The best tasting food you will find in the best restaurants in Cebu

The Best Lechón at Rico’s Lechón

Located on Highway 77, Talamban in Cebu City, is Rico’s Lechon, a restaurant where you will find the most delicious and flavorful lechon (roasted pork) in the country.

It’s so good that its rich and wealthy residents order it, fly and enjoy it in Manila. This is no surprise to anyone because the entire pig is slow roasted over an even layer of open charcoal to ensure it is completely browned when done. Its glistening skin is fantastically crunchy. Nearby people hear the crunch when you bite into it.

Lechon Cebu at Rico’s Lechon is prepared with green onions, locally mined sea salt, organic lemongrass, bell peppers, and other home-grown herbs and spices, giving it a complete flavor unto itself that requires no sauce or gravy, just unlike the traditional Philippine lechon.

Crispy Pata at Alejandro’s Filipino Resto

It is known as the most popular and delicious Crispy Pata (fried pork thigh) in all of Cebu. It must be Alejandro’s in the Centro Comercial Century Plaza on Calle Juana Osmeña, after all, it has been serving this and satisfying customers for the last 20 years. There is no denying its amazing taste and flavor. It’s crisp and crunchy on the outside and cottony soft on the inside, it almost melts in your mouth.

Tuna panga at STK Ta Bai at Paolito’s Seafood House

While serving several types of seafood dishes, Paolito’s Seafood House on Orchid Street in Cebu is truly famous for its Tuna Panga (grilled tuna jaw). It is served directly from the coal pit, still steaming and with a delicious smell of the special herbs and spices with which it is prepared. It is a gastronomic delight not to be missed when in Cebu. Adding to enjoying the restaurant’s culinary variety is its kind of old-fashioned vibe that comes from this old ancestral home turned favorite dining spot.

Abuhan Dos Restaurant and its memorable Pochero

With 3 branches to its name in Cebu, Abuhan Dos restaurant becomes accessible for many customers to enjoy the dish for which they have become famous: Pochero. The pochero is a pork stew of Spanish origin. It is cooked with Spanish sausages, lots of chopped onion and tomatoes, vegetables, special plantains, sweet potato fries, chickpeas and a bit of pepper. Abuhan two restaurant gives it its magic touch and you have a great dish that everyone loves.