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First Look: Mada Brings Hard-To-Find Filipino Pastries to Collingwood

First Look: Mada Brings Hard-To-Find Filipino Pastries to Collingwood

Pastry chef Marishell Evangelista’s in-demand coffee van gets a permanent shop serving buttery, salty-sweet ensaymadas in flavours like ube, yema and pan de coco.

First Look: New Filipino CBD Restaurant Enelssie Keeps It Traditional

First Look: New Filipino CBD Restaurant Enelssie Keeps It Traditional

While there are plenty of places that get creative with Filipino flavours, owner Anthony Herrera prefers to cook the food his grandparents made.

First Look: Filipino Pop-Up Palay Moves to Fitzroy for Good

First Look: Filipino Pop-Up Palay Moves to Fitzroy for Good

Open from brunch to dinner, the restaurant already has a following for its house-made banana ketchup and pandesal, a soft, semi-sweet bread roll.

First Look: Pecks Road Leads to “Filipino Banh Mi” and Triple-Ube Doughnuts

First Look: Pecks Road Leads to “Filipino Banh Mi” and Triple-Ube Doughnuts

The dough for the family-run spot’s fluffy, yeasted doughnuts takes three days to make. “I watch it like a hawk to know exactly when to fry,” says co-owner Albin Lawang.

First Look: Takam 2.0 Brings “Filipino Food Forward” With Native Ingredients and a Star Team

First Look: Takam 2.0 Brings “Filipino Food Forward” With Native Ingredients and a Star Team

It’s a new era for the Darlinghurst diner with Ralph Libo-On and Michael Mabuti of groundbreaking Melbourne diner Askal signing on for a refreshed fit-out and cocktail program. But the signature coal-roasted lemongrass chicken isn’t going anywhere.

Hampton’s Kalye Marinas Introduces Melbourne to the Filipino Seafood Boil

Hampton’s Kalye Marinas Introduces Melbourne to the Filipino Seafood Boil

“We wanted to bring something new to the Melbourne scene with something that had significance to us.”