Restaurants, street food, and culinary experiences
A Manila nightlife guide to the bars worth the trip: Curator, OTO, Polilya, Bank Bar, and the rooftops with the best sunsets, plus which streets to avoid and how Grab fares actually work after midnight.
30 Manila restaurants worth eating at, grouped by neighbourhood and use case, with the dishes worth ordering at each one.
If I had to send a first-timer to one neighbourhood for street food, it would be Quiapo. Loud, crowded, the bit of Manila that has not been polished smooth. Here is the hawker map from Quiapo to Binondo, what to eat at each stall, and how to do it without ending up in trouble.
