Cebu, PhilippinesA market-style seafood restaurant where you select your fish, prawns, crabs, and squid from an iced display and choose your cooking method. The butter-garlic crab and the crispy tuna jaw are standout dishes - the name means "fresh" in Cebuano and the promise is rigorously kept.
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The original Cebuano-style lechon (roast pig) restaurant run by the family of the legendary Rico's Lechon, serving the most flavorful suckling pig in a city that takes its roast pig very seriously. The lechon cebu with crispy skin and aromatic herb stuffing of lemongrass and tamarind leaves is irreplaceable.
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Cebu's most celebrated fine dining restaurant by acclaimed chef Jason Hyatt, serving contemporary cuisine using the finest Cebuano and Visayan ingredients. The tasting menu changes with the seasons and is one of the most sophisticated dining experiences in the Philippines outside Manila.
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A magical floating restaurant on stilts over a mangrove lagoon in Cordova, serving excellent Filipino seafood and grilled dishes while surrounded by mangrove trees and fireflies at night. Lantaw is a 45-minute drive from Cebu City but worth every minute for the extraordinary experience of dining over water.