I've been going to Tinuno for many years now! They have always been consistent with flavours and…read moreservice. Highly recommend the kamayan, it's super fun and super flavourful. It feels warm and inviting when you walk in. I enjoyed the calamansi juice, it was refreshing! Make sure to eat the milkfish with the vinegar :)

Love how accessible this spot is from the tfc (literally a block away!) we tried the Kamayan/boodle…read morefight. While I appreciate how neat the setup was, the service was sort of chaotic. We asked for halo halo to go along with our check and were seated directly in front of the pay/front counter and it took them 30 minutes. We saw multiple servers assisting each table while other servers stood behind the counter; I don't doubt they meant well; it just seems disorganized to me. There is upstairs seating and reservations optional to make; but from what I saw it didn't seem like they're prepared so why bother making a reservation. Regardless, the portion for 2 was plenty and the unlimited garlic rice is awesome (superrrr Filipino) we didn't need more rice, but it's a nice option. I will say the halo halo was fire; I am not sorry about the long wait it was worth it.

After a FEAST at neighbouring Tinuno, we were really craving the Halo-Halo and one of the servers…read morerecommended this place. I'm not the halo halo expert I pretend to be but it was a lot of fun - the staff was so friendly and ready to please. The dessert- it had jelly, jackfruit, flan, ube ice cream, evaporated milk, sweet potato and ice!! I think it's basically everything.

Foods are mostly recycled. The foods do not represent the tastiest Filipino authentic foods -…read morepricey too! We need good Filipino restaurants in Downtown.

This food stall inside World Food Market is an extension of Tagpuan Kensington Market and serves up…read moredelicious and authentic halal Filipino cuisine. The staff are very friendly and there are a couple of benches in front of the food stall that you can enjoy your meal, enjoy the weather in the warmer winter and the warm atmosphere. We tried appetizers, bowls, Beef and Chicken Mami, Tapsilog and also their authentic Filipino desserts. Everything was fresh and tasted good.

This is a Filipino food stall, which opened on 2025-04-03. Tagpuan means "meeting place". It is…read morelocated in the World Food Market outdoor food court. There are 6 locations throughout Toronto, four of which are east of the DVP. This food stall is a subsidiary of the restaurant on College St. Since this is a food stall, it serves a subset of the menu from College St. And all the food is halal. Overall, their food was authentic and delicious. We ordered the following: A. Pastries: 1. Ensaymada (original, $3.50). 2. Ensaymada (ube, $3.50). B. Appetizers: 3. Shanghai / Spring Rolls (6 for $5.00). C. Street Food: 4. Chicken Empanada x 3 ($3.99 each). 5. Mini Turon (Banana Lumpia) x 3 ($1.99 each). 6. Mixed Street Food Skewers (1 for $4 or 3 for $10): Fishball, Kikiam, Squid Ball, Kwek-Kwek x 2. D. Drinks: 7. Sago Gulaman x 2 ($4.99 each). 8. Mango Can ($3.99). 9. Calimansi Can ($3.99). E. Mains: 10. Tapsilog ($15.99). 11. Chicken Inasal with Steamed Rice ($12.99). 12. Beef Mami ($15.99). 13. Chicken Mami ($15.99). F. Desserts: 14. Taho ($4.99). 15. Pandan Milk Jelly ($4.99). 16. Ube Milk Jelly ($4.99). The customer service is good, although you may have to wait during busy meal times because there were so many customers. The Ensaymada is a fluffy bread type pastry filled with custard or ube. Both were delicious. The Shanghai and Empanada were good. I loved the Mini Turon which had banana and jack fruit inside a crispy shell, coated with caramelized brown sugar. For their skewers, you can pour a spiced vinegar sauce or a fishball sauce, or both into the cardboard container. The fishball sauce is a thick, sweet and savory sauce. Kikiam is a sausage-like roll made of minced pork and vegetables, seasoned with 5-spice powder Kwek Kwek is simply made up of hardboiled quail eggs that's coated in a pancake-like batter, and deep-fried until light and crispy. I absolutely loved the Sago Gulaman drink. I love sago pieces. The Gulaman has a sweetness from agar, which I also love. Calimansi is Philippine's most popular drink. Tapsilog, a popular Filipino (breakfast?) meal, is a portmanteau of the dish's three components: tapa (beef), sinangag (garlic fried rice), and itlog (fried egg). The beef was good. The fried rice was indeed garlicy. Chicken Inasal is a grilled chicken, typically the breast (Pecho) or leg (Paa). This version was the breast. This chicken was moist and perfectly cooked. Beef Mami is a type of Beef Noodle soup of Filipino-Chinese origin. This is simply composed of tender beef brisket and egg noodles, boiled eggs, and other toppings which are soaked in a hot and flavourful beef stock. This was indeed nice to have on a cold day like today. The beef was tender. Chicken Mami is a Filipino-style soup with flavourful stock, fresh egg noodles, flaked chicken, vegetables, and tasty toppings! This warm soup was also welcome on a cold day like today. Taho is a Philippine snack food made of fresh soft/silken tofu, arnibal, and sago pearl. This staple comfort food.of course I liked this because of the sago and tofu. I love anything with silky tofu in it! You usually eat it with a spoon but you can also use a wide straw. The Milk Jelly were good. It had a lot of flavoured jellies in thick milk. There are many picnic tables in the outdoor food court. Unfortunately during the Spring and Fall, the tables are not surrounded by walls as they are during winter. We happen to come when the temperature was around 2C! It felt so cold with the windchill. There is no free WiFi. The food stall is wheelchair accessible. There are o washrooms at this food court. There is paid neighbourhood street parking. Review 2025-047

The desserts that they make are never too sweet which is the ultimate compliment from me :D…read more -[UBE DE LECHE DONUT] $8.00 This is two fluffy dulche de leche donuts that sandwich their signature ube cake, ube mousse, and small pieces of flan. This is a limited edition menu item so if you see it offered again, jump on the chance because this is an absolutely delicious donut. Highly highly recommend it especially if you're a fan of ube like I am

This Filipino virtual restaurant has amazing innovative food. They are famous for their signature…read more22-layer Olive Oil Tsoko Mousse Cake, a 22-layer  chocolate mousse cake which is airy and moist. You can get a 6" x 6" x 6" cake for $38 or a slice for $10. Because of the airiness and deliciousness, you can easily eat a slice, or two! You'll notice throughout this review, there are monthly/weekly specials so we keep going back for more! A virtual restaurant is one that only prepares food for delivery or pickup only. There will never for indoor or outdoor dining at this restaurant. It can also be called a ghost kitchen. We started experiencing Adobar in Sep 2020 by having their savory food: Smokey Porc Adobar Meal ($12) and Spicy Chicken Adobar Meal ($12). If you are picking up, you must order ahead online and contact them when you arrive and someone will come to the entrance with your order. Adobar is located on Dundas St East, east of Jarvis. They have also made cake jars (a cake in a Mason jar) for $10 each, in various flavours. They cakes are quite thick and require a strong spoon to scope it out. They have made flavours such as: Tsoko Mousse Cake (from their famous 22-layer Tsoko Cake), Ube Coconut Cake, White Rabbit Cake, Dulce de Leche with Cheese Foam Cake, and White Chocolate Matcha Cake. Some of them are available as weekly specials only. Sometimes they with collaborate with other restaurants.  For example, in Apr 2021, they collaborated with Ulamkits' Panaderia to provide combine their bao (cheesy and sweet ensaymada), stuffed with Adobar's own smoky pork garnished with pork floss, scallions and spicy sauce. This combination was called AdoBao. It came as a kit where you have to broil it in an oven for a few minutes. For Mother's Day 2021, they collaborated with Tito Parley's Silvanas (frozen cookies with cashew-meringue wafers filled with cream). Adobar put their decadent chocolate between the wafers and wrote "Thank You" on the top wafer along with edible 23k gold leaf. You can eat it frozen or thawed. 2021-062 You can also find me on Instagram @chuan_chee. Thanks.

I love it when you call me SENYORITAAAAA! Don't sleep on this place! They have the best filipino…read morefood in the GTA. The family platter (Feeds 6-9 people) is a great value. The Food is fresh and you can really taste it. The seafood is not chewy or smelly.. everything was fresh fresh fresh!!! The bbq was soooo good! I'm so happy that Filipino food is making waves in the GTA! It's great to support local businesses! Try this place out and see for your self!

I like that while it's a sit-down restaurant, Tagpuan also has a sari-sari store in the back, and…read morethey sell siopao, longanisa, ensaymada, mani, and more, which are super easy to grab and go. Check out their items made by local Fil-Can businesses like Pinay Collection! In addition, their Too Good to Go offerings are super generous.

'Tagpuan' is a Filipino word which means a meeting place/location and it's aptly named since this…read moreis a place where you can meet Filipino/non-Filipino friends or families to partake in Filipino cuisine in downtown Toronto. It's a small cozy place with limited seating. When you enter the place, you will see a glass counter with a wide range of unlabeled and unpriced dishes that can be confusing for the uninitiated. There are also dishes that can be made to order including the 'Silog' breakfast. Tried their Dinuguan dish and Halo-Halo. The dinuguan is on the salty side and the Halo-Halo is lacking in ingredients. At the back of this place they have a small 'Sari-Sari' store which is basically a convenience store selling Filipino groceries and merchandise such as t-shirts emblazoned with a Tagalog word slogan. And since this is located in downtown, prices are on the expensive side compared to their suburbs counterparts. But if you're really in need of Filipino ingredients or just craving Filipino food, I guess this is the place to be. Just don't expect to find everything here and be prepared to pay premium pricing.

A few Saturdays back, a couple of friends and I met up at Islas Filipino BBQ and Bar. We all…read morepitched eatery ideas and went with this suggestion from our Filipino friend who has always been my guide when it comes to Filipino food. We originally planned on going in early February. We meet up roughly every two months. One friend had to cancel. I was away during the long Family Day weekend. Instead, we rescheduled to the Saturday after the long weekend. I am the reservation booker in our group. I don't wait for someone to do it. It's an automatic instinct. I booked online twice. It was easy to cancel my first reservation and reschedule. You get a text message that confirms that your reservation is good or that your cancellation request went through. You also get a reminder a day before and an hour before your reservation. Nice! I had no problem finding a parking spot on Queen Street West, steps away from the eatery on the north side of the street. It's Green P parking, so I paid for three hours of parking through the app. I then started a new session for an hour because we tend to go over three hours when we dine as a group. It's such a great app and is convenient! One of my friends had arrived when I did. Moments later, our other friend made it. We all walked into the restaurant. The woman who greeted us knew my name from the reservation. It was nice to not say much! We got a nice table in the middle of the eatery. We ordered the following items: - To' silog with pandesal (me) - Bulalo (beef shank) soup - Barbeque - chicken and pineapple skewers - Sisig with steamed rice - Cava - Manila bay x 3 We got water to start. Our group tends to go for alcoholic drinks. We went with a bottle of cava, which was the best. It was fizzy, light, and enjoyable for brunch. I wanted a Filipino breakfast and went with the to' silog with pandesal. It had Filipino bacon called tocino that was pork belly. I love pork belly and liked how it was both slightly sweet and savory. I got two fried eggs, a light salad, and an orange wedge. It came with the fluffiest pandesal that I used to sop up the runny yolks. The garlic fried rice was amazing. Everything was delicious. One of my friend had the barbeque. I learned that barbeque means things on skewers that are barbequed. She got chicken and pineapple on skewers that came dangling from a pretty skewer holder with dipping sauce in the middle of it. She loved it so much. She saw my pandesal and my devouring it as if I hadn't had bread in my life that she got one. She understood how yummy it was. My other friend got the Bulalo (beef shank) soup. He was impressed that I knew the name of his dish. We have similar tastes. I like shank in soup. If I didn't have a craving for Filipino breakfast, I would have had this dish. He enjoyed it. It looked huge and hearty, especially with corn on the cob and other veggies in the soup. As we dined and chatted, I noticed an orange drink that the table next to us had. I asked our server what it was. It was Manila Bay. It had San Miguel beer, gin, calamansi, and honey. It was a traditional Manila drink. Our group said yes to a pitcher. It technical serves two, but we split it between the three of us to see if we liked it. OMG! This cocktail was delicious. We loved it so much that we ordered two more pitchers, so we essentially had one each when we were done. It was totally worth splurging to get it. It was refreshing and yummy. We didn't get any dessert. We were full from the food and drinks. Our alcoholic drinks were our dessert... haha! The washrooms are downstairs. It's an older building, so it's not great accessibility-wise. The washroom was clean and decent. Staff were so patient with us. We were the first group to arrive and the last to leave at around 4:30 pm. We got the bill split in three. All three of us paid with credit cards. I tapped and tipped. All was great. It's a fabulous place to enjoy authentic Filipino food and drinks with company. Everything was yummy and staff were great. I'd return in a heartbeat for more. Maybe we can do a kamayan feast (boodle fight eating with your hands) next time. (117)

Food: 3.5 Stars Service: 3 Stars…read moreAmbience: 3 Stars Fill Factor: Filling This is a late review but I came here based on a recommendation by a co-worker who really liked their BBQ offerings. Overall I was fairly satisfied with the food and wouldn't mind trying some of their other offerings. For some reason I was very excited to try this place so I ordered a bit more than I usually do. We did the prix fixe menu choosing the lumpia as our starter, adobo as our main, and a halo halo as our dessert. We also ordered the BBQ pork as this was highly recommended and the main reason I wanted to try Islas. The BBQ pork definitely met the hype as the meat was tender and flavourful. The lumpia (which is essentially a spring roll) was also great with its crispy exterior and flavourful fillings. The halo halo was solid as well. The adobo was the one thing I did not really enjoy much. It was ok but this is not the flavour of adobo that I personally enjoy. It was not bad but not the flavour I think of when I want adobo. The space was large and was dimly lit. It felt clean and spacious and the decor was alright nothing special. The service was ok. They took our order, brought our food and cashed us out. Really nothing especially good or bad. All in all I would definitely come back here for the BBQ and to try some of their other offerings. Glad I came here and tried it and would recommend the same to anyone looking for food in the area.

As soon as you walk into Casa Manila, the interior is decorated with the diversity of the Filipino…read morecultural mosaic. Not just the chairs and tables, but the walls and decorations are all distinctly Filipino. If you're looking for very traditional Filipino cuisine, included to but not limited to Kamayan feasts (huge family style portions brought out on banana leaves) and Halo Halo which has to be my favorite desert of all time, they've got you covered. Their Halo Halo is in my humble opinion one of the main reasons to check this place out. There's a few different ways to make this, but Casa Manila's includes shaved ice with cream, fruit, agar, sweet beans, custard (leche flan which you can also order on its own), purple yam, ice cream and rice flakes!

My family and I were visiting Toronto, Canada from Hawaii and Vegas and wanted Filipino food. We…read morecame here as walk-in and they accommodated us a party of 6. Food was amazing! I think this maybe one of the best Filipino restaurant I've had and my husband agrees. Their pancit bihon was sooooo good that we wanted to order another one but was told it'll take another 40 minutes to make... we also ordered pork adobo which was super tender! I ordered a mango mojito cocktail for myself and a cocktail for my husband and it was delicious! The place was small but nice inside.

This is a two-night market featuring one of the Philippines' popular ingredients called Ube, which…read moreis vivid purple in colour. There is food, drinks, live music, and art. It is free to enter the night market. Ube is a purple yam, a type of sweet potato, scientifically called dioscorea alata. It's deep purple colour is due to the presence of anthocyanins. There were so many food vendors. There was Filipino artist Leeroy New, DJ Nina Salvo, Band BotterxBroke, and a magician. We ordered the following: 1. From Tito Parley's: Salvanas ($7.00), a macaron x ice cream sandwich, Ube Coco flavour. 2. From Hazel's Best: Ube Gulaman Samalamig ($6.00), a cold drink. 3. From Islas: UBE Smash Burger (double, $15.00). The food and drink we got were so delicious! There are picnic tables to sit on. After 18:00, it got crowded, so it may be hard to find a spot to sit down. We also met a friend, Rechie Valdez, federal Minister of Small Business. She herself is Canada's first Filipino federal minister. There is no free WiFi. The festival is wheelchair accessible. There are two paid parking lots. Review 2023-304

First time attending the UBE night Market. Tons of vendors with lots of ube items on their menu…read more There was also a magician and music. Fun to drop by and check out some food. I loved the ube pork adobo cheese bun, very unique and delicious. Some items are really pricy for what you get, but that's usually the case at the night markets. Fun to try out some limited time items for the festival. Loved that there was a ube themed backdrop to take a photo and it was great that it was walking distance to us.