Southbank Café + Lounge – Alabang
A Melbourne-inspired café-lounge in Alabang that turns into a serious cocktail bar after dark, with a 36-drink list and...
Philippines
Manila's best bars sit mostly in Makati, around Legazpi Village and Poblacion, with more in Bonifacio Global City. The city has a strong tradition of speakeasies and bartender-led bars, several of them on the Asia's 50 Best Bars list, and drinks often feature Filipino ingredients such as calamansi, ube and local rum.
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LIT
A Japanese whisky bar in Serendra with charred sho sugi ban walls, a deep Japanese spirits list and whisky-led cocktails.
The Grasshopper Bar
An ingredient-forward Legazpi Village bar from award-winning bartenders, building cocktails on overlooked Filipino produce...
Big Fuzz
Behind a red door above Little Tokyo, a vinyl-spinning cocktail bar that feels like a friend's apartment, Tatler's...
The Back Room – Shangri-La The Fort
Shangri-La The Fort's 1920s-style speakeasy, with a hidden drinks lab producing its own Bee's Knees gin from Philippine...
The Blind Pig
Manila's first speakeasy, opened in 2011 in the mould of New York's Milk & Honey: dim, jazzy and devoted to classic...
The Spirits Library
A Poblacion bar lined with spirits, vintage cocktail books and antique glassware, with live blues and jazz and a rare-bottle...
Problem Child
From the Southbank team, a stainless-steel cocktail bar whose whole menu is reborn every three months around a single colour.
The Curator Coffee & Cocktails
Third-wave café by day and cocktail bar by night in Legazpi Village, with drinks named after people the team would like to...