Maginhawa: The Eat Street

UPDATED! (Website information updated; Telephone numbers now included in list)

About a month ago, I wrote about our favorite restaurants along Maginhawa Street (the street where we live in Teacher’s Village) for Sunday Inquirer Magazine.

The next time we ate in Sancho, one of the restaurants featured, staff told me that the day the article came out, people flocked to the restaurant actually carrying a copy of the magazine wanting to try out the place. I did not expect that to happen and since then, I admit it’s been harder to get a table there around dinner time. My family and I ate there again recently and tried the paella (I wish I had tried this before because it deserves to be recommended!) as well as lengua with mashed potatoes and buttered veggies and callos. Yummy!

I’m just reposting a summary of the restaurants featured and what they’re ideal for as well as some photos that didn’t make it to the mag:

Tomato Kick - #55 Maginhawa Street

• Good for: snack, dinner, drinks/bar chow (closed on Sundays)
• Price range: P200-350 per person
• Favorite dishes: Seafood pesto pasta, Beef Fajitas, Seafood Salpicao, Gising-gising, cheesy bacon potato wedges, Salsa Pork
• Facebook: Tomato Kick
• Tel. No: 489.5503

Friuli Trattoria – #79-A Maginhawa Street

• Good for: lunch, snack, dinner, delivery
• Price range: P200-400 per person
• Favorite dishes: Margherita pizza, Tre Formaggi Pizza, Pasta Putanesca, After Eight chocolate mint cake
• Facebook: Friuli Trattoria
• Tel. No: 434.1416

Delish – #103 Maginhawa Street

• Good for: lunch, dinner, drinks/bar chow
• Price range: P150-400 per person
• Favorite dishes: Bagnet with laing (budget lunch meal), Binagoongan, Crispy hito, Baked Oysters with spinach, bacon and cheese
• Facebook: Delish Restaurant
• Tel. No: 355.5241

Sancho Churreira Manila – #122 Maginhawa Street

• Good for: lunch, merienda, coffee and dessert, dinner, drinks
• Price range: P 200-350 per person (for meals), P100 for coffee and cake
• Favorite dishes: Beef salpicao, Paella, churros con chocolate, cream puffs
• Facebook: Sancho Churreira Manila, Website (both not updated)
• Tel. No: 436.5539

Umbul Satu Cuisine – Unit A, #154 Maginhawa Street

• Good for: lunch, early dinner
• Price range: P150 – 400 per person
• Favorite dishes: Fried tofu, satti
• Facebook: USC Umbul Satu Cuisine
• Tel. No: 400-4045

Van Gogh is Bipolar – Unit H, #154 Maginhawa Street (inner courtyard)

• Good for: special occasions, tea after 10pm
• Price range: P500-1000 per person
• Favorite dishes: Pres. Clinton’s Meal (Van Gogh rice with grilled Aussie lamb chop), Courtney Love’s Drink of the Day
• Web: van gogh is bipolar
• Tel. No: 434.9417

Black Soup Cafe + Artspace – Unit G, #154 Maginhawa Street (inner courtyard)

• Good for: lunch, dinner
• Price range: P200-400 per dish
• Favorite dishes: Twice-cooked adobo, chicken with basil and cheese stuffing
• Facebook: Black Soup Cafe + Artspace
• Tel. No: 435.2549

Good Burgers – #162 Maginhawa Street

• Good for: snack, light lunch, delivery
• Price range: P150-200 per person
• Favorite dishes: Margherita Burger, Bacon Mozza Melt Burger
• Facebook: Good Burgers
• Tel. No: 435.4663

Also mentioned were Pino Resto Bar (originally on Maginhawa but moved to 39 Malingap St.) and Chef Tatung (17 Matipid St.). If I was not limited by the required word count, I would have also liked to include Kiss the Cook (fine dining with a twist), Alfakhr’s (very affordable kebabs and keema), The Grill Pit (a shisha bar that serves kebabs)  and Ate Fe’s Kitchen (a carinderia that serves lechon kawali good for 2 people at only P90).

There are still a few restaurants that I have yet to try like Cafe Quezon, Gayuma ni Maria and Ted P.’s.  Will probably collect more material for part 2 of this post.

What can I say, there really are a lot of good eating places on our street! For the original article, check out the link: Maginhawa’s Eat Factor. (March 20, 2011 issue)

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