Dining

One of the newer dining establishments in Corner Brook, a city in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, is a Filipino-Canadian fusion restaurant.

Filipinos love street food.

Karon Liu is a Toronto-based food reporter with the Toronto Star.

Vancouver’s Chinatown is probably one area where one would not expect a Filipino restaurant that especializes in noodles.

Following the success of its first British Columbia (BC) opening in February, the iconic burger brand Jollibee is slated to open two more locations in BC by end of 2022.

You could not blame Vancouverites for breaking into the song “What’s the buzz, tell me what’s happening….” on Friday, February 25, 2022, when they woke up to a long and noisy crowd forming on Granville Street, one of the main arteries of the city.

Toronto alternative weekly NOW Magazine expects Filipino food to get “even more popular” as one of four major food trends happening this year.

On March 1 this year, Canadian Filipino Net reported about a young Toronto chef who is getting a lot of attention for his pop-up dining event.

Since October 2020, Keanu Francisco has been running a once-a-month pop-up restaurant at Sara, a dining establishment in Toronto, where the Canadian Filipino works as a chef.

This Toronto restaurant doesn’t have the logo that is easily recognizable to many Filipinos.

It’s the image of a banga (clay pot) cooking over flames shaped like the letters B and F. B and F stand for Barrio Fiesta, a dining institution in the Philippines.

I stand at the sidewalk of a tree-lined street in Victoria, British Columbia, looking up at an old wood frame house, wondering how to find the person I had come to see as I had left my cell phone at home and so could not call. A young girl, Caucasian, comes down the front steps with a bound, and I ask: “Excuse me, is there a Filipino family living in this house?” She tells me to go up a path to the left of the house and knock on the first door. 

 In a February 2020 post, Big 7 Travel, a popular international travel website, listed what it considers to be the best Filipino restaurants in Canada.

A total of 25 establishments made it to the site’s enumeration.