Filipino Restaurants Around the World
Hey, dear readers, I’m putting out a call for information about Filipino restaurants around the world. If you know of any good ones, please let the rest of us in on the secret by leaving the name and location of the restaurant in the comments. Filipino cuisine doesn’t seem to get a lot of press, but we all yearn for good homemade fresh lumpia every now and then. 
So let’s share the goodies and let the world know where they can taste our unique cuisine and the dishes it inspires.
I’ll start with these two in New York:
Grill 21
346 E. 21st St., between 1st and 2nd Aves., Manhattan, NYC
212-473-5921
According to Chow.com, Grill 21 offers plenty of barbecue Filipino-style: salmon, tilapia (yum!), bangus (yum! yum!), short ribs, pork belly (oh-my-mama yum!), chicken, etc. The requisite crispy pata, lumpia, adobo, kare-kare, and longsilog are also available.
Bayan Cafe
212 E. 45th St., between 2nd and 3rd Aves., Manhattan
212-450-8260
Bayan Cafe is something of a newcomer to the restaurant scene, according to Chow.com. But its website is already up! The menu is available on the website and, I tell you, I want to head over there to feast! They also deliver and cater. Er, I wonder if they deliver out-of-state.
Image: Fresh Lumpiang Ubod from Max’s of Manila
Tags: Filipino food, Filipino eateries, Filipino cuisine, Filipino restaurants
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[...] Note: This post is part of our series called Filipino Eats – Worldwide, where we attempt to source out great restaurants all over the world. If you know of any, send us an email at maricar-at-b5media-dot-com. [...]
Patio Filipino in San Bruno is excellent!! The food is fresh and tasty, the decor is fabulous — it’s not your typical carinderia or turo-turo, just great food at reasonable prices.
http://www.patiofilipino.com/
[...] Since I started this series called Filipino Eats – Worldwide, it seems that Filipino restaurants have been in the news more often (or maybe I’m just more aware?). [...]
Filipino food is not as good as Thai, Vietnamese, Japanese, Korean, Malaysian, Indian or Chinese. The food is not as interesting or authentic compared to other. Filipino is just too plain – I’m Filipino and have a lot of comments from caucasians that they are more skeptical about filipino foods – foods like dinuguan and other fattening food.
I wish that we could improve an offer much better selection.
There is a Filipino restaurant in Atlantic City, NJ
and it is very good
our food is great food. its the “soul food” of asia. i like the fact that we eat crazy stuff, but we still need to lighten up our food to make it more healthy, which is hard since everything is salty and fried. i am filipino and i take in the bad and the good. thats life. filipino food is too diverse to say it is plain. who cares what the caucasians say. they are the global minority. what is authentic anyway? be proud and submit to no one.
I am based in Switzerland. I invite a lot of friends for dinner and all of them likes Filipino food. No one can resist adobo, bicol express, menudo, kaldereta, cassava cake. etc. Even the Italians who only eat their mama’s food like what I cook. Filipino food is always a hit because for Europeans it is a new taste. It is nonsense to say our food is plain. Our food is quite diverse. It is a melting pot of Southeast Asian, Chinese, Spanish, and even American cuisines. You can easily find coconut milk laced dishes to paellas and spring rolls. Even simple fried dishes are always accompanied by delicious sauces and salsas. There is no problem at all with our food, the problem is we are just not enough proud of it.
I only know one person who’s name is Catha’ Aquino, she used to work at Irri… hi Catha, it’s ma’am Grace (Posa) from IRRI (1998)!!! I write the http://www.filipinasoul.com, which you visited.
small world huh? i’ll email you and link your blog. it’s exactly what I’ve been looking for, a travel blog to the PI.
Thanks for the updates regarding great restaurants. I’ll try them out and see if they’re really that authentic. Thanks again.
do you know of any filipino resturants in the boston area by any chance? thanks!
Palayok (Filipina-owned restaurant in Ruwi Muscat, Oman) cook/staff are also Pinoys
This place is serving mouth-watering kare-kare/bagoong (with oxtail of course since pork is prohibited in the country), sizzling seafood, pancit, adobo, lumpia, tortang talong, halo-halo, cassava, siopao, etc
Arabs particularly Egyptians and Omanis come to this place and could not resist to come back for more of these dishes.
Thanks for this information! It’s great to know that others (non-Filipinos) appreciate our cuisine.
Filipino foods are not plain,FYI. It’s actually rich in flavors. Salty, yes indeed. It’s simply because we are using rice. Unhealthy or fattening? What the heck. It is our food, that’s the way most Filipino loves it.Mas masarap daw kasi ang bawal. But honestly, I am proud of all our dishes, how can anyone say it is not authentic? where else can you see someone pour a swine blood over the rice? isn’t that authentic enough?
That’s the way we want it.Exotic and Crazy.mmm..mm.mm!
By the way, i know one in Taipei, CresArt Philippine Cuisine. TO all our Great Filipino Workers based in Taipei who misses karekare, dinuguan and everything. It is something that we Filipino called “Lutong Bahay”!
Hi, I’m looking for Filipino restaurants in Amsterdam, Holland; Berlin and Hamburg, Germany and Zurich, Switzerland. If you know of any, please let me know.
Thanks.
I love the food in Cresart Taipei, the beef steak especially
the barbecue, bihon, turon as well.
You are just like in your own place.
Thanks Cresart and more power !