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Restaurants, hotels, bars and wineries in Makati from the En Primeur Club guide.
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Makati counts five Michelin-starred restaurants in our guide. The starred kitchens include modern Filipino rooms and contemporary Asian cooking, plus a seasonal tasting-menu counter. Four Wine Spectator Awards of Excellence sit citywide, including Hapag in Makati, where the list is sommelier-led, and Ayà in Rockwell Center, where the list is extensive. Citywide, three venues carry an exceptional wine program.
The Makati neighborhood holds 22 venues in our guide, the largest neighborhood count in the city, with Legazpi Village, Salcedo Village and Poblacion next. Formats range from tasting menus and prix fixe dinners to counter dining, omakase and a la carte service. Wine lists appear across starred rooms and hotel dining, including Old Manila in Makati City, which pairs an extensive wine list with a sake program, and Sala in Makati.
Michelin-starred restaurants
Our guide counts five Michelin-starred restaurants in Makati and five Michelin stars in total. Hapag, Helm and Celera in Makati, and Inatô in Karrivin, each hold a star dated 2026, with wine beside tasting menus or counter dining.
Hapag
Hapag in Makati holds a Michelin star and a Wine Spectator Award of Excellence, both dated 2026. Regional Filipino dishes are cooked with modern technique, on a tasting menu or prix fixe. The wine program is sommelier-led, with craft cocktails. Tatler included it in Best 20 Restaurants Philippines, and The Best Chef awarded One Knife.
Helm
Helm in Makati holds a Michelin star dated 2026. A 10-seat counter faces an open kitchen, where Chef Josh Boutwood and his team cook seasonal menus built around a theme. The wine program is sommelier-led. La Liste scored the restaurant at 93 points in that same year, and Tatler listed it among Best Restaurants Asia-Pacific.
Inatô
Inatô in Karrivin holds a Michelin star dated 2026. Eight diners face the open kitchen from a marble counter, and Chef JP Cruz sends out seasonal grilled dishes and kinilaw. Service covers a set menu, a la carte and counter dining. Tatler named the restaurant Best Service and included it in Best 20 Restaurants Philippines.
Celera
Celera in Makati holds a Michelin star dated 2026. The chefs cook contemporary Asian food with a heavy umami line, using ideas from Japan, China, Singapore and elsewhere, as a tasting menu or a la carte from an open kitchen. The wine program has an extensive wine list. World's 50 Best ranked it 100th on Asia's Best Restaurants in that same year.
Wine Spectator awards and serious lists
Our guide counts four Wine Spectator Awards of Excellence citywide, including Ayà in Rockwell Center and Old Manila in Makati City. Sala in Makati runs a sommelier-led list with corkage allowed, and The Spirits Library in Poblacion, Makati holds an exceptional wine program.
Ayà
Ayà in Rockwell Center holds a Wine Spectator Award of Excellence and a Michelin Plate, both dated 2026. The lounge is the sister of Hapag in Makati and frames Filipino culture with small plates and cocktails in a bar-led room. The list is extensive, with craft cocktails and zero-proof drinks.
Old Manila
Old Manila in Makati City holds a Wine Spectator Award of Excellence and a Michelin Plate, both dated 2026. The room serves Filipino dishes and international cooking, a la carte, as a tasting menu or as a set menu, and looks over the hotel garden and pool. The wine program is sommelier-led, with an extensive wine list and a sake program.
The Spirits Library
The Spirits Library in Poblacion, Makati holds an exceptional wine program and an extensive wine list, with craft cocktails and food served a la carte or in small plates. The bar works in a speakeasy style, with rare spirits shelved floor to ceiling, live jazz and blues, and drinks made to order. World's 50 Best placed it at 98 on Asia's Best Bars for 2026.
Sala
Sala in Makati holds a Michelin Plate dated 2026. Scottish chef Colin Mackay opened the restaurant in 1997, and the kitchen cooks classic European dishes as a tasting menu, a la carte or prix fixe. The wine program is sommelier-led, with an extensive wine list, and corkage is allowed.
Tasting menus and counters
Tasting menus and counters in our guide include a Michelin star dated 2026 at Kása Palma in Poblacion, Makati, and Michelin Plates at The Test Kitchen in Rockwell and Goxo in Salcedo Village. Formats run from charcoal-grill counters to daily-changing dishes and omakase.
Kása Palma
Kása Palma in Poblacion, Makati holds a Michelin star dated 2026. French-trained chef Aaron Isip cooks with a wood fire. Lamps sit under straw cloches, and shells line the walls. Service covers a tasting menu, a la carte and counter dining. The wine program has craft cocktails. The Best Chef awarded the kitchen One Knife.
The Test Kitchen
The Test Kitchen in Rockwell holds a Michelin Plate dated 2026. Chef Josh Boutwood rewrites the tasting menu each day around three core components, and a la carte is offered too. The cooking is led by the ingredients. The wine program has an extensive wine list.
Goxo
Goxo in Salcedo Village holds a Michelin Plate dated 2026. Diners sit at a 12-seat counter while the kitchen cooks Basque food with Filipino accents on a charcoal grill, and the chef works with them directly. The meal is served as a prix fixe or a tasting menu.
12/10
12/10 in Makati holds a Michelin Plate dated 2026. This non-traditional Japanese izakaya serves omakase along with a la carte dishes and creative small plates. The flavors are playful and balanced. The wine program has craft cocktails and a sake program.
Planning FAQ
How many Michelin-starred restaurants are in Makati?
Our guide counts five Michelin-starred restaurants in Makati and five Michelin stars in total. Hapag, Celera and Helm sit in the Makati neighborhood, Inatô sits in Karrivin, and Kása Palma sits in Poblacion, Makati. The latest dated Michelin award on each is a star for 2026.
Which places hold Wine Spectator awards?
Four venues in our guide hold a Wine Spectator Award of Excellence, among them Hapag in Makati, Ayà in Rockwell Center and Old Manila in Makati City, with the award dated 2026. Hapag's program is sommelier-led. Ayà's list is extensive, with craft cocktails and zero-proof drinks. Old Manila's list is extensive and sommelier-led, with a sake program.
Which neighborhood holds the most venues in your guide?
The Makati neighborhood holds 22 venues in our guide, more than any other neighborhood in the city. Legazpi Village is the next neighborhood by venue count. Salcedo Village and Poblacion follow those two as further clusters of restaurants and bars.
Where are the tasting menus?
Tasting menus in our guide include Hapag, Helm and Celera in Makati, Kása Palma in Poblacion, Makati, The Test Kitchen in Rockwell, Goxo in Salcedo Village, and Tandem and Hálong in Legazpi Village. Sala, Mirèio and Benjarong in Makati, Old Manila in Makati City, Tadhana Makati in Bel-Air and 12/10 in Makati also serve a tasting menu or omakase. Tsukiji in Makati serves omakase as well.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
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Where to eat in Makati
Selected entries from the current guide for Makati.
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Celera
Celera earned a Michelin star in 2026, placing it among a small group of Makati restaurants that have reshaped the city's fine dining conversation. Located on the third floor of a building on Pablo Ocampo Sr. Extension in the Comunna district, it draws a loyal following that returns for the kind of cooking that rewards close attention. For serious diners, it belongs in the same planning window as Hapag and Helm.
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Helm
Helm brings Makati’s tasting-menu ambitions into sharper focus: a chef’s table format in Ayala Triangle Gardens with Michelin 1 Star recognition in 2026, La Liste’s 93-point score, and Tatler Best 20 Restaurants Philippines placement. The draw is not scale but concentration, placing international technique against Manila’s increasingly serious fine-dining conversation.
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Inatô
Inatô holds a 2026 Michelin star at The Alley at Karrivin in Makati, operating from an eight-seat marble counter that faces an open kitchen. The format is counter-only omakase, grounded in Filipino grilling culture and seasonal produce, with local and international ingredients reframed through Filipino technique. Advance reservations are strongly advised given the limited capacity.
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Kása Palma
Kása Palma holds a Michelin one-star distinction under chef Aaron Isip, operating from a side street in Makati's dense residential-commercial grid. The restaurant sits inside a growing cluster of serious Filipino kitchens that are reshaping how the city positions itself on international dining circuits. Address: 6042 R Palma, Makati City.
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Crosta
A small-format pizzeria in Salcedo Village where considered dough-making meets a wine list assembled for weekly discovery rather than occasion spending. Three collaborators with distinct backgrounds, ranging from dough obsession to Japanese precision to wine expertise, produce a short menu that moves from simple, balanced rounds to more complex toppings, closing with gelato. The seat count is limited and the format is direct.
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a mano
A mano brings handmade Italian cooking to Power Plant Mall in Rockwell Center, where pasta, risotto, and Neapolitan-influenced pizza are prepared from quality ingredients that would hold their own in any Italian kitchen. Founded by Amado Forés, the restaurant now operates across four locations in Metro Manila, with a menu that rewards both the first-time visitor and the regular ordering off-script.
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Hálong
Hálong is a Michelin Bib Gourmand-recognised restaurant on Gamboa Street in Makati's CBD, where the kitchen draws on Vietnamese culinary tradition within a city that has become one of Southeast Asia's most competitive dining destinations. The 2026 Bib Gourmand recognition signals serious cooking at accessible price points, placing it in a growing cohort of Makati restaurants earning international notice without the full-starred price bracket.
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La Pita
La Pita holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand (2026) recognition in Makati's Poblacion neighbourhood, placing it among a small tier of Philippine restaurants where value and quality align with international critical standards. The address on Don Pedro puts it at the centre of one of Metro Manila's most active dining streets, where casual-format restaurants increasingly earn the kind of attention once reserved for formal dining rooms.
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Lampara
A Michelin Bib Gourmand recipient tucked into a residential pocket of Poblacion, Lampara operates at the intersection of Filipino home-cooking tradition and considered modern technique. The address, a ground-floor unit on Enriquez Street in Brgy. Poblacion, places it squarely in Makati's most creatively charged dining neighbourhood, where the competition is serious and the standard for value is unusually high.
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Manam at the Triangle
Manam at the Triangle holds a 2026 Michelin Bib Gourmand, placing it among the Philippine capital's recognised addresses for accessible, quality-driven Filipino cooking. Located within the Ayala Triangle Walkways in Makati, the restaurant draws a consistent lunch and dinner crowd from the surrounding CBD. Book ahead, particularly for weekday evenings when the Ayala corridor fills quickly.
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Pilya's Kitchen
Pilya's Kitchen operates from The Grid food market inside Power Plant Mall, one of Makati's most concentrated dining floors. A 2026 Michelin Bib Gourmand recipient, it represents a broader shift in Philippine dining recognition, serious cooking delivered outside the white-tablecloth context. For visitors tracking Michelin-recognised Filipino food at accessible price points, it belongs on the same short list as Hapag and Helm.
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Sarsa
Sarsa in Makati is a contemporary Filipino restaurant offering generous, communal plates of classic Filipino fare. Signature dishes include kinilaw, lechon manok and turon a la mode. Recognized with a Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand and a Tripadvisor Travelers’ Choice award in 2025, Sarsa balances authentic flavors with excellent value. Expect warm, inviting textures—crisply charred skin, bright vinegar-citrus kinilaw, and caramelized banana with cold ice cream—served in a casual dining room with marbled tiles and rattan lamps. Ideal for shared lunches and relaxed dinners, Sarsa delivers approachable Filipino cuisine that feels both familiar and carefully prepared.
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Taquería Franco
Taquería Franco holds a 2026 Michelin Bib Gourmand, placing it among a small group of value-recognised addresses in Metro Manila. Located on San Agustin Street in Salcedo Village, the taquería brings Mexican street-format cooking to one of Makati's most cosmopolitan residential quarters. The Bib Gourmand designation signals cooking that punches above its price tier, the standard the guide reserves for serious kitchens that keep costs accessible.
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The Underbelly
The Underbelly holds a 2026 Michelin Bib Gourmand, a signal that serious cooking is happening on Chino Roces Ave Ext without the fine-dining price ceiling. The recognition places it in a small cohort of Makati addresses where critical attention and accessible pricing coexist. For anyone mapping the city's most credibly recognised dining options, it belongs on the shortlist.
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Your Local
Your Local holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand (2026) in Legazpi Village, Makati, placing it among a small cohort of Philippine restaurants recognised for quality at accessible prices. The address on Esteban puts it in one of the neighbourhood's quieter residential pockets, away from the louder commercial strips. It sits naturally alongside Makati's emerging generation of chef-led casual dining rooms.
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12/10
12/10 holds a Michelin Plate recognition in the 2026 guide, placing it within Makati's expanding tier of dining rooms that have earned formal international notice without yet crossing into the starred bracket. Located on Rockwell Drive, it operates in one of Metro Manila's most concentrated zones for serious restaurant investment, alongside Michelin-starred peers and a growing cohort of ingredient-focused kitchens.
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Aida's Chicken
Aida's Chicken holds a Michelin Plate recognition in the 2026 guide, placing it firmly within Makati's growing tier of neighbourhood restaurants earning international notice without the formal tasting-menu apparatus. The address is Makati City, Metro Manila, and the kitchen's focus on chicken as a central ingredient anchors it in a distinctly Filipino comfort register that the Michelin inspectors evidently found worth marking.
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Aurora
Aurora holds a Michelin Plate (2026) in the competitive Makati dining corridor, operating from the ground floor of the Pacific Star Building at the intersection of Makati Avenue and Sen. Gil J. Puyat Avenue. The address places it inside one of Metro Manila's most scrutinised restaurant precincts, where the Philippines' first Michelin Guide selections have reshaped expectations around what fine and serious casual dining looks like in the capital.
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Automat
Automat holds a Michelin Plate recognition (2026) and occupies the second floor of a building on Chino Roces Avenue in Makati, positioning it within the Philippine capital's growing tier of critically acknowledged restaurants. The name alone signals something about the dining proposition: a deliberate, almost mechanical precision applied to the act of eating. For the Makati dining scene, that kind of editorial restraint reads as a statement.
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Ayà
Ayà holds a 2026 Michelin Plate at Rockwell Center's Balmori Suites, placing it inside Makati's growing tier of recognised destination restaurants. The address puts it within reach of the district's most considered dining, with an atmosphere shaped by the residential calm of Hidalgo Drive. For the Makati dining circuit, it represents a credible next stop after the neighbourhood's Michelin-starred names.
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Benjarong
Benjarong at Dusit Thani Manila carries a 2026 Michelin Plate, placing it among a small cohort of recognised Thai dining rooms in the Philippines. Positioned inside one of Makati's established luxury hotels, it represents a formal register of Thai cuisine that sits apart from the city's predominantly Filipino fine-dining circuit. For travellers seeking a credentialed alternative to the neighbourhood's tasting-menu scene, it earns a considered look.
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Where to go for a drink in Makati
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Fat Cat
Fat Cat occupies the second floor of Makati Square in Legazpi Village, placing it within one of Metro Manila's most active dining corridors. The venue draws a local crowd that returns on habit rather than occasion, a reliable signal in a neighborhood where competition is sharp and novelty cycles fast. For visitors working through the Makati dining scene, it reads as a lived-in alternative to the area's more formal tables.
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ITO
ITO occupies the ground floor of a Legazpi Village address that has become a reference point for seasonal Filipino cocktail culture in Makati. Named in Tatler Asia-Pacific's Best Bars list and awarded Best Innovation 2025 and Best Service 2026, the bar structures its program around cocktail flights that move through indigenous ingredients by season. The approach places it in a different tier from Makati's broader bar scene.
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The Spirits Library
The Spirits Library on Guerrero Street in Makati draws on the cocktail culture of the 1920s and 1930s, when Manila sat at a crossroads of Asian and Western drinking traditions. The bar houses a collection of spirits, bar books, and vintage glassware, with each drink framed around a specific historical moment. It is one of Makati's more considered options for anyone interested in spirits beyond the pour.
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Commune Café + Bar + Roastery
Commune Café + Bar + Roastery sits on Polaris Street in Poblacion, Makati's most concentrated pocket of independent bars and all-day spaces. The triple format, café, bar, and in-house roastery, positions it in a growing tier of venues where coffee craft and cocktail programming share equal billing. It draws a crowd that moves between morning espresso and late-evening drinks without changing address.
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Lit
Lit occupies a ground-floor address in Serendra, BGC's retail and dining corridor, positioning itself within a Makati-adjacent bar scene that has grown increasingly serious about craft. The venue draws from the broader Metro Manila movement toward technically disciplined cocktail programs, where what happens behind the bar carries as much weight as the room around it.
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Makati Shangri-La
Makati occupies a defining position along the Ayala Avenue corridor, where the business district's architecture and hospitality converge at the upper end of the market. The property sits within the CBD's most concentrated stretch of five-star addresses, making it a reference point for visitors calibrating where Makati's luxury hotel scene sets its standard. For those moving between the financial district and Greenbelt, the location is a practical anchor as much as a destination.
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