino. Homemade Tapa w/ Rice (P245) Strawberry Cheesecake (P170)

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EDSA Beverage Design Group

EDSA Beverage Design Group

This café is not only a place for coffee lovers but also for beer enthusiast. The first floor of the EDSA Beverages Design Group building houses the roasting machines and equipments used in making coffee while the coffee and cocktail bar is located on the second floor. It is a charm that the aroma of freshly brewed coffee radiates throughout the stylish shop.

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Sagada Brew: More than Just Coffee

Sagada Brew: More than Just Coffee

It has been said once and we’ll say it again: Sagada is a town made for walking. Most of the time, first-time tourists find it tiring to go up and down the hilly food street in this sleepy town. Sagada Brew can change that. Located at almost the end of Sagada Road, Sagada Brew is not just a cafe. It is also a restaurant where you can have an appetizing breakfast or lunch and a dessert place where you can get home-made baked goodies at reasonable prices. Although the restaurant is quite small and the interior is simple, the combination of the pale yellow walls, the wooden tables and chairs […]

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