Restoran Filipino Kitchen
Est. 2019 · Mount Pleasant, Vancouver

A Filipino table,
set for everyone.

Charcoal, vinegar, coconut and calamansi — cooked the way our lolas taught us, plated the way we eat now. Come hungry; we cook for the whole table.

Dinner Tue – Thu 5–10pm · Fri – Sat 5–11pm
Kamayan Sundays Hands only, 10am – 3pm
Walk-ins 18 seats held at the bar, nightly
The open kitchen pass during service, lit by hanging rattan lamps Crates of produce at the morning market
Ang simula — the beginning

We opened a room
that smells like home.

Restoran started as a Sunday habit. Twelve people around a table too small for them, a pot of adobo that had been on the stove since morning, and an argument about whether it needed more vinegar. It always needed more vinegar.

We cook regional Filipino food with the technique we picked up in other people's kitchens and the seasoning we grew up with. Nothing here is fusion. It's the food our families make, given the room and the sourcing it always deserved.

“Kain na tayo.” — let's eat.

42 Seats in the room
18hr Bulalo simmer
7 Regions on the menu

Read our story

Ang paborito — the favourites

Six plates that explain
the whole kitchen.

Sour, salty, fatty, sweet — usually all four at once, and always something sharp cutting through the middle. That's the shape of a Filipino plate.

Chicken adobo braised in coconut cream, served with steamed rice Luzon

Adobong Manok sa Gata

$26

Chicken thigh braised in cane vinegar and soy, finished with coconut cream, bay and a lot of cracked pepper.

Sizzling pork sisig on a cast iron plate with an egg yolk Pampanga

Sizzling Sisig

$24

Pork jowl, chopped fine, hot cast iron, chilli, calamansi and an egg you stir in yourself at the table.

Kare-kare oxtail stew in peanut sauce with eggplant and bok choy Signature

Kare-Kare

$32

Oxtail and tripe in toasted peanut and annatto, four hours down. Bagoong on the side — it needs it.

Chicken inasal grilled over charcoal with garlic rice Bacolod

Chicken Inasal

$25

Annatto, lemongrass and calamansi, over binchōtan. Served with the chicken-oil rice, as it should be.

Sinigang na hipon, prawns in a sour tamarind broth Sabaw

Sinigang na Hipon

$22

Spot prawns in a tamarind broth we keep aggressively sour. Kangkong, radish, long beans, plenty of steam.

Halo-halo shaved ice with ube ice cream and leche flan Panghimagas

Halo-Halo

$14

Nine layers, one spoon, no instructions. Ube halaya, leche flan, sweet beans, pinipig, evaporated milk.

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Sundays only · 10am – 3pm

Kamayan: no plates,
no cutlery, no phones.

Banana leaves down the length of the table, everything laid on top — garlic rice, inihaw na liempo, grilled squid, prawns, salted egg and tomato, mangoes to finish. You eat with your hands, together, until the leaf is empty. Minimum four guests, 48 hours' notice.

Book a kamayan What's on the leaf

$68per guest · min. 4
Ang mga tao — the people

Who's cooking tonight

Portrait of executive chef Amihan Dela Cruz

Amihan Dela Cruz

Chef & Co-owner

Grew up in Iloilo, trained in Vancouver, spent eight years cooking someone else's food before opening a room for her own.

Portrait of sous chef Miguel Ramos

Miguel Ramos

Sous Chef

Runs the ihawan. Believes charcoal is a seasoning and that most people pull their pork belly off far too early.

Portrait of general manager Sol Villanueva

Sol Villanueva

General Manager

Built the lambanog and amaro list. Will find you a table if there is any table to be found.

Sa loob — inside

Forty-two seats, one
very loud kitchen.

Warm light, hard surfaces, a room built for the volume Filipino dinners actually reach.

See the whole room

What people say
★★★★★

The kare-kare tastes like my Tita's, which is the highest compliment I am capable of giving a restaurant.

Marisol R. · Regular since 2020
★★★★★

We did the Sunday kamayan for my dad's 60th. Twelve of us, no cutlery, three hours. Nobody looked at a phone once.

Dan & Kat P. · Kamayan Sunday
★★★★★

I came in for the sisig and stayed for the ube sour. The room is loud in the good way — you can hear a kitchen actually working.

Theo A. · Vancouver, BC
★★★★★

Finally somewhere I can take colleagues who've never had Filipino food and know they'll get the real version, explained kindly.

Jess M. · Mount Pleasant
Dalaw — visit

Find us on Bayanihan Lane.

Two blocks off Main, the door with the orange awning. Look for the smoke.

Address

1187 Bayanihan Lane
Vancouver, BC V5T 1M4
Canada

Directions & parking

Hours

  • Tue – Thu 5:00 – 10:00 pm
  • Fri – Sat 5:00 – 11:00 pm
  • Sunday 10:00 am – 3:00 pm
  • Monday Closed

Reservations

Book up to 60 days ahead. Parties of 7+ and all kamayan tables go through the office.

(604) 555-0142
kumusta@restoran.ca

Book a table

Sulat — stay in touch

One email a month.
Nothing else, ever.

Seasonal menu changes, kamayan dates, and the occasional lechon that needs eating. We won't sell your address to anyone.