Restaurants, hotels, bars and wineries in Manila from the En Primeur Club guide.
Accolades in Manila
Txanton and M Dining + Bar, both in Makati, carry exceptional sommelier-led wine programs with extensive lists and tasting menus. Barcino Wine Resto and Bar in Manila keeps an extensive wine list.
Txanton in Makati is a Spanish jamón and wine bar, the Philippines' first and only jamonería, serving Jamón Ibérico through small plates, a la carte, and a tasting menu under chef Justo Rodrigo Lopez. The wine program is exceptional and sommelier-led, with an exceptional 3,000-bottle wine collection. The restaurant holds a Michelin Plate for 2026.
M Dining + Bar in Makati serves modern European cooking with Asian influences under chef Tom Bascon, on an a la carte menu and a tasting menu. The wine program is exceptional and sommelier-led, with an extensive wine list and an exceptional gin and whiskey collection. It holds a 2026 Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence.
Barcino Wine Resto and Bar in Manila is a Spanish tapas and wine bar with an extensive wine list, alongside craft cocktails. The menu is a la carte and small plates. Opinionated About Dining named it Recommended in its Top Restaurants in Asia for 2026.
iai in Bonifacio Global City and Locavore in Pasay hold a Michelin Plate for 2026, and Cabel in San Miguel holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand for 2026. iai serves omakase at the counter, Locavore serves modern Filipino a la carte and small plates, and Cabel serves heritage cooking from Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao.
iai in Bonifacio Global City serves sushi kappo omakase that uses Filipino seafood and ingredients, at an acacia chef's counter. The formats are omakase, a tasting menu, and counter dining. Its wine program has an extensive wine list. The restaurant holds a Michelin Plate for 2026 and The Best Chef One Knife award for 2025.
Locavore in Pasay cooks modern Filipino food with French techniques, including sizzling sinigang and adobo octopus paella, served a la carte and as small plates. The drinks include craft cocktails. It holds a Michelin Plate for 2026. Opinionated About Dining ranked it #246 among Top Restaurants in Asia for 2024. Ray Adriansyah and Eelke Plasmeijer run the kitchen.
Cabel in San Miguel serves Filipino heritage cooking from Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao, with a focus on southern Mindanao. The restaurant serves an a la carte menu and craft cocktails. It holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand for 2026.
Makati holds Txanton and M Dining + Bar, both with exceptional wine programs. Txanton keeps an exceptional 3,000-bottle wine collection on a sommelier-led list, with a tasting menu. M Dining + Bar has an exceptional sommelier-led program, an extensive wine list, and a 2026 Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence.
Our guide counts no Michelin-starred restaurants in Manila. Michelin recognition in our guide includes a Plate at Txanton in Makati, iai in Bonifacio Global City, and Locavore in Pasay, and a Bib Gourmand at Cabel in San Miguel.
Tasting menus in our guide are at M Dining + Bar in Makati, Txanton in Makati, and iai in Bonifacio Global City. M Dining + Bar offers a tasting menu beside a la carte modern European cooking with Asian influences. Txanton offers a tasting menu beside small plates and a la carte Spanish jamón service. iai offers a tasting menu as sushi kappo omakase with counter dining.
M Dining + Bar in Makati holds a Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence for 2026, with an exceptional sommelier-led wine program and an extensive wine list. Citywide, our guide counts two Best of Award of Excellence awards and two Award of Excellence awards.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
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Cabel sits on Jose Laurel Street in San Miguel, Manila, carrying a 2026 Michelin Bib Gourmand, the guide's marker for cooking that punches above its price point. The address places it inside one of the capital's older, more historically layered districts, away from the polished restaurant corridors of BGC and Makati. For Manila's Filipino food scene, it represents the kind of neighbourhood anchor the Bib Gourmand category was designed to recognise.
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On the third floor of an office building along Chino Roces Avenue, M Dining + Bar M has built a quiet reputation in Makati's serious-dining corridor. Chef Tom Bascon leads an Asian fusion program that has earned consecutive Opinionated About Dining recognition since 2023, climbing from Highly Recommended to a ranked position among Asia's notable tables. Sunday closure and split-service hours signal a kitchen that operates on its own terms.
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A Basque-inflected Spanish restaurant on the second floor of a Makati commercial building, Txanton holds a Michelin Plate (2026) and has climbed the Opinionated About Dining Asia rankings two consecutive years, reaching #339 in 2024 and #377 in 2025. Under chef Justo Rodrigo Lopez, it represents one of Manila's most considered arguments for the asador tradition outside of the Iberian Peninsula.
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Barcino Wine Resto and Bar brings Spanish small-plates dining into Manilla’s social restaurant circuit, where the table matters as much as the individual plate. Its 2026 Asia Recommended recognition places it on the radar for travellers tracking the city’s international dining range rather than only Filipino or Chinese anchors.
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Blackbird Makati holds a Michelin Plate (2026) and an Opinionated About Dining ranking among Asia's top casual international restaurants. Chef Colin McKay leads the kitchen at this Makati Avenue address, where the international menu draws steady local and visiting attention.
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El Poco Cantina on Estrada Street brings a Michelin Plate recognition (2026) to Malate, one of Manila's oldest and most layered dining neighbourhoods. The cantina format fits naturally into a district where Spanish colonial memory and Filipino street culture have coexisted for generations. For visitors and locals tracking the city's recognised dining circuit, it occupies a distinct position on the south side of the bay area.
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iai holds a Michelin Plate recognition (2026) and sits within BGC's most serious fine-dining tier, where Chef Bruce Ricketts has built one of Manila's more considered tasting counter formats.
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Locavore at S'Maison in Pasay City sits at the more ambitious end of Manila's creative cuisine tier, earning a Michelin Plate in 2026 and an Opinionated About Dining ranking among Asia's top 250 restaurants in 2024. The kitchen operates under Ray Adriansyah and Eelke Plasmeijer, two names associated with the original Locavore in Bali that reshaped regional fine dining. It is one of the more internationally credentialed tables in Metro Manila.
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At Manam Comfort Filipino, beloved classics meet refined innovation, inviting informed diners to savor the soul of the Philippines through a polished, contemporary lens. Signature dishes—like sinigang with a bracingly bright tamarind depth, and crisp, golden lumpia with delicate aromatics—arrive thoughtfully plated, balancing nostalgia with culinary finesse. The ambiance, warm and sophisticated, pairs natural textures with artful lighting, setting the stage for relaxed indulgence and convivial celebration. Here, each course feels both familiar and refreshingly new, guided by attentive service, an astute beverage program with local spirits, and a measured sense of occasion. Manam is where heritage and modernity converge, creating a distinctly Filipino experience for the cosmopolitan palate.
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Admiral Club Manila Bay belongs to the Roxas Boulevard side of Manila dining, where sea-facing hotel rooms, heritage addresses, and cross-city traffic shape the meal as much as the kitchen. With no public awards, chef, price, or menu format listed, it is better read through location and occasion: a Manila Bay address for diners weighing Malate atmosphere against Makati polish or resort-style dining elsewhere in the city.
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Agni by Mantra brings Indian cooking into Manila’s dining conversation through spice structure rather than spectacle. With no public awards, chef billing, or price band attached, the useful read is contextual: this is a Manila Indian address to assess by how carefully it handles tempering, heat, acidity, and the balance between richness and lift.
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Breezes sits in Tambo, Parañaque, a part of Metro Manila where airport traffic, bay-adjacent hotels, and resort-style dining create a different rhythm from Makati or BGC. Treat it as a context-driven Manila stop: useful for readers comparing waterside, hotel-adjacent, and destination-leaning restaurants rather than chasing chef-led tasting-menu credentials.
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Café Ilang-Ilang suits Manila diners who want range over ritual: an all-day hotel restaurant format where Filipino, Asian, and Western cooking sit under one roof. Its value is less about chef-led theatre than sourcing breadth, buffet discipline, and the Manila Hotel setting, a useful choice for groups whose appetites rarely agree.
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Circles Event Café sits in Makati, where hotel dining often doubles as business dining, family gathering, and international buffet culture in one room. The appeal is less about chef-led spectacle than about Manila’s appetite for flexible, all-day hotel restaurants: broad choice, central access, and a format built for mixed groups.
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A practical pick for Hong Kong dim sum in Ermita when the group wants casual, walk-in-friendly dining at a $$ price point. Go for baked BBQ pork buns, prawn dumplings, steamed egg cake, and other shared plates; skip it if the occasion calls for a quiet room, tasting menu, or chef-led destination dinner.
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Occupying 32 all-suite floors in the heart of Makati's financial district, Raffles Makati sits at the smaller, more deliberate end of Manila's luxury hotel market. A 2025 World Travel Awards winner for Philippines' Leading Boutique Hotel and Forbes 4-Star rated, it pairs private butler service with access to Fairmont Makati's broader facilities, an arrangement that suits business and leisure travellers who want intimacy without sacrifice.
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Restaurants Spices and Old Manila draw food-focused travellers alongside a business clientele, while the spa's Hilot treatments and a BMW 7 Series airport fleet signal the operational register throughout.
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A 30-level tower in Makati's financial district, Fairmont Makati pairs 280 contemporary rooms with one of the city's most considered wellness programs. The 13,000-square-foot Willow Stream Spa, an outdoor pool deck, and shared access to Raffles Makati's storied Long Bar and Writers Bar make this a strong anchor for business and leisure travelers alike.
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Sitting on Manila Bay's Entertainment City strip, Okada Manila is a 993-room integrated resort with a 15,069-square-foot villa tier, Southeast Asia's largest entertainment dome, and a dancing water feature spanning the equivalent of 50 Olympic swimming pools. Ranked 98 points on La Liste's Top Hotels 2026 list, the property operates at a scale that few competitors in the Philippine capital attempt. It earned the informal designation 'Manila's Grand Icon' before its first decade was complete.
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Marco Polo Ortigas Manila sits 24 floors above the Ortigas Center business district, holding a 2026 La Liste Top Hotels score of 90 points and Star Wine List recognition. Its 316 rooms span 19 floors with views toward Rizal province and Laguna Lake, and its Continental Club suites include personal butler service, afternoon tea, and rooftop lounge access.
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Hotel Okura Manila at Newport World Resorts carries the MICHELIN Selected distinction for 2025, placing it among a small cohort of Manila hotels recognised by the guide for accommodation quality. Located at 2 Portwood St within the Newport World Resorts complex in Pasay, it brings the disciplined service traditions of the Okura brand to one of the city's most concentrated entertainment and hospitality precincts.
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Positioned along Manila Bay at the edge of Entertainment City in Parañaque, Nüwa Manila at City of Dreams occupies a distinct tier among the Philippine capital's luxury hotels: a dual-tower property with 254 rooms, suites, and butler-served villas, integrated into a resort complex that includes a casino, spa, and international dining.
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Discovery Primea Manila occupies a composed position on Ayala Avenue in Makati, operating 141 rooms within the CBD's upper tier of address-driven hotels. For stays oriented around the Makati financial district, it offers a more contained alternative to the area's larger convention-scale properties.
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Discovery Suites Manila occupies a prominent address in Ortigas Center, Pasig, with 220 rooms configured as extended-stay suites suited to long-haul business travel and family relocations. The property sits within Metro Manila's secondary CBD, offering an alternative base to the Makati corridor for travellers whose schedules revolve around the ADB Avenue business cluster.
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Occupying a prime Ayala Center address in Makati, Dusit Thani Manila is one of the Philippine capital's most established full-scale city hotels, with 466 rooms placing it firmly in the large-footprint tier alongside Conrad Manila and Makati. Its central location makes it a practical base for both business and leisure travelers working the Makati CBD, with the Ayala commercial district immediately accessible on foot.
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Set within City of Dreams Manila's Entertainment City complex in Parañaque, the Hyatt Regency sits close enough to Ninoy Aquino International Airport to carry the airport hotel label, yet its warm timber interiors, Manila Bay views, and seventh-floor Club Lounge place it in a different category from transit accommodation. Guests booking Club rooms or Aqua Suites get the stronger end of what this address can offer.
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Nobu Hotel Manila brings Nobu Matsuhisa's Japanese-Peruvian fusion framework to the City of Dreams Manila complex in Parañaque, pairing a 250-foot outdoor pool, a full-service spa with traditional Filipino massage techniques, and rooms dressed in Japanese calligraphy art with direct access to one of Metro Manila's largest casino and entertainment precincts.
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Admiral Hotel Manila – MGallery holds the Country Winner award for Luxury Boutique Hotel, placing it in a distinct tier among Manila's accommodation options. Positioned on Roxas Boulevard in Malate, it offers a design-led alternative to the large-footprint international properties concentrated in Makati. For travellers prioritising character and scale over convention-hotel infrastructure, the Admiral is the reference address on Manila Bay.
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Conrad Manila occupies a waterfront position in the Mall of Asia Complex in Pasay City, with architecture that mirrors the curves of Manila Bay's sailing traffic and a collection of roughly 700 artworks spread across the property. The hotel's dining anchor is China Blue by Jereme Leung, a celebrity chef format that draws consistently strong crowds.
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Grand Hyatt Manila holds a Michelin Selected distinction for 2025, placing it in a verified tier of Manila's premium hotel accommodation. Positioned in Bonifacio Global City at the corner of 8th Avenue and 35th Street, the property operates at the scale and address that defines BGC's upper hospitality bracket. For travellers calibrating Manila options, it sits alongside Conrad and Fairmont in the city's international luxury cohort.
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At the intersection of Ayala Avenue and Makati Avenue, the 's 696 recently renovated rooms occupy a position at the summit of Makati's business-district hotel tier. The grand staircase, live orchestral music in the lobby, and Horizon Club access define the arrival experience. Shang Palace's dim sum, hilot massage at the spa, and halal-certified kitchens round out a property built for both corporate and leisure stays.
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The Manila Marriott Hotel at Newport World Resorts sits at the centre of one of the Philippine capital's most self-contained entertainment districts, earning Michelin Selected recognition in 2025. The property positions itself within the integrated resort corridor at Resorts Drive, placing guests within walking distance of casinos, performance venues, and dining without leaving the complex. It offers a large-format international hotel experience with loyalty infrastructure through Marriott Bonvoy.
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Mövenpick Manila Bay Westside belongs to Manila’s bay-side hotel conversation, where large-format resort districts, casino-adjacent stays, and business-city alternatives compete for different kinds of travellers. With limited public venue data available, the useful reading is comparative: assess it against Manila Bay, Makati, BGC, and Newport options rather than treating it as a standalone fantasy.
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Few addresses in Southeast Asia carry the historical weight of The Manila Hotel, which has occupied its position at the edge of Rizal Park since 1912. Where newer luxury entrants in Makati and BGC compete on design and amenity counts, this property competes on continuity, as the backdrop to more than a century of Philippine political, cultural, and social history. For travellers who read a city through its institutions, it remains a primary reference point.
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On Legazpi Street in Makati, The Curator has held a place in Asia's Best Bars rankings every year since 2016, peaking at #16 and sitting at #78 in 2025. Open from early morning through the small hours most nights, it operates as both a serious coffee address and a recognised cocktail bar, a dual identity that reflects its role in the neighbourhood rather than a single-category pitch.
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Oto is a Poblacion bar in Makati that earned a place on Asia's 50 Best Bars list in 2019, ranking #47. The bar sits in the specialist tier of Manila's cocktail scene, where back-bar depth and format discipline define the experience.
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Ranked #399 in the Top 500 Bars globally (2025) and a two-time Asia's 50 Best Bars entrant, The Back Room operates from the The Fort in Bonifacio Global City as one of Manila's most consistently recognised cocktail programs. It sits in the same conversation as The Curator and Oto among the capital's serious bar addresses.
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A Malate institution on Bocobo Street, Oarhouse Pub sits inside Manila's oldest bar district, where neighbourhood drinking culture runs deeper than the city's newer cocktail scenes. The pub format places it in a different register from Makati's technical bar programs, offering a more grounded, familiar kind of hospitality that regulars in this part of the city have been returning to for years.
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On Remedios Street in Malate, Super 6 Grille House, known locally as Payong-Payong, occupies a stretch of Manila that has long hosted the city's after-dark crowd. The venue draws a mix of locals and visitors to its grille-focused format in one of the capital's most historically charged neighbourhoods. For travellers moving through Manila's dining and bar scene, it represents the Malate tradition of informal, convivial eating.
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