{"id":66919,"date":"2026-05-15T09:04:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T01:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/?p=66919"},"modified":"2026-05-15T09:04:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T01:04:05","slug":"bakuran-tasting-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/location\/philippines\/quezon-city\/bakuran-tasting-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Bakuran Tasting Club in Quezon City: An Intimate Filipino Tasting Journey Rooted in Memory and Craft"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Quezon City<\/strong>, Bakuran Tasting Club<\/strong> brings Filipino cuisine into a more intimate and thoughtful dining setting, offering an eight-seat tasting experience<\/strong> built around memory, heritage, and modern technique.<\/p>\n

Located along Carmel Avenue<\/strong>, the restaurant presents itself as a quiet, reservation-based destination where guests are invited to slow down and experience Filipino flavors through a curated multi-course menu.<\/p>\n

\"\"IMAGE from Bakuran Tasting Club’s Instagram account<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The name Bakuran<\/strong> immediately gives the restaurant its sense of place. In Filipino, bakuran<\/em> refers to a backyard, a familiar space often connected with home, gatherings, and food shared among family and friends. For Bakuran Tasting Club, this idea becomes the foundation of the dining experience.<\/p>\n

It looks back to the backyard not merely as a physical space, but as a symbol of generosity, resourcefulness, and warmth that define Filipino heritage.<\/p>\n

\"\"IMAGE from Bakuran Tasting Club’s Instagram account<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

At the heart of the restaurant is its 9-course tasting menu<\/strong>, described as an intimate journey through Filipino cuisine. The current menu, titled \u201cAsim: A Study on Balance,\u201d<\/strong> explores flavors that are familiar to many Filipinos while presenting them in a refined and carefully structured format.<\/p>\n

The menu begins with Panaderya<\/strong>, a bread course featuring sourdough focaccia, Sagada honey butter, and aged cheddar. From there, the experience moves through courses such as Sipit Pomelo<\/strong>, Kinilaw Biasong<\/strong>, Chicharon Sampalok<\/strong>, Kordero Kamatis<\/strong>, Green Mango Kendi<\/strong>, Pato Gumamela<\/strong>, Pansit. Ihaw. Prito<\/strong>, and Coco Dalandan<\/strong>. Even through the names alone, the menu reflects a strong Filipino sensibility, drawing from ingredients, cooking methods, and flavor profiles that feel deeply rooted in local food culture.<\/p>\n

\"\"Sipit Pomelo \/ IMAGE from Bakuran Tasting Club’s Instagram account<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Its limited seating also shapes the experience. With only eight seats<\/strong> available and dinner service held from Friday to Sunday at 7:00 p.m.<\/strong>, Bakuran Tasting Club is designed for guests who want a more personal and deliberate meal. The small format allows the restaurant to focus on detail, pacing, and connection, giving diners a closer view of the food and the thought behind each course.<\/p>\n

For diners who enjoy Filipino flavors but are looking for a more composed and intimate way to experience them, Bakuran Tasting Club offers a fresh perspective. It does not rely on extravagance alone. Instead, it builds its identity around meaning: the backyard as origin, the Filipino table as inspiration, and the tasting menu as a way to tell stories through food.<\/p>\n

Through its small seating capacity, heritage-driven menu, and thoughtful approach to local ingredients, Bakuran Tasting Club presents Filipino cuisine with quiet confidence. It is a restaurant that reminds guests that some of the country\u2019s most meaningful flavors often begin in the simplest places: at home, in the backyard, and around a table meant for sharing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Quezon City, Bakuran Tasting Club brings Filipino cuisine into a more intimate and thoughtful dining setting, offering an eight-seat tasting experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":66925,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,9],"tags":[8726,8724,8725,8727],"class_list":["post-66919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-filipino","category-quezon-city","tag-bakuran","tag-bakuran-tasting-club","tag-chef-lee-janicas","tag-filipino-heritage"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66919"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66927,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66919\/revisions\/66927"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}