The Best Suckling Pig 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 (roast pork) in the country.
It is so good that its rich and wealthy residents order it, fly it and enjoy it in Manila. This is no surprise because the entire pig is slowly roasted over an even layer of open charcoal to ensure it is completely browned when ready. Its shiny skin is fantastically crisp. Nearby people hear the crunch when you bite into it.
Lechon Cebu at Rico’s Lechon is prepared with green onions, local sea salt, organic lemongrass, peppers, and other house-grown herbs and spices, giving it a complete flavor in itself that requires no gravy or sauce, a difference from the traditional Filipino suckling pig.
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 Century Plaza Shopping Center on Calle Juana Osmeña, after all, it has been serving this and satisfying customers for the last 20 years. Its amazing taste and flavor cannot be denied. It’s crisp and crunchy on the outside and cotton-soft on the inside, almost melts in your mouth.
Tuna pangasius at STK Ta Bai at Paolito’s Seafood House
While serving various types of seafood dishes, Paolito’s Seafood House on Orchid Street in Cebu is really famous for its Tuna Panga (grilled tuna jaw). It is served directly from the coal pit still smoking 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. In addition to enjoying the culinary variety of the restaurant, there is its kind of old-fashioned atmosphere that comes from this old ancestral home converted into a favorite place to eat.
Abuhan Dos Restaurant and its memorable Pochero
With 3 branches to its name in Cebu, Abuhan Dos restaurant makes itself accessible for many customers to enjoy the dish for which they have become famous: Pochero. Pochero is a pork stew of Spanish origin. It is cooked with Spanish sausages, lots of chopped onions and tomatoes, vegetables, special plantains, fried sweet potatoes, chickpeas and a little pepper. Abuhan dos restaurant gives it its magic touch and you have a great dish that everyone loves.