Eating Out

Filipino

Bojol Grill
CPG Ave. Tagbilaran City

Café Lawis
Poblacion, Dauis, Bohol
(+63-38)502-3141
(+63-38)502-3016
A premier coffee and snack shop located at the back of the Dauis Church in Poblacion, Dauis, Café Lawis lets you indulge in innovative food that is uniquely Dauisanon and Boholano like ube pandesal and pork humba panini. Among their bestsellers and must-try food is the Ube Panini Sandwich. Because Bohol has an abundant supply of ube (locally known as Kinampay), most delicacies from this province feature Ube as a main ingredient such as the Ube Calamay and Ube Jam.

Chicken Ati-Atihan
Ma. Clara St.,Tagbilaran,City
(+63-38)501-9963
A unique and flexible dining restaurant, Chicken Ati-Atihan has become of a must-go dining spot because of their finest grilled chicken in Bohol. They live with their motto: “We didn’t invent chicken barbeque, we perfected it just for you.” More than their bestseller, the restaurant offers a variety of Filipino dishes with very reasonable prices. Its very “pinoy-like” ambiance lets diners can enjoy the feel-at-home experience, and indulge in the consistency of every cooked recipe.

Crab House
Mansasa Seaside, Tagbilaran City
(+63-38)500 3588
Heritage Crab House Seafoods Restaurant, popularly known as Crab House, is located in Mansasa Seaside, Tagbilaran City. Specializing in seafood offerings, it serves mud or blue crab, shrimp, squid, slipper lobsters, abalone and scalope delicacies. The restaurant has spacious dining area, with antiques highlighting as decorations. Nightly band performance adds to the quality service that the restaurant offers, complementing a sumptuous dinner with good music. Crab House also offers buffet lunch and dinner for an affordable price. It also has a function hall for live-in or live-out seminars.

Dong Juan Restaurant
Galleria Luisa, Gallares St.,Tagbilaran City

Doy’s
J. Borja St.,Tagbilaran City
(+63-38)501-8724

Gerarda’s
30 J.S. Torralba St.,Tagbilaran City
(+63-38)412-3044
Inside a historic family house with antiques, polished floorboards, sparkling cutlery and ambient jazz lies a restaurant that serves Filipino food with a twist. What sets Gerarda’s apart is its sheer confidence about the quality of its food – you don’t have to pay for it if you don’t like it. Associated with Alison’s Seafood Park chain, Gerarda’s provides an idyllic gastronomic experience that pays homage to Filipino cuisine.

Golden Cowrie
V.P. Inting St., Tagbilaran City
(+63-38)411-0323
A dining spot that embodies modern Filipino dishes, Golden Cowrie is best known for its quality native cuisine available at affordable prices. Every meal experience is complemented by prompt, accurate, and efficient service in a clean, convenient, and comfortable restaurant venue, meant to evoke festivity and the comforting nostalgia of Sunday lunches with loved ones.

JJ’s Seafood Village
K of C Drive, Tagbilaran City
(+63-38)411-3756
JJ’s Seafood Village not only satisfies your tummy with its variety of delectable offerings, but provides a feast for your eyes as well. Experience the romantic overlooking view of Tagbilaran City Bay, relax and enjoy the sunset while enjoying a great selection of tasty dishes. They also cater to different events and occasions such as wedding reception, meeting, seminars, parties and other special events with the best facilities and amenities that will surely meet your expected hotel accommodations.

Originally created with the Cebuano eaters in mind, this resto chain has become a striking addition to Bohol’s handful of dining choices. Dong Juan lets you choose from a selection of all-time Filipino favorites with their own twist: gourmet burgers, pizza, pasta, steaks and seafood fritters. Its warm, minimalist, yet homey environment makes it a perfect spot for hangouts, romantic dates, birthday parties, family parties and other special events.

Payag Restaurant
18 CPG East Ave., Tagbilaran City/ BQ Mall Branches
(+63-38) 501-7852
Built inside a Spanish-styled house, Payag Restaurant may look big and imposing with its wooden structure, but it’s actually warm and inviting inside. Known for its home-style cooking served at affordable prices with friendly and accommodating staff, Payag serves signature dishes such as Pork Barbecue, Buko Halo Special, Pancit Macao, and other classic Filipino favorites. What’s more, everything is freshly prepared using the finest cuts of chicken, pork and freshest vegetables.

Jovings By The Sea
Wharf Road, Tagbilaran City
(+63-38)411-3684
(+63-38)411-3625

Just Sizzlin’
CPG East Avenue, Poblacion 3
(+63-38)412-0902
Located just a few meters away from the busy streets of Tagbilaran City, Just Sizzlin’ serves a wide variety of well-loved meals including pastas, burgers, fries, salads, desserts, rice meals, beverages and many others. Designed to satisfy the customers, it provides a relaxing ambiance and offers free appetizers such as kropek while waiting for food to arrive.

Mang Inasal
Borja St. / Gallares St. Branches Tagbilaran City
(+63-38)412-7071
“The more the many-er,” is Mang Inasal’s motto. As the Philippine’s fastest growing barbeque fast food chain, it serves chicken, pork barbeque and other Filipino favorites. Currently, there are 445 branches nationwide, including in Bohol, sharing one goal: to serve guests delightful meals.

Miravilla Seafood Restaurant
Booy District, Tagbilaran City
(+63-38)411-3867

MR Seafood Restaurant
Wharf Road, Tagbilaran City

Prawn Farm Grill & Seafoods
Level 2, Island City Mall
(+63-38)501-6267
(+63-38)411-5084
Another popular food destination in Bohol is the Prawn Farm Grill and Seafoods, which offers an upscale dining experience inside Island City Mall, one of the biggest shopping malls in the province. Fresh seafood choices including crabs, prawns and fishes are usually displayed at the restaurant’s entrance, mostly from own produce of fishponds owned by the same company managing the restaurant. Buffet lunch and dinner is available during Saturdays. Rate for adults is Php 325.00, Php 165.00 for kids and Php 105.00 for toddlers, all with one round of iced tea.

Persona Mesa
J.A. Clarin Street, Cogon District ,Tagbilaran City
(+63-38)411-1113
Proving that Bohol is a gastronomic haven for all types of preferences, a fine dining restaurant – Persona Mesa – is also available for those looking at a more sophisticated ambience and exquisite cuisine. Formerly known as That’s Aroma, the restaurant has been renovated to cater to all food lovers. Best known for its delectable dishes, the restaurant is also popular for its relaxing setting – it even offers an outside area for those who want to dine al fresco.

Saya’s Restaurant
CPG East Ave., Tagbilaran City
(+63-38)411-3042
For those looking for budget-friendly yet deliciously good and authentic Filipino delicacies, Saya’s Restaurant is the place for you. For as low as P85 to P110, one can already savor the finest dishes and other enticing specialties of Bohol. Inside the restaurant, people can enjoy their great-tasting food because of the nice, cozy, and casual feel all over the dining area. What’s more, service is fast and very efficient, making sure that the customers do not wait too long for their food and orders.

STK (Sugba, Tula, Kilaw) Foodhaus
Ma. Clara St. Corner Graham Avenue, Tagbilaran City
Highly recommended especially for local and foreign tourists, sugba, tula and kilaw is a native signature dish in Bohol and Cebu. STK Foodhaus lets you experience this one-of-a-kind offering: for sugba (grilled), choose from pork, fish, squid, and chicken; for kilaw, indulge in fresh or raw food marinated in an acid-based dressing or sauce like vinegar or calamansi; and tula (tinola), a soup-based dish, usually chicken, that is cooked with ginger.

Asian

Buzz Café
Upper Ground Flr., Island City Mall/ Galleria Luisa Branches
(+63-38)411-4430
(+63-38)501-7819
The Buzz Cafe is the restaurant outlet of Bohol Bee Farm, offering delicious and nutritious organic food. This quaint dining spot is known for its natural and organically grown offerings that includes pure honey, honey spread, honey mustard salad dressing, herb bread (a favorite among foreign visitors), kamote bread (preferred by Filipinos), squash muffins, gumamela hot tea, vegetable lasagna, brewed coffee from roasted corn, honeyed halo-halo, and spicy flower salad.

Café Atanacio
Bohol Tropics Resort, Tagbilaran City
(+63-38)411-3510
A stone’s throw away from the scenic Tagbilaran harbor is an open-air restaurant called Café Atanacio. Business and leisure travelers can indulge in a full view of the passing sea vessels while enjoying an international cuisine. Dining is made more fun with an invigorating view of the waters and further, the idyllic Panglao Island on the southeastern side and the mountain ranges of mainland Bohol on the northern side. At twilight, diners are afforded with a magical sight as lights flicker from fishermen’s boats.

Garden Café
JS Torralba St., Tagbilaran City
(+63-38)411-3701
(+63-38)411-2028
Garden Café is a fun cowboy-themed restaurant, known for employing deaf waiters and chefs. The menu – which includes a beginner’s guide to sign language – is chock-full of good ol’ Yankee fare, from fried chicken to onion rings and burgers. Upstairs, choose your order and dial it straight through to the kitchen from tableside phones as you enjoy the kitschy Wild West decor. Don’t be surprised if this restaurant is very quite as 70% of the servers in Garden Cafe are deaf-mute. You can order by doing sign language or writing down your choices on a piece of paper. This is a social enterprise run by IDEAS Philippines, a non-profit organization supporting the deaf-mute community.

Gerry’s Grill
4th Level, BQ Mall
(+63-38)411-3164
This bar-resto, which is also popular in Manila, offers a menu packed with scrumptious food ranging from Grilled Seafood, Filipino and Asian favorites and tastefully prepared beermates and Pica-Pica. For a full meal with the family or for a night out with friends, Gerry’s offers the perfect place with the perfect menu to fit any occasion at a reasonable budget. Gerry’s provides its diners with an ambiance that is perfect for a typical get together. Its inviting place attracts the dining and the family crowd alike.

Geuseppe Italian Pizzaria and Sicilian Roast Italian Restaurant
Tawala, Panglao, Bohol
(+63-38)510-1217
Savor authentic Italian cuisine in this restaurant. It offers stone baked pizzas. Must try are their wide choices of pasta and wines.

Tarsier Paprika (Herbs & Spices Restaurant Inside Tarsier Botanika Park)
Km. 16 Hoyohoy, Tawala, Panglao, Bohol
(+63-38)510-8472
09175266001
French-inspired fine dining restaurant with a beautiful view of the ocean.

International

Asiatika
Metro Centre Hotel, Tagbilaran City
(+63-38)411-5875
Dubbed as the “home of oriental cuisine,” Asiatika Restaurant serves an eclectic mix of Korean, Thai, Japanese and Chinese, and of course, Filipino food. Located on the first floor of the Metro Hotel, the restaurant is a must-go place for those craving for Asian taste, with every delectable dish worth a try.

Chico’s Café
Inside Dao Diamond Hotel
(+63-38)411-5568
(+63-38)235-5836
Chico’s Café, which got its name from the sweet cinnamon tasting fruit, literally houses a chico tree inside the restaurant. Greeting diners with its distinct aroma, the iconic tree is enclosed in a beautiful structure of natural wood, bamboo, reeds, and grass mats. A perfect place to start your day, Chico’s Café serves local and international breakfast meals from 6:00AM to 10:00AM. The chefs and kitchen crew, who are all former graduates from the deaf schools that the hotel supports, are well-trained and skilled with many years of experience.

JJ’s Dimsum Restaurant
CPG Ave., Tagbilaran City
(+63-38) 411-3306
When craving for dimsum in Bohol, the must-go place is JJ’s Dimsum Restaurant. Relish on its wide selection of Chinese cuisine, and try their bestselling siomai, siopao and pancit. Dim sum, which literally means to touch your heart, is inherent on each plate of dumplings, noodles, spicy foods, steamed dishes and lots more. Have a taste also of their Fish Fillet with sweet and sour sauce, Pata Tim with Fried Bread and Bird’s Nest with Quail Eggs.

Rai-Rai Ken
Upper Ground Flr., Island City Mall
(+63-38) 501-7845
Built for sushi and ramen lovers, Rai-Rai Ken serves appetizing Japanese meals in a complete package. Its bento meals are popular among diners, as it offers a variety of food options in one meal. More than its signature bento, ramen and sushi, Rai Rai Ken is also known for its rice meals cooked with that authentic and distinct Japanese taste.

Shiang Ma Nou
Gallares St., Tagbilaran City
(+63-38) 501-0076
(+63-38) 411 4373
Shiang Ma Nou is a trendy new Chinese place near the Knights of Columbus (K of C) church. While it gives off a typical Chinese restaurant vibe from its ambience, menu and even the glassed kitchen, Shiang Ma Nou is unmistakably local – it offers a unique Bohol interpretation of Chinese food.

Fastfoods

Chowking
2nd Flr., Island City Mall
Tagbilaran City

Greenwich Pizza Pasta
Plaza Marcela (+63-38)411-4113
Island City Mall (+63-38)411-5185
Tagbilaran City

Jollibee
Alturas (+63-38)411-4329
Island City Mall (+63-38)411-2550
Plaza Marcela (+63-38)411-4113
Tagbilaran city

KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken)
Upper Ground Flr., Island City Mall
Tagbilaran City

Mc Donald’s
Ground Levels, BQ Mall
Tagbilaran City

Pizza Hut
BQ Mall, CPG Entrance
Tagbilaran City

Shakey’s
Ground Floor, City Square
Tagbilaran City